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    "notice": "Curated corpus revision, not source freshness or historical known-as-of coverage. Financial histories retain their own status dates."
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    "Reviewed observations establish only their stated scope. They do not by themselves establish sustained construction, capacity achieved, commercial output or a financing payout.",
    "Some directly linked instruments have no stated amount. A missing value is not zero.",
    "The project registry does not identify a sponsor organization. Providers and recipients are recorded separately.",
    "Historical amount review is incomplete. Current amounts cannot be read as a time series of earlier commitments.",
    "Structural links and shared materials do not demonstrate that a government measure caused an industrial outcome."
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      "url": "https://news.alcoa.com/press-releases/press-release-details/2026/Australia-Japan-the-United-States-and-Alcoa-Break-Ground-on-Gallium-Project-in-Western-Australia/default.aspx",
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      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "publishedOn": "2026-08-24",
      "accessedOn": "2026-10-02"
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    {
      "id": "src-legislation-au-cmpti-2025",
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      "language": "en",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
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      "accessedOn": "2026-08-12"
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    {
      "id": "src-pm-us-au-framework-2025",
      "title": "Historic critical minerals framework signed by President Trump and Prime Minister Albanese",
      "publisher": "Prime Minister of Australia",
      "url": "https://www.pm.gov.au/media/historic-critical-minerals-framework-signed-president-trump-and-prime-minister-albanese",
      "language": "en",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "publishedOn": "2025-10-21",
      "accessedOn": "2026-09-23"
    },
    {
      "id": "src-wh-us-au-framework-2025",
      "title": "United States-Australia Framework For Securing of Supply in the Mining and Processing of Critical Minerals and Rare Earths",
      "publisher": "The White House",
      "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/10/united-states-australia-framework-for-securing-of-supply-in-the-mining-and-processing-of-critical-minerals-and-rare-earths/",
      "language": "en",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "publishedOn": "2025-10-20",
      "accessedOn": "2026-09-23"
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  "limitations": [
    "Policy contexts here parent existing finance or designation records; a shared material or date never creates a causal edge.",
    "Coannounced controls are announcement siblings only, not project-specific restrictions or effects.",
    "Direct project attribution and nonallocative association are different. No individual monetary allocation, financial sum or payment conclusion is authorized.",
    "Financing statuses describe the current corpus revision. Legacy implementation observations require scoped review and are not project-native milestones.",
    "A milestone's event/target date, publication/access horizon and reviewer date are separate. A planned target is not automatically occurred.",
    "An absent reviewed milestone means no approved entry in SMPT, not that the facility is inactive or failed.",
    "Amounts retain current source-stated terms, original currency and exact decimal strings. This packet computes no historical financial totals or project-wide monetary allocation.",
    "Published source review does not establish independent on-site verification. Source, financial-status, occurrence, target and review dates remain distinct."
  ]
}