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  "projectId": "prj-ca-ggt-regolith-graphite",
  "corpus": {
    "revision": "2026-11-03",
    "legalStatusCutoff": "2026-11-03",
    "view": "current_corpus_revision",
    "notice": "Curated corpus revision, not source freshness or historical known-as-of coverage. Financial histories retain their own status dates."
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    "name": "Battery-Grade Graphite: A Canadian Low-GHG Solution From Regolith Resources",
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      },
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      }
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        "sourceId": "src-nrcan-pdac-2026",
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        "locator": "Energy Innovation Program: Green Graphite Technologies entry",
        "note": null
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      {
        "sourceId": "src-nrcan-pdac-2026",
        "supports": [
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        "evidence": "ambiguous",
        "locator": "Energy Innovation Program: Green Graphite Technologies entry",
        "note": "\"upgrade near-surface graphite for use in lithium-ion batteries\", read as processing."
      },
      {
        "sourceId": "src-nrcan-regolith-eip-2025",
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          "sponsors",
          "location",
          "stages",
          "materials"
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        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Project profile: Lead Proponent, Partners, Location and Project Objectives",
        "note": "The current NRCan EIP profile confirms the project name, Green Graphite Technologies as lead proponent, Weaver Energy as partner, BC/ON locations and the high-purity graphite processing objective."
      },
      {
        "sourceId": "src-ggt-mississauga-demo-commissioning-20260811",
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        "evidence": "ambiguous",
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        "note": "GGT's official post identifies a Mississauga graphite-purification demonstration facility entering final-stage commissioning. This corroborates activity at the project's recorded Mississauga location, but the post does not use the Regolith project title."
      }
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          "evidence": "explicit",
          "locator": "Issuer; third and fourth paragraphs",
          "note": "\"Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) is providing $4.9 million to Cyclic Materials\""
        }
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      "evidence": [
        {
          "sourceId": "src-nrcan-cmrdd-2024",
          "supports": [
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          "note": null
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      "projectRelationship": "directly_attributable",
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        "basisNote": null,
        "basisLabel": null
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      "provider": "Natural Resources Canada (Energy Innovation Program)",
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        "org-green-graphite-technologies"
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          "date": "2026-03-03",
          "sourceId": "src-nrcan-pdac-2026",
          "note": "Announced at PDAC as part of \"up to $165.2 million for 22 Canadian projects\"."
        }
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          "status": "commissioning",
          "date": "2026-08-11",
          "sourceId": "src-ggt-mississauga-demo-commissioning-20260811",
          "note": "Green Graphite Technologies' official post, dated 11 August 2026 by LinkedIn's page metadata, says its Mississauga graphite purification demonstration facility is entering the final stages of commissioning. The Mississauga facility and graphite-purification process correspond to the Regolith project record; the post does not name the NRCan EIP award, disclose grant payment or establish commercial operation, so this is not coded as operational."
        }
      ],
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      "statedOutcomes": [],
      "relationships": [],
      "evidence": [
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          "sourceId": "src-nrcan-pdac-2026",
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            "project",
            "materials"
          ],
          "evidence": "explicit",
          "locator": "Energy Innovation Program: Green Graphite Technologies entry",
          "note": null
        },
        {
          "sourceId": "src-nrcan-pdac-2026",
          "supports": [
            "stages"
          ],
          "evidence": "ambiguous",
          "locator": "Energy Innovation Program: Green Graphite Technologies entry",
          "note": "Upgrading graphite for lithium-ion batteries, read as processing."
        },
        {
          "sourceId": "src-nrcan-regolith-eip-2025",
          "supports": [
            "amount",
            "provider",
            "recipient",
            "project"
          ],
          "evidence": "explicit",
          "locator": "Project profile: Status, Agreement Value, Project Total, Lead Proponent and Project Objectives",
          "note": "The current NRCan EIP profile names the project, Green Graphite Technologies, its C$4,750,000 agreement value and a C$12,262,850 project total. It lists the project as active but does not state agreement execution, disbursement or a payment date; the project total is not recoded as a public commitment or share."
        },
        {
          "sourceId": "src-ggt-mississauga-demo-commissioning-20260811",
          "supports": [
            "status"
          ],
          "evidence": "explicit",
          "locator": "Opening sentence",
          "note": "The recipient's official post explicitly places its Mississauga graphite-purification demonstration facility in final-stage commissioning. The post does not use the NRCan project title or identify grant funding, so no payment or commercial-operation status is inferred."
        }
      ],
      "notes": "NRCan's 3 March 2026 announcement records the C$4,750,000 EIP award as announced. Its current project profile lists the project as Active and gives a C$12,262,850 project total, but does not disclose a signed agreement date, disbursement or payment. On 11 August 2026, Green Graphite Technologies said its Mississauga graphite-purification demonstration facility was entering the final stages of commissioning. The location and process match the Regolith project record; the company post does not name the EIP award, so physical status is limited to commissioning and is not treated as grant payment, commercial operation or completion."
    }
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  "designations": [],
  "nativeMilestones": [],
  "policyContexts": [
    {
      "id": "evt-ca-nrcan-pdac-2026",
      "relationship": "finance_or_designation_parent",
      "jurisdiction": "canada",
      "issuingBody": "Natural Resources Canada",
      "titleEn": "Government of Canada invests to unlock Canada’s critical minerals advantage (PDAC 2026 funding announcement)",
      "titleOriginal": "Government of Canada invests to unlock Canada’s critical minerals advantage",
      "documentNumber": null,
      "date": "2026-03-03",
      "policyStatus": "active",
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        "src-nrcan-pdac-2026"
      ]
    }
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  "financePackageReferences": [],
  "unknowns": [
    "No project-native source-reviewed industrial milestone is published. Attributed activity in financing histories remains a separate evidence class; no exact milestone date or facility-wide conclusion is inferred.",
    "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."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "src-ggt-mississauga-demo-commissioning-20260811",
      "title": "Our Mississauga graphite purification demonstration facility is entering the final stages of commissioning.",
      "publisher": "Green Graphite Technologies Inc.",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/green-graphite-tech_our-mississauga-graphite-purification-activity-7492954053392457729-LMSP",
      "language": "en",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "publishedOn": "2026-08-11",
      "accessedOn": "2026-10-03"
    },
    {
      "id": "src-nrcan-cmrdd-2024",
      "title": "Government of Canada Supporting Critical Minerals Processing in Kingston",
      "publisher": "Natural Resources Canada",
      "url": "https://www.canada.ca/en/natural-resources-canada/news/2024/09/government-of-canada-supporting-critical-minerals-processing-in-kingston.html",
      "language": "en",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "publishedOn": "2024-09-04",
      "accessedOn": "2026-09-23"
    },
    {
      "id": "src-nrcan-pdac-2026",
      "title": "Backgrounder: Government of Canada invests to unlock Canada’s critical minerals advantage",
      "publisher": "Natural Resources Canada",
      "url": "https://www.canada.ca/en/natural-resources-canada/news/2026/03/backgrounder-government-of-canada-invests-to-unlock-canadas-critical-minerals-advantage.html",
      "language": "en",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "publishedOn": "2026-03-03",
      "accessedOn": "2026-09-23"
    },
    {
      "id": "src-nrcan-regolith-eip-2025",
      "title": "Battery-Grade Graphite: A Canadian Low-GHG Solution from Regolith Resources",
      "publisher": "Natural Resources Canada",
      "url": "https://natural-resources.canada.ca/funding-partnerships/energy-innovation-program/battery-grade-graphite-canadian-low-ghg-solution-regolith-resources",
      "language": "en",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "publishedOn": null,
      "accessedOn": "2026-10-03"
    }
  ],
  "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."
  ]
}
