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  "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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        "locator": "Saltworks investment paragraph",
        "note": "The source does not give a formal project title; the project name is a concise normalization of its stated purpose: concentration and conversion of Canadian lithium brine into lithium battery precursors. NRCan frames the two awards as midstream lithium processing in British Columbia."
      }
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    "notes": null
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          "note": "\"Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) is providing $4.9 million to Cyclic Materials\""
        }
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        "basisLabel": null
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          "note": "The release published 11 July says the Minister announced the investments 'yesterday'. No matching CMRDD agreement record for this exact C$4,937,500 award was located in the reviewed public disclosures, so the row is not promoted beyond announced."
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          "date": "2024-07-11",
          "sourceId": "src-nrcan-lithium-processing-2024",
          "note": "The release states the investment will accelerate concentration and conversion of Canadian lithium brine using technologies already developed and tested by Saltworks; no construction/operational milestone is stated."
        }
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          "note": "Currency is read from the Canadian federal issuer context."
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      "notes": "Exact announced amount from the NRCan release. The source establishes a government investment and project purpose but not a binding agreement or payment; absent a matching agreement disclosure, financial standing remains announced."
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  "designations": [],
  "nativeMilestones": [],
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      "id": "evt-ca-nrcan-lithium-processing-2024",
      "relationship": "finance_or_designation_parent",
      "jurisdiction": "canada",
      "issuingBody": "Natural Resources Canada",
      "titleEn": "Government of Canada Invests Over $9 Million to Enable Made-in-Canada Lithium Battery Supply Chain in British Columbia",
      "titleOriginal": "Government of Canada Invests Over $9 Million to Enable Made-in-Canada Lithium Battery Supply Chain in British Columbia",
      "documentNumber": null,
      "date": "2024-07-11",
      "policyStatus": "active",
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        "src-nrcan-lithium-processing-2024",
        "src-canada-grant-noram-cmrdd-2024"
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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."
  ],
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    {
      "id": "src-canada-grant-noram-cmrdd-2024",
      "title": "Grants and Contributions — ELECTROLYSIS FOR LITHIUM PRODUCTION AND RECYCLING",
      "publisher": "Government of Canada Open Government",
      "url": "https://search.open.canada.ca/grants/record/nrcan-rncan%2C115-2024-2025-Q2-15527%2Ccurrent",
      "language": "en",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "publishedOn": null,
      "accessedOn": "2026-10-07"
    },
    {
      "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-lithium-processing-2024",
      "title": "Government of Canada Invests Over $9 Million to Enable Made-in-Canada Lithium Battery Supply Chain in British Columbia",
      "publisher": "Natural Resources Canada",
      "url": "https://www.canada.ca/en/natural-resources-canada/news/2024/07/government-of-canada-invests-over-9-million-to-enable-made-in-canada-lithium-battery-supply-chain-in-british-columbia.html",
      "language": "en",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "publishedOn": "2024-07-11",
      "accessedOn": "2026-10-07"
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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."
  ]
}