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  "project": {
    "id": "prj-us-mp-independence-expansion",
    "name": "Independence Facility capacity expansion",
    "sponsorOrgIds": [
      "org-mp-materials"
    ],
    "locations": [
      {
        "countryCode": "US",
        "subnational": "Texas",
        "asStated": "the Company’s Independence Facility located in Fort Worth, Texas"
      }
    ],
    "stages": [
      "component_manufacturing"
    ],
    "materialIds": [
      "ndfeb-magnets"
    ],
    "materialAttribution": "tracked_only",
    "untrackedMaterialsAsStated": [],
    "evidence": [
      {
        "sourceId": "src-dod-mp-transaction-agreement-2025",
        "supports": [
          "name",
          "sponsors",
          "location",
          "stages",
          "materials"
        ],
        "evidence": "explicit",
        "locator": "Item 1.01, Transaction Agreement definitions and Facility Improvements",
        "note": "The filing defines the Independence Facility in Fort Worth, Texas and requires expansion of its rare-earth metal, alloy and permanent-magnet manufacturing capacity to a projected 3,000 tons of magnets annually."
      }
    ],
    "notes": "The $600 million company-cash undertaking also supports other MP projects and is associated with this project without a project-specific allocation."
  },
  "governments": [],
  "providerOrgIds": [],
  "layers": [],
  "associatedRowIds": [
    "fin-us-dod-mp-2025-company-cash"
  ],
  "designationIds": [],
  "latestImplementation": null,
  "reviewedProjectMilestones": [],
  "reviewedMilestoneSources": [],
  "reviewedMilestoneEvidenceBasis": "human-reviewed original publisher claim; not independent on-site or financial verification",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "src-dod-mp-transaction-agreement-2025",
      "title": "MP Materials Corp., Form 8-K (Transaction Agreement with the Department of Defense)",
      "publisher": "MP Materials Corp. / U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR)",
      "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1801368/000119312525157310/d43796d8k.htm",
      "language": "en",
      "datePublished": "2025-07-10",
      "dateAccessed": "2026-10-03",
      "sourceType": "other",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "notes": "The binding disclosure of the DoD deal terms, filed with the SEC. Read in full 2026-08-12 (EDGAR returns 403 without a declared user agent). Confirms verbatim: the Transaction Agreement was entered into on 9 July 2025 (the 'Effective Date'); a commitment for a $150 million loan to support expansion of heavy rare earth separation, to be extended by DoD within 30 days following closing; a quarterly payment per kilogram of NdPr equal to the shortfall between $110 per kg and the benchmark quarterly average price; a 10-year offtake agreement for magnet production from the 10X Facility; and a warrant issued to DoD. Source type 'other' follows the convention used for src-mp-dod-2025 (company document rather than a government instrument), but this is the filed agreement disclosure rather than a press release. Note the event is dated 2025-07-10, the announcement date, while the agreement's effective date is 2025-07-09. Rebuilt 2026-08-12 after the record was lost to an accidental working-tree revert; re-verified against the filing. Full original filing reread on 3 October 2026 for the 10X lifecycle review; the reporting date is not treated as a construction commencement date."
    }
  ]
}