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Canada announces second round of Critical Minerals Production Alliance partnerships and investments

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Summary

Natural Resources Canada announced the second round of Critical Minerals Production Alliance partnerships and investments. For tracked rare-earths support, the backgrounder identifies a conditionally approved investment of up to C$9.1 million through the Global Partnerships Initiative for Cyclic Materials' Kingston Centre of Excellence, alongside the recent US$25 million Canada Growth Fund equity investment.

Analytical significance

Shows Canada's rare-earth recycling policy layering conditional programme funding on top of an earlier public-equity investment at the same commercial-scale Kingston undertaking. The conditional approval is kept distinct from binding or disbursed support.

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Affected materials

Rare earth elements (grouped)稀土元素

Related events

Events touching the same materials.

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Canada secures 30 new critical minerals partnerships and unlocks $12.1 billion in mining project capital

Primary source

Natural Resources Canada

OfficialenPublished 2 Mar 2026Accessed 2 Oct 2026

NRCan backgrounder for the second round of Critical Minerals Production Alliance partnerships. For Cyclic Materials, it states that the Kingston rare-earths recycling Centre of Excellence had a conditionally approved investment of up to C$9.1 million through the Global Partnerships Initiative and separately cites the recent US$25 million Canada Growth Fund equity investment.

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https://www.canada.ca/en/natural-resources-canada/news/2026/03/canada-secures-30-new-critical-minerals-partnerships-and-unlocks-121-billion-in-mining-project-capital.html

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Strategic Materials Policy Tracker. "Canada announces second round of Critical Minerals Production Alliance partnerships and investments." Record evt-ca-g7-cmpa-2026, 2026-03-02. https://strategic-materials-policy-tracker.vercel.app/events/evt-ca-g7-cmpa-2026

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