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Estelle Gold and Critical Minerals Project — integrated antimony supply chain

Estelle Project in Alaska; Port MacKenzie

prj-us-estelle-antimony

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What does the record establish?

The underlying Estelle development also contains gold; this record represents the antimony supply-chain undertaking funded by the DPA award.

Financial standing

1 directly linked instruments. Recorded financial states: Contracted. A commitment, a payment and a project cost remain separate.

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Legal and policy context

1 parent policy records; 0 project designations. Designation confers standing, not finance. Material and stage overlaps with controls do not establish a restriction on this project.

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Industrial evidence

No source-reviewed project milestone is published in this corpus. Financing records may still contain attributed activity reports; this gap does not establish inactivity.

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Financial evidence and chronology

Each instrument keeps its own financial history. These dates describe financial states, not construction or production. Amounts are the current recorded terms, not historical amounts at every date below.

Grant · U.S. Department of War$43.4 million · Contracted · Commitment
Provider organizations
U.S. Department of Defense
Recipient
Alaska Range Resources, LLCAlaska Range Resources, LLC
Legal authority as stated
Defense Production Act Title III

  1. · Decided

    The Department announced the DPA Title III award on 30 September 2025.

    U.S. Department of War

  2. · Contracted

    Nova's filed half-year report describes a 24-month firm-fixed-price project sub-agreement awarded on 1 October 2025.

    Nova Minerals Limited / U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR)

Source-stated terms

The $43.4M award spans extraction, concentration and refining; no source allocates the amount by stage, so the full figure is never assigned separately to any one stage.

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Capital stack

One layer per value role. Only committed public money, and joint-vehicle money apart from it, is summed, per currency; everything else is listed. There is no total across layers.

Public commitments

1 row · summed per currency

Committed to a recipient by a government or public enterprise, at the status each row states. A contracted, partially disbursed or disbursed row is binding because an agreement is executed; payment is tracked separately by status. A contracted row need not mean funds are obligated or paid, and a partially disbursed row is not fully paid. Summed per currency and per instrument, never across either; a part is never added to its package.

USD

Grant1 row

Binding

Stated exactly
43.4 million

1 counted

US1 Oct 2025

Alaska Range Resources, LLC

USD43.4 million

Estelle Gold and Critical Minerals Project — integrated antimony supply chain

CommitmentGrantPublicContractedMining · Processing · Refining

Source-reviewed industrial observations

No source-reviewed project milestone is published for this undertaking. Any financing-row activity reports below remain attributed observations, not independently reviewed project milestones. Missing evidence does not establish inactivity.

Policy context

These records directly parent the project's finance or designation entries. Their presence does not establish a causal effect on industrial activity.

Control clauses on the same materials and stages

Clauses whose covered items share a material and a supply-chain stage with this project, with their legal status on 3 Nov 2026. An overlap of items, not a finding that the project is affected.

CNExport licensing · Item 1(1)MOFCOM/GACC Announcement No. 33 (2024)Mining · Refining · ProcessingIn force

Record

Sponsors
Alaska Range Resources, LLCCompany
Location
Estelle Project in AlaskaUSPort MacKenzieUS
Stages
Mining, Processing, Refining
Materials
AntimonyAlso names: goldIncludes untracked materials
Programmes
None recorded
Latest financing-row activity report
No physical status recorded

What remains unknown

Gaps describe the available SMPT record. They do not establish that an activity did not occur.

  • 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.

Evidence

Every project fact names the source that states it.

  1. Department of War Awards $43.4 Million to Further On-Shore Antimony Trisulfide Production

    U.S. Department of War

    Fields supported
    Name · Supply-chain stages · Materials · Location
    Evidence level
    Explicit
    Location in document
    Award scope paragraphs
    Qualification
    The award covers stibnite extraction, concentration and refining at the Estelle/Stibium initiative.
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  2. Nova Minerals Limited — Half-Year Financial Report and Review of Operations

    Nova Minerals Limited / U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR)

    Fields supported
    Sponsors · Location · Supply-chain stages · Materials
    Evidence level
    Explicit
    Location in document
    U.S. Department of War Grant; Refinery & Equipment Procurement
    Qualification
    The filing identifies ARR as the award recipient and Port MacKenzie as the proposed antimony refinery location.
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