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Follow one registered original document back to the published records that cite it. Each link below is an explicit source reference, not an association inferred from a shared event, company, material or project.

Backgrounder: Government of Canada invests to unlock Canada’s critical minerals advantage

Primary source

Natural Resources Canada

OfficialenPublished 3 Mar 2026Accessed 23 Sep 2026

NRCan backgrounder listing each of the 22 projects announced on 3 March 2026 at PDAC (up to $165.2 million across five programmes), with recipient, location, funding amount and description. Read in full in a browser on 2026-09-23. Only projects naming a tracked material are recorded; the $165.2 million total is not, because most of it funds untracked minerals.

Open original document ↗

https://www.canada.ca/en/natural-resources-canada/news/2026/03/backgrounder-government-of-canada-invests-to-unlock-canadas-critical-minerals-advantage.html

14 directly citing records. This is a snapshot of the curated public corpus, not a live document monitor or proof that every sentence in the linked document supports every aspect of a record. Status and implementation observations are distinct from executed agreements, cash disbursements and verified physical milestones. Private research and pending editor reviews are excluded.

Policy events

1 distinct published record with an explicit reference to this source.

  1. Government of Canada invests to unlock Canada’s critical minerals advantage (PDAC 2026 funding announcement)

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    • Cited policy event

Financial instruments

5 distinct published records with an explicit reference to this source.

  1. Battery-Grade Graphite: A Canadian Low-GHG Solution From Regolith Resources

    fin-ca-pdac-2026-ggt-eip

    • Field evidence: amount
    • Field evidence: capital_source
    • Field evidence: instrument
    • Field evidence: materials
    • Field evidence: project
    • Field evidence: provider
    • Field evidence: recipient
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    • Field evidence: status
    • Field evidence: value_role
    • Financial status report
  2. Geochronology and Petrogenesis of Granitoids and Related Critical Mineral Systems in New Brunswick

    fin-ca-pdac-2026-nb-granitoids-cmgd

    • Field evidence: amount
    • Field evidence: capital_source
    • Field evidence: instrument
    • Field evidence: location
    • Field evidence: materials
    • Field evidence: project
    • Field evidence: provider
    • Field evidence: recipient
    • Field evidence: stages
    • Field evidence: status
    • Field evidence: value_role
    • Financial status report
  3. Critical Mineral Potential of the Maritimes Basin in Eastern New Brunswick

    fin-ca-pdac-2026-nb-maritimes-basin-cmgd

    • Field evidence: amount
    • Field evidence: capital_source
    • Field evidence: instrument
    • Field evidence: location
    • Field evidence: materials
    • Field evidence: project
    • Field evidence: provider
    • Field evidence: recipient
    • Field evidence: stages
    • Field evidence: status
    • Field evidence: value_role
    • Financial status report
  4. Graphite in Support of Battery Value Chains

    fin-ca-pdac-2026-ns-graphite-cmgd

    • Field evidence: amount
    • Field evidence: capital_source
    • Field evidence: instrument
    • Field evidence: location
    • Field evidence: materials
    • Field evidence: project
    • Field evidence: provider
    • Field evidence: recipient
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    • Field evidence: status
    • Field evidence: value_role
    • Financial status report
  5. Wicheeda REE Clean Energy and Transportation Infrastructure Project

    fin-ca-pdac-2026-wicheeda-flmf

    • Field evidence: amount
    • Field evidence: capital_source
    • Field evidence: instrument
    • Field evidence: materials
    • Field evidence: project
    • Field evidence: provider
    • Field evidence: recipient
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    • Field evidence: status
    • Field evidence: value_role
    • Financial status report

Projects

5 distinct published records with an explicit reference to this source.

  1. Geochronology and Petrogenesis of Granitoids and Related Critical Mineral Systems in New Brunswick

    prj-ca-cmgd-nb-granitoids

    • Field evidence: location
    • Field evidence: materials
    • Field evidence: name
    • Field evidence: sponsors
    • Field evidence: stages
  2. Critical Mineral Potential of the Maritimes Basin in Eastern New Brunswick

    prj-ca-cmgd-nb-maritimes-basin

    • Field evidence: location
    • Field evidence: materials
    • Field evidence: name
    • Field evidence: sponsors
    • Field evidence: stages
  3. Graphite in Support of Battery Value Chains

    prj-ca-cmgd-ns-graphite-battery-value-chains

    • Field evidence: location
    • Field evidence: materials
    • Field evidence: name
    • Field evidence: sponsors
    • Field evidence: stages
  4. Battery-Grade Graphite: A Canadian Low-GHG Solution From Regolith Resources

    prj-ca-ggt-regolith-graphite

    • Field evidence: location
    • Field evidence: materials
    • Field evidence: name
    • Field evidence: sponsors
    • Field evidence: stages
  5. Wicheeda Rare Earth Elements Project

    prj-ca-wicheeda

    • Field evidence: location
    • Field evidence: materials
    • Field evidence: name
    • Field evidence: sponsors
    • Field evidence: stages

Organizations

3 distinct published records with an explicit reference to this source.

  1. New Brunswick Geological Survey

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    • Field evidence: actor
    • Field evidence: country
    • Field evidence: kind
    • Field evidence: name
  2. Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources

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    • Field evidence: actor
    • Field evidence: country
    • Field evidence: kind
    • Field evidence: name
  3. Defense Metals Corp.

    org-defense-metals

    • Field evidence: kind
    • Field evidence: name

Only direct references in published events, field evidence, source-linked status histories, quotations, legal relationships, profiles and reviewed project milestones are shown. These links do not assign causality. See the source hierarchy and verification methodology.