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Canada Funds First Phosphate & Incentivizes Domestic Phosphate Production with CEO John Passalacqua
Bill Powers interviews First Phosphate CEO John Passalacqua following PDAC, where the company received a non-repayable C$16.7M grant and highlighted government support for critical mineral supply chains. Passalacqua says the funding de-risks the company through feasibility, permitting, and toward a final investment decision, with drilling nearly complete and a feasibility study targeted for December 2026. He explains LFP batteries are largely phosphate-based and that First Phosphate’s high-purity igneous phosphate resource in Quebec is rare and advantaged by proximity to infrastructure and a…
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