Natural Resources Canada · Contribution program
Critical Minerals Geoscience And Data
Enhance the quality and availability of data and digital technologies to support geoscience and mapping that will accelerate the efficient and effective development of Canadian critical mineral value chains.
- Total value
- $7.1M
- Agreements
- 18
- Mar 2024 to Mar 2026
- Median agreement
- $496K
- Typical range
- $257K–$500K
- the middle half of agreements
Federal grants and contributions, agreements starting Jan 2006 to Oct 2026, each counted once at its latest amended value. Source: Treasury Board proactive disclosure, published October 11, 2026.
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Who got it
Organizations with the most funding under this program.
By year
Agreements by the year they started.
| Year | Agreements | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14 | $5.5M |
| 2025 | 2 | $558K |
| 2026 | 2 | $1M |
By province
| Province or territory | Agreements | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 4 | $2M |
| British Columbia | 4 | $2M |
| Nova Scotia | 3 | $1.1M |
| Northwest Territories | 2 | $898K |
| Saskatchewan | 3 | $845K |
| New Brunswick | 2 | $263K |
By type of recipient
As the department classified the recipient.
| Recipient type | Agreements | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Government | 18 | $7.1M |
Latest agreements
| Start | Recipient | What for | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2026 | Geological Survey Of Newfoundland And Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador hyperspectral drill core scanningContribution | $500,000 |
| Mar 2026 | Geological Survey Of Newfoundland And Labrador | Critical Mineral Potential of the Nain Plutonic Suite: Data to Advance Predictive Modeling in LabradorContribution | $500,000 |
| Apr 2025 | Saskatchewan Ministry Of Energy And Resources | Saskatchewan Regional Till Geochemistry ProjectContribution | $461,250 |
| Mar 2025 | Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources | Graphite in Support of Battery Value ChainsContribution | $97,000 |
| Nov 2024 | Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources and Renewables | Hollistically Modelling the Critical Minerals Potential of Nova ScotiaContribution | $499,880 |
| Nov 2024 | Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources and Renewables | Upstream inventories for downstream applicationsContribution | $500,000 |
| Sep 2024 | Government of Newfoundland and Labrador | High-resolution airborne geophysics of the Nain Plutonic Suite, Northern LabradorContribution | $500,000 |
| Sep 2024 | Government of Newfoundland and Labrador | AIRBORNE GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY TO TARGET RARE-EARTH MINERALIZATION IN SOUTHEASTERN LABRADORContribution | $500,000 |
| Jul 2024 | Province of New Brunswick | Extreme fractionation of late Silurian-Early Devonian Peralkaline intrusions in Northern ApalachiansContribution | $155,000 |
| Jul 2024 | New Brunswick Department Of Natural Resources And Energy Development | ANALYSIS OF ARCHIVED TILL SAMPLES FOR LITHIUM AND OTHER CRITICAL ELEMENTS, SOUTHWESTERN AND WEST-CENTRAL NEW BRUNSWICKContribution | $108,300 |
| Jul 2024 | Province of British Columbia | Intrusive History - Cordilleran OrogenContribution | $483,300 |
| Jul 2024 | Province of British Columbia | Evaluating drainage sediments for carbonatite-hosted critical indicator mineralsContribution | $495,000 |
| Jul 2024 | Province of British Columbia | Enhancing the development of British Columbia's Drill hole DatabaseContribution | $500,000 |
| Jul 2024 | Province of British Columbia | Development of a geoscience data repository for the Canadian CordilleraContribution | $500,000 |
| May 2024 | Government of the Northwest Territories | Critical Metal potential of the Selwyn sedimentary basinContribution | $399,797 |
| May 2024 | Government Of The Northwest Terrtitories | Critical mineral-bearing pegmatites of the Slave Geological ProvinceContribution | $497,925 |
| Mar 2024 | The Saskatchewan Research Council | SENSOR-RESPONSE CHARACTERISTICS OF CRITICAL MINERALSContribution | $174,036 |
| Mar 2024 | The Saskatchewan Research Council | SENSOR-RESPONSE CHARACTERISTICS OF CRITICAL MINERALSContribution | $209,330 |