Investments focused on construction of enabling and supporting infrastructure needed to unlock critical minerals mining operations and exploration.
The CIB’s Critical Minerals investments will facilitate the construction of enabling and supporting infrastructure like access roads, clean power generation and transmission along with wastewater management facilities in remote areas of Canada. The investments would unlock critical mineral development and support economic development.
Our investments will be designed to address risks which impact the ability of mining companies to raise sufficient pre-mine construction financing.
Benefits of CIB involvement
The low-cost investments are designed to address risks that weigh on the ability to raise sufficient pre-mine construction financing.
Fast facts
- Collaborate with government, Indigenous partners, private investors to build enabling infrastructure
- Address challenges companies face raising sufficient project financing
- Help Canada become one of the world’s leading producers of critical minerals