Historically, lithium has been produced using two approaches: hard rock mining of spodumene deposits, as seen at the ...

The Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission has rescheduled a crucial hearing on the lithium royalties application that has generated contention between potential industry players and mineral rights owners to ...

LEWISVILLE, Ark., Oct. 30, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Smackover Lithium, a 55:45 owned Joint Venture (“JV”) between Standard Lithium Ltd. (“Standard Lithium” or ...

Exxon Mobil, Chevron and Occidental Petroleum are betting big on emerging technologies to extract lithium from drilling wastes and salt flats. Since oil and gas drilling began nearly 150 years ago, ...

A new analysis suggests that if it could be extracted with complete efficiency, lithium from the wastewater of Marcellus shale gas wells could supply up to 40% of the country's demand. Most batteries ...

RUNNING ON LITHIUM: Electric vehicles at a charging station. After South Arkansas landowners raised several legal objections to what they said was a lowball offer on royalty rates, the lithium ...

South Arkansas landowners will once again face off with major multinational companies seeking to extract lithium-rich brine from the Smackover Basin on Friday as the two sides continue to spar over ...

Mining authorization for lithium and royalties are on the agenda for the next state Oil and Gas Commission meeting in December. Energy giant Exxon Mobil and Canadian company Standard Lithium need ...

The days of gas-guzzling cars may come to an end before we run out of oil if technologies such as 500-mile-per-charge lithium-air batteries become a real and affordable option. A company that ...