Icon (Close Menu)

Logout

Andy Robinson

Manufacturing / Public Companies

Standard Lithium Names Longtime Koch Exec David Park as New CEO

Outgoing CEO Robert Mintak, who led the company’s move into Arkansas, will stay on as an adviser through August 2025. read more >
Energy / Manufacturing / Public Companies

Standard Lithium Boasts Test Plant Results Near El Dorado

The publicly traded Canadian company said two tests show that its lithium extraction process is "ready to scale." read more >
Energy

New Standard Well Yields High Concentrations of Lithium, Potash and Bromine

Standard Lithium says it has drilled a new brine well in the Smackover Formation of east Texas that broke its own record for lithium concentration. read more >
Energy / Public Companies

New Standard Lithium Well Produces Record Lithium Concentrations

The well in east Texas is the latest of the company's projects in the Smackover geological formation. read more >
Energy / Manufacturing / Public Companies

Standard Lithium Buys 118 Acres for $1.3B Plant

The company hopes to start construction on what it calls its South West Arkansas project sometime in 2025. read more >
Energy

Preliminary Study Foresees $1.27B Standard Lithium Project in Arkansas

Standard Lithium announces results from its preliminary study of the feasibility of a $1.27 billion lithium production project in southwest Arkansas. read more >
Energy / Public Companies

BNP Paribas to Handle Debt Financing for Standard Lithium Plant

BNP Paribas is the European Union’s leading bank and key player in international banking. read more >
Energy / Public Companies

Standard Lithium, Koch Affiliate in Deal to Speed Commercial Development

The deal, in which the companies will share data and together develop and commercialize lithium brine processing flow sheets for Standard’s use in the region, forges another bond with subsidiaries of Koch Industries of Wichita, a significant investor in the project. read more >
Energy / Public Companies

Standard Lithium Reports Key Results From Texas Drilling

Samples have yielded the highest confirmed levels of the element ever found in North American brine, the company said. read more >
Standard Lithium's drill rig at the well re-entry site in Lafayette County. The drill rig has since demobilized from the site after reaching a total measured depth of 8,940 feet, and has been replaced by a workover rig to complete perforations, final testing and sampling.
Energy / Public Companies / Transportation

Standard Lithium Begins Drilling in Lafayette County

The project is a key milestone for the Vancouver company and goes hand in hand with a project at a Lanxess bromine filtering operation in El Dorado. read more >
Robert Mintak, CEO of Standard Lithium Ltd.
Construction / Energy / Manufacturing

Standard Lithium Announces Hirings, Progress Toward El Dorado Plant

Two engineering experts with decades of experience managing energy and mining projects have joined the company. read more >
Lanxess, the German chemical multinational with major bromine production infrastructure in south Arkansas.
Energy / Manufacturing

Standard Lithium Delivers 2nd Test Plant to El Dorado

Standard Lithium Ltd. of Canada delivers a second modular lithium production test plant to the El Dorado site where it has been extracting ingredients for the lithium-ion battery market for well over a year. read more >
Robert Mintak, CEO of Standard Lithium Ltd.
Energy / Investments

Standard Lithium to Trade on NYSE American

A Canadian company making steady strides toward establishing a lithium extraction industry in south Arkansas passes another milestone, announcing approval to list its shares on the NYSE American exchange. read more >
Investments / Public Companies

Lithium Project Expands in Arkansas, With Murphy Oil Keeping Watch

While Standard Lithium expanding its reach for brine in South Arkansas, Murphy Oil Corp. is noting that it also has brine fields near El Dorado, but no active plans to exploit them. read more >
Standard Lithium Ltd. of Canada and Lanxess, based in Germany, have partnered to put a pilot plant at a Lanxess site near El Dorado to test extracting lithium from brine at a commercial scale. The plant is expected to be operational by October or November.
Manufacturing

Arkansas Lithium Passes Second Purification Test

The Canadian startup dedicated to creating a new lithium industry in Arkansas has proved a second method of purifying Arkansas-produced lithium chloride into high-quality lithium carbonate for the battery market. read more >
Robert Mintak, CEO of Standard Lithium Ltd.
Manufacturing

El Dorado Project Has Proved Itself, Standard Lithium Says

Standard Lithium LLC says it has proved that its technology can collect lithium from Arkansas’ underground brine and process it into better-than-battery grade lithium carbonate for the lithium-ion market. read more >
A Standard Lithium analytical chemist performs real-time tests on samples at the dedicated lab attached to the demonstration lithium extraction plant in El Dorado.
Construction

Lithium Projects Progress in South Arkansas

South Arkansas’ dreams for a high-tech lithium mining industry are looking more real this month, with a Canadian company starting designs for a large-scale commercial extraction plant. read more >
Lanxess, a big bromine producer in south Arkansas, has hooked its pipes up to a test plant of Standard Lithium, which hopes to mine the battery ingredient from underground brine.
Construction / Energy / Health Care

Lithium Project in El Dorado Defies PandemicLock Icon

After six months locked down in Canada, Robert Mintak is itching to fly south to see firsthand how Standard Lithium Ltd.’s pilot plant is doing drawing lithium from Arkansas’ underground brine. read more >
Robert Mintak
Energy / Manufacturing

Lithium Test Plant in El Dorado Operating 24/7

A Canadian company working to mine battery-grade lithium from the underground saltwaters of south Arkansas reports that its $10 million testing plant near El Dorado is fully operational. read more >
Standard Lithium Ltd. of Canada and Lanxess, based in Germany, have partnered to put a pilot plant at a Lanxess site near El Dorado to test extracting lithium from brine at a commercial scale. The plant is expected to be operational by October or November.
Construction / Energy / Manufacturing

Lithium Project Getting Feet Wet Near El DoradoLock Icon

With a potential new lithium industry coming together in south Arkansas, Robert Mintak is putting up rather than shutting up. Standard Lithium's $10 million test plant, if successful, could pave the way to a nearly half-billion-dollar permanent operation pulling battery-grade lithium from the brine stream Lanxess AG is already mining for bromine. read more >