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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

The Candian’s company, Standard Lithium Ltd., broke ground last week on a pilot plant in El Dorado, a key step toward a unique vision of pulling battery-grade lithium from a saltwater sea beneath south Arkansas. read more >

Standard Lithium Ltd., which wants to mine battery-grade lithium from the salty water beneath south Arkansas, has discovered "robust" amounts of the element in samples from the Smackover Formation. read more >

Standard Lithium Ltd., the Canadian company hoping to build a test facility to affirm its new method for extracting battery-grade lithium from brine, reports finding strong concentrations of the element in samples taken from two south Arkansas wells read more >