LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — South Arkansas is the epicenter of a fast-developing lithium boom that will have a global impact—and it was all sparked by a company called Standard Lithium.
Lithium is critical to the modern world. Your phone, laptop, and the electric vehicles we see more and more of all need lithium batteries. And Arkansas is about to become the best source of lithium in America.
At the center of it all is Standard Lithium, the first company to prove that lithium could be directly extracted from the saltwater brine underneath southern Arkansas—the Smackover Formation aquifer…