Standard Lithium commissions North America's first commercial-scale DLE plant
The plant processed and reinjected over 17 million gallons (64.5 million liters) of Smackover brine
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The plant processed and reinjected over 17 million gallons (64.5 million liters) of Smackover brine
We have previously described 2024 as the “get ready” year for the lithium industry in Columbia County and this has been the case so far. The general public doesn’t see
Washington's drive to make the United States a major global lithium producer is being held back by a confusing mix of state regulations that are deterring developers and hampering efforts to break...
American Lithium Laws: Across Texas, Louisiana and other mineral-rich states, it's unclear who owns the millions of metric tons of lithium locked in salty brines underneath U.S. soils, how the battery metal should be valued by regulators and who ultimately should pay to process it into a form usable by manufacturers.
Companies in the U.S. are ready to begin extracting lithium from beneath the ground, but the jumbled intersection of state and federal law has made the legality of doing so murky.