Lithium could be key to turning Arkansas oil patch into a battery boomtown

EL DORADO, Ark. — Oil powered the last century, with some of it pulled from the ground in Arkansas, but in today's cleaner and greener times, batteries are going to power our lives.

There is a global push to find the chemicals that go into those batteries, mainly lithium. The mineral for the most part is mined from distant parts of the world and refined into devices in China.

That creates a future threat to energy independence, similar to what the U.S. faced for years with Middle Eastern oil.
Enter Standard Lithium, Ltd. and its plan to pump it from the ground right here in Arkansas.

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Where there is bromine there is usually lithium, And there is a lot of bromine plants in south Arkansas