A trove of lithium, a raw material critical for electric vehicle batteries, was found in Arkansas, researchers said.
A combination of water testing and machine learning by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and the Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment’s Office of the State Geologist discovered that an estimated 5 to 19 million tons of lithium reserves are located beneath southwestern Arkansas, it was announced in a Monday press release.
The lithium was found in a geological area known as the Smackover Formation, a relic of an ancient sea that left an extensive, porous, and permeable limestone geologic unit that extends under parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida.
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