Lithium is often referred to as the "white gold" of the energy transition—or, as the USGS put it, "hidden treasure"—because of its crucial role in battery technology that will drive the green ...

A new federal study claims Arkansas has enough lithium to meet at least nine times the projected 2030 global demand for the ...

The drilling byproduct could power future electric vehicles and expand the U.S. role in clean energy. Extraction methods are ...

The Importance Of Lithium Supply Lithium has quickly become a very important commodity, largely due to the rise of EVs and renewable energy and its associated massive demand for lithium-ion batteries.

U.S. Congress created the agency to “classify the public lands and examine the geological structure, mineral resources and ...

According to a Monday release from the U.S. Geological ... data,” making “a map of predicted lithium concentrations in Smackover Formation brines across southern Arkansas.” ...

Samples from Arkansas were analyzed by the USGS ... used to combine lithium concentrations in brines with geological data to create maps that predict total lithium concentrations across the ...

A machine learning model predicts that five to 19 million tons of lithium reserves are beneath southwestern Arkansas. This ...

The lithium mine, calculated using a machine-learning model and geological information that predicted maps of lithium concentration, represents 35% to 136% of the current amount of lithium estimated ...

Arkansas’s Smackover Formation could have ... director of the U.S. Geological Survey, said in a Monday press release. In their study, the researchers used a machine-learning model trained ...

USGS worked with the Arkansas Department of Energy and the ... batteries in electric vehicles nine times over. A U.S. Geological Survey map shows the Smackover Formation and the area sampled ...