Lithium expert offers background and insight into lithium extraction
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 5:00am
Lithium continues to be a hot topic around the Ark-La-Tex region as new players emerge in the market for a potential boon including “big oil”. Up until April of 2023, none of the Cass County papers had ever done a story on lithium. Most in the area were caught by surprise when businesses began to visit property owners in hopes of securing mineral rights. Also in March, Standard Lithium announced that wells drilled in Cass County showed some of the highest concentrations of lithium in the world. While the world continues to change in its quest for “clean energy”, there has been one person who has roots in Cass County and has been here in the region working with Lithium since the 1980s, John Burba.
