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Vast lithium reserves discovered in Arkansas, says USGS  – Charged EVs

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Researchers at the US Geological Survey (USGS) say they have located high concentrations of lithium brine in the Smackover Formation in southern Arkansas. million metric tons) of lithium in Smackover Formation brine in southern Arkansas. to 19 million tons (4.63

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This Engineer’s Job Is to Keep Arkansas Nuclear One Safe

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The IEEE member is an electrical design engineer at Arkansas Nuclear One , in Russellville. The pressurized-water plant provides electricity to the majority of the state’s businesses and residents and to customers beyond Arkansas. student at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, when she interned at Arkansas Nuclear One.

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Default Passwords Jeopardize Water Infrastructure

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Drinking water systems pose increasingly attractive targets as malicious hacker activity is on the rise globally , according to new warnings from security agencies around the world. Last November, for instance, hackers linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard broke into a water system in the western Pennsylvania town of Aliquippa.

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Major spill from the ExxonMobil Pegasus pipeline in Arkansas

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Approximately 4,500 barrels of oil and water (189,000 gallons US) have been recovered. Wabasca Heavy is a heavy oil from the Athabasca region obtained by polymer injection and water flooding and typically has a 19-20 API gravity and 4.15 Principal producers of Wabasca include Cenovus Energy and Canadian Natural Resources.

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Galvanic, IBAT testing proves Smackover brine is DLE compatible

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by Brent Wilson, president and CEO of Galvanic Energy. I’ve written here in the past about my company’s Smackover prospect in southwest Arkansas. I’ve written here in the past about my company’s Smackover prospect in southwest Arkansas. We can find the lithium.

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Albemarle expands Nevada site to increase domestic production of lithium

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Beginning in 2021, the company plans to invest $30 million to $50 million to double the current production at the Nevada site by 2025, making full use of its brine water rights. In addition to examining clay resources, Albemarle is seeking ways to optimize lithium extraction from its brine resources, including those in the Clayton Valley.

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The US’s largest battery-grade lithium refinery will be in Oklahoma

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It will use Port Muskogee on the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System to ship lithium brine water to the refinery, where it will derive the lithium, and then use the same inland waterway system to ship battery-grade lithium out. Muskogee also has a skilled workforce trained in oil and gas engineering. Get started here. –ad*