TYLER – A new lithium mining project planned in Northeast Texas has received the green light from the Trump Administration.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s exciting about East Texas in particular is the lithium grade there,\u201d CEO of Standard Lithium, Jesse Edmondson, said.<\/p>\n
According to our news partner KETK, parts of the East Texas region will be home to Standard Lithium\u2019s second commercial project to extract the precious mineral from saltwater thousands of feet underground.<\/p>\n
\u201d\u00a0We see most of the growth of our company over the next decade will be in East Texas,\u201d Edmondson said.<\/p>\n
The Canada-based company went through a federal permitting review process in the U.S., which determined a very\u00a0minimal\u00a0environmental impact to our water, air, and landscape.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re talking about on the order of a dozen to two dozen well pads, each one of which can have multiple wells drilled off of them. Then the surface disturbance is really limited to those well pads themselves and then the central processing facility,\u201d Edmondson said.<\/p>\n
The company\u2019s flagship projects in the U.S. are located in what\u2019s called the \u201d Smackover Formation.\u201d It focuses on the areas in Franklin County and parts of Hopkins and Titus counties.<\/p>\n
The average grade for our Franklin project is just over 600 milligrams per liter, but we\u2019ve actually drilled a hole in that project area that was as high as is 800 milligrams per liter, so these are truly globally significant world class numbers and it\u2019s really exciting for the company, we think for East Texas and for our country that we\u2019re currently reliant on China for lithium and for lithium chemicals, so which are critical for modern battery technology,\u201d Edmondson said.<\/p>\n
Edmondson said the project is different from Lithium-ion battery storage facilities and focuses on extraction.<\/p>\n
Most recently, a storage project was halted by a district judge in Van Zandt County.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t have the capacity to fight those kinds of fires, so if they don\u2019t comply with the fire code, they should be redesigned,\u201d Van Zandt Co. Precinct 2 Commissioner Cliff Williams said.<\/p>\n
Williams hopes the new mining project will comply with state and national codes and not kick people out of their homes.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat [mining project] is done in such a way that it respects the property ownership of those owners that live out there next door to where these operations are going to be taking place,\u201d Williams said.<\/p>\n
The extraction project is still in the early stages, and construction wouldn\u2019t begin until at least 2030. Standard Lithium said this massive project will bring hundreds of jobs to the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TYLER – A new lithium mining project planned in Northeast Texas has received the green light from the Trump Administration. \u201cWhat\u2019s exciting about East Texas in particular is the lithium grade there,\u201d CEO of Standard Lithium, Jesse Edmondson, said. According to our news partner KETK, parts of the East Texas region will be home to … Continue reading Lithium mining is the new boom in the Pineywoods<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2851],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1507223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news-archive"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 02:25:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1507223"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1507564,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507223\/revisions\/1507564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1507223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1507223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1507223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}