Texas Smackover Lithium Play

As the Smackover (SMK) Lithium (Li) play picks up steam we need to acknowledge that from regulatory and legal standpoints, there will be significant differences between the play in South Arkansas and in East Texas.  Very soon we expect to know more about royalty provisions and regulatory guidelines.  From past experience with dissimilarities between Texas and Louisiana mineral laws and regulatory statutes governing the Haynesville Shale, we hope to limit confusion and make it easier to access the information that will be pertinent to land and mineral owners.

In order to help members and quests to the website and to avoid confusion, we will start two new discussions, one for Texas and one for Arkansas.  There is an abundance of information in the original SMK Lithium discussion threads and members may want to click on them and then save them to their computer bookmarks/favorites to be able to access them in the future as they will eventually rotate off the main page.  After 24 hours, comments in those discussions will be closed but the replies will remain available in the website archive.   Archived discussions are available by using the search box in the upper right corner of all website pages.

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Permalink Reply by Joe B. Lovelace on March 1, 2025 at 12:11
Filed in the Texas Legislature yesterday (February 28, 2025) by Senator Bryan Hughes is SB 1763 (attached) with the following language:

DEFINITION.  In this chapter, "brine minerals" means the interstitial particles and solutes suspended, dissolved, or otherwise contained in brine, including bromine, magnesium, potassium, lithium, boron, chlorine, iodine, calcium, strontium, sodium, sulfur, barium, sodium chloride, and other minerals, chemical elements, compounds, or products produced with or extracted from brine.
Sec. 124.002.  OWNERSHIP OF BRINE MINERALS.  Except as otherwise expressly provided by a conveyance, contract, deed, reservation, exception, limitation, lease, assignment, or other binding obligation, the owner of the mineral estate of the land owns the brine minerals below the surface of the land as real property and is responsible for protecting the correlative rights of other owners.
Recall that Senator Hughes in the 2023 Texas Legislative Session authored SB 1186 authorizing the Texas Railroad Commission to pass rules to regulate extraction of fluid from brine aquifers in Texas.  The Commission adopted new rules to implement the provisions of Senate Bill 1186.
 
The progress of SB 1763 can be tracked at Texas Legislature Online  https://capitol.texas.gov/Home.aspx
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From Press Release issued by Standard Lithium March 26, 2025 

https://www.standardlithium.com/investors/news-events/press-release...

  • The first ETX project area of approximately 67,000 acres has been identified. This project area is centered on Franklin County, and the Company has previously drilled three exploratory boreholes in and adjacent to this project area and reported the highest known lithium in brine grades in North America (maximum lithium grade of 806 mg/L reported). Some of the existing wells will be resampled during Q2 and Q3 of this year, and it is expected that a maiden Inferred Resource Report for this highly prospective lithium resource will be published in Q3 of this year;

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