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 Lisa -
I know folks in south Franklin who have leased with Geoframe—VERY GOOD TERMS!
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Permalink Reply by phoenix
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I see a couple of dozen leases in Franklin County to Black Mountain Lithium LLC. Appear to cover Oil, gas and Lithium.
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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant
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It sounds like the epicenter for leasing is now E TX and there are new players. The question is always, are they speculators or lithium companies or land companies in the employ of lithium companies? That may be unknown until the leases are assigned, or not, at a later date. Thanks, phoenix, I've seen a few leases that cover O&G in addition to brine.
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Permalink Reply by phoenix
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Appears that Lithium is also found in the Cretaceous(Paluxy).
Lithium Recovery from Oil and Gas Produced Water: A Need for a Growing Energy Industry
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsenergylett.9b00779
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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant
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Thanks, phoenix. In regard to lithium in formations other than the Smackover, Rock Man has mentioned several in the past. I haven't heard any mention of why the focus is on the Smackover in regards to Li concentrations or brine volumes.
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Permalink Reply by Rock Man
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Focus is on the Smackover in the ArkLaTex due to actual water analyses and measurements of associated minerals like lithium.
The USGS has tens of thousands analyses covering various formations / wells across the Lower 48.
- Most do not have any significant lithium presence.
- Lithium presence will be tied to some very specific issues in the subsurface and include issues like proximity to volcanic rocks with associated lithium content, good reservoir presence, faulting, fractures, associated with evaporitic zones and other issues.
- The Smackover in the ArkLaTex has these factors in place
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Permalink Reply by phoenix
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I do not understand the concentration on only Smackover unless it is because that is what is being developed in Arkansas, These other formations would open up a much larger area and other existing oil fields. Might be wise to look at the whole Mexia - Talco Fault Zone area?
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Permalink Reply by Rock Man
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Agree that other formations would be a plus - but only if there were good content. Prior to the lithium boom, there were thousands of formations with water analyses - the USGS database is from this pre-lithium period.
Since lithium started to the next big thing, I am sure that most produced water from various wells in various areas have been analyzed for exotic minerals like lithium.
- This includes the area along the Mexia Talco fault system as well as most water producing formations from surface to Smackover (nothing of interest deeper than the Smackover).
Detailed analyses by a good lab run about $1000 per sample.
In addition to companies in the public sector, many universities and research labs are looking at these exotic minerals in formation water - thereby adding to the data base.
The fact that the Smackover is the focus right now is a direct indication that other formations in this area are essentially barren as to viable lithium presence.
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