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Permalink Reply by John Tanner on October 12, 2023 at 11:14

I heard something about Miller county, but not Titus.  Have you been offered a lease form?  By who?

Permalink Reply by Lisa on October 13, 2023 at 6:45

We’ve been offered a lease for property in Franklin, and our acreage is a stone’s throw from Titus County. The representative offering us the lease is likely from Standard Lithium. I know friends in Titus just across county line who have also gotten lease offers as well. Their offers were so different that I would be surprised if their representatives were from SL, but maybe so.

Permalink Reply by Rock Man on October 14, 2023 at 3:48

High altitude comments about lithium lease potential in Titius and surrounding counties.

The Smackover formation appears to be the "target" section for lithium extraction options at this time with the core Texas area in Cass County. This formation and is general relationships to salt and evaporite formations (the possible source for lithium and other rare minerals) is similar from Hopkins County (to the west) all the way through Cass County and to the east towards the Magnolia area in Arkansas.

So the "system" for possible (stress possible) high lithium concentrations is in place along this trend.

With that being said, formation water mineral concentrations can vary quickly. And changes can be extreme over relatively small distances.

I posted an item several months about lithium concentrations in Smackover water in NW Cass County (Bryans Mill area) about USGS water chemistry results. 

In this area, lithium concentrations varied from very good to OK to very poor - over less than a 50-mile distance.

The complexities of lithium concentration in Smackover formation waters are extreme and difficult to predict. Those operators that can gain access to good Smackover water samples from across the aforementioned trend will have a "leg up" on understanding the potential of these areas.