Reported in 2023 in the WSJ:<p><a href="https://archive.is/cgNcI" rel="nofollow">https://archive.is/cgNcI</a><p>The city of Magnolia is about 30 miles west of Smackover, and both cities lie within the so-called Smackover lithium formation.<p>Companies are working on exploiting these resources. Lately, they are trying to determine what royalty payments should go to impacted landowners:<p><a href="https://arkansasadvocate.com/2025/05/27/latest-lithium-royalties-hearing-set-for-wednesday-in-magnolia/" rel="nofollow">https://arkansasadvocate.com/2025/05/27/latest-lithium-royal...</a>
Not sure about the quality of this article (well... I am sure... it's bad) but a good example of how the minerals deal in Ukraine is not as the media portrays it.<p>Minerals are in the ground everywhere.<p>So that stock photo is really representative of lithium, 100's of uses on the web, it might be petalite, any rock nerds? -<p><a href="https://i0.wp.com/mitechnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/LithiumRock.webp" rel="nofollow">https://i0.wp.com/mitechnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/...</a><p>So adobe stock photos lets you "Generate variations" - <a href="https://stock.adobe.com/au/search?k=petalite&asset_id=412946462" rel="nofollow">https://stock.adobe.com/au/search?k=petalite&asset_id=412946...</a>