A study released this week by the USGS finds the Smackover formation in Southern Arkansas may contain 9 times the estimated global demand for lithium through 2030.

Move over, gold. The U.S. lithium rush may be set to boom. The United States Geological Survey said Monday that there may be an enormous lithium reserve buried in south Arkansas' Smackover Formation,

A new USGS survey, made possible through machine learning and environmental testing, has led to the discovery of an estimated 5 to 19 million tons of lithium reserves under southwestern Arkansas. It's an amount that,