The Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission rejected a proposed royalty rate for lithium extraction in the state’s Smackover Formation.
Lithium companies that have swarmed over southern Arkansas in search of the mineral from the brine to be used in EV batteries favored a 1.82% rate but the Commission said the firms did not prove the rate was fair and equitable.
Arkansas Business reported it was a unanimous, 8-0 vote.
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