What We’re Reading & Watching: June 5, 2026

• The Lithium Voice, a quarterly journal published by the International Lithium Association, puts the Smackover Formation and Arkansas lithium projects on the cover of its latest issue. | Download the magazine

• The Texas Tribune reports on the potential of East Texas as a source of lithium for the U.S. military, as well as a proposed federal bill that would allow private-sector companies to mine for lithium beneath military depots. | Read the article

• Science Daily reports that researchers at Columbia Engineering “have developed a new lithium extraction technique that could speed up production, reduce pollution and tap reserves that existing technologies struggle to access.” The method, detailed in the journal Joule, uses a temperature-responsive solvent to extract lithium from salty brines. | Read the article

• Robert S. Walsh, a retired U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant general, founding principal of The Walsh Group LLC and a strategic adviser to Standard Lithium, writes in Stars & Stripes about China’s stranglehold on critical minerals and the need for the U.S. to secure a domestic lithium supply chain. | Read the article

OK Energy Today reports on claims by mineral development and technology company LibertyStream Infrastructure Partners Inc. of Calgary that the Permian Basin, the richest oil and gas play in the country, might also be a viable source of lithium. | Read the article