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2020s, feasibility studies to extract commercial quantities of lithium are underway.

The 1922 discovery of the Smackover oil field, after which the Smackover Formation is named, resulted in a sizable oil boom in southern Arkansas.

In addition to being a petroleum reservoir, as of 2015, the brine from the Smackover Formation is the only source of commercial bromine in the United States.

A 2022 report estimated

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