# Waste water

**URL:** https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/waste-water/83015
**Category:** Mountrail County, ND
**Created:** [August 12, 2025, 7:44am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/waste-water/83015 "2025-08-12T07:44:14Z")
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### Author: ![apollo11549](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@apollo11549](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/apollo11549)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2025, 7:44am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/waste-water/83015/1 "2025-08-12T07:44:14Z")

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Has anybody heard anything about the processing of wastewater for lithium?

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### Author: ![M\_Barnes](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/user_avatar/www.mineralrightsforum.com/m_barnes/32/10942_2.png) [@M\_Barnes](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/M_Barnes)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2025, 2:29pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/waste-water/83015/2 "2025-08-12T14:29:45Z")

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Are you asking about produced oil & gas water waste or sewer waste?

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### Author: ![apollo11549](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@apollo11549](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/apollo11549)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 5:37am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/waste-water/83015/3 "2025-08-13T05:37:14Z")

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The salty byproduct of oil and gas drilling.

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### Author: ![M\_Barnes](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/user_avatar/www.mineralrightsforum.com/m_barnes/32/10942_2.png) [@M\_Barnes](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/M_Barnes)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 12:27pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/waste-water/83015/4 "2025-08-13T12:27:47Z")

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Tremendous interest in extracting lithium from produced water in Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana out of the Smackover formation. You can use your search engine to look up what Exxon and Standard LIthium (among others) are doing. Not sure if the interest has moved to ND yet due to the experimental stage at this point,economics and the geology.

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### Author: ![apollo11549](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@apollo11549](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/apollo11549)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 1:48pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/waste-water/83015/5 "2025-08-13T13:48:07Z")

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There’s growing academic and industry curiosity about lithium in unconventional reservoirs, including geothermal and oilfield brines. But North Dakota’s role is likely to remain exploratory until Direct Lithium Extraction proves profitable and scalable in more favorable regions, economics, and geology.

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### Author: ![system](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/uploads/db5755/original/3X/6/c/6c7c56608c843272ad6e3662ce9562a5956f173e.png) [@system](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2025, 7:44am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/waste-water/83015/6 "2025-11-10T07:44:55Z")

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