Smackover

This is a very major project for the United States.

It's a very major project for, you know, the SmackOver and DLE, you know, broadly.

So I think the industry's eyes are very much on you and on this project.

And, you know, it's been an exciting couple of weeks and look forward to, you know, that FID in a few

Tell my listeners a little bit about your education, your history, your family, just whatever you want to share.

You know, I grew up in the southern portion of Arkansas, south central Arkansas, and a little town of Smackover is where I went to school.

We actually had a vegetable farm, a truck patch farm near Strong, Arkansas, which was about seven miles north of Louisiana.

And I really, I would say from day one is when I was large enough to walk, I was out there in the fields and I really enjoyed agriculture, enjoyed producing crops, and I hated weeds with a passion, I guess, from day one.

I think something else we've done, and I'll kind of use an example, is we have one project in an area in East Texas.

It's the Smackover area.

Lithium is becoming very prominent out there and the

mineral owners we were talking to, they had already been approached