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Bromine Production In The United States
__NOTOC__ Bromine production in the United States of 225,000 tonnes in 2013 made that country the second-largest producer of bromine, after Israel. The US supplied 29 percent of world production. Since 2007, all US bromine has been produced by two companies in southern Arkansas, which extract bromine from brine pumped from the Smackover Formation. At an advertised price of US$3.50 to US$3.90 per kg, the US 2013 US production would have a value of roughly US$800 million. The two active bromine producers are Albemarle Corporation and Chemtura, whose bromine operations together employ 950 people. Albemarle Corporation, whose corporate headquarters is in Charlotte, North Carolina, operates two main plants at Magnolia, in Columbia County, Arkansas, and some satellite plants in Union County. In 2007, Albemarle had capacity to produce 148,000 tons of bromine per year. Chemtura, a Philadelphia-based corporation, operates four plants through its subsidiary, Great Lakes Solutions. Three pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smackover Formation
The Smackover Formation is a geologic formation in Arkansas. It preserves fossils A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved in ... dating back to the Jurassic Period (geology), period. The Smackover Formation consists of oolitic limestones and silty limestones. Mineral resources The Smackover Formation has been a prolific source of petroleum. The 1922 discovery of the Smackover, Arkansas#Smackover Oil Field, Smackover oil field, after which the Smackover Formation is named, resulted in a sizeable 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 that the lithium brine in the formation has "sufficient lithium to pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
