June 13, 2024--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Arizona Lithium (West Perth, Australia) was greeted with positive news last week when the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) gave the green light to the company to begin exploratory drilling across its Big Sandy site in Arizona, where Arizona Lithium hopes to produce lithium carbonate. Lithium is one of the 50 minerals identified as critical by the U.S. Geological Survey and is used primarily in battery technologies for everything from electric vehicles to mobile phones.