At Tuesday night's City-Wide Registration, Arizona Lithium was letting the Estevan community know about their plans to pump up the lithium industry in the southeast.

They recently purchased Prairie Lithium, which had been doing surveys around the southeast looking for potential lithium to pump out.

After the sale, the company is now looking to get involved in the southeast and be a key player in lithium production for all of North America.

Managing Director Paul Lloyd says that the work they're doing is on the brink of changing extraction for the world.

"What we're applying here we call in the industry direct lithium extraction and its cutting edge technology. As soon as we perfect that technology, it will revolutionize the lithium extraction industry. There's a number of people working on that technology around the world, mainly in North America, and we hope that we'll be one of the first to crack the code on direct lithium extraction."

As they're currently in their development phase, any possible extraction won't be happening for a bit.

"When you're in the development stage, it's difficult to put a timeline on it," said Lloyd, "We're kind of looking at sort of nine to 18 months for the development of our technology, and then putting one modular unit into the field to start producing lithium as a proof of concept. So that's very exciting for us and very exciting for our shareholders."

One aspect definitely helping their work has been the southeast, which has a lot of experience in resource extraction.

"It's one advantage when we looked at the acquisition," said Lloyd, "It's an area where there's historic oil and gas extraction and we are not doing anything different because we are extracting material from the depths and then filtering it and putting it back down again. This area has a high water cut on their oil and gas production, so we're doing the exact same."

"We look forward to employing a lot of people in the area, there seems to be a lot of skilled labour that understands this area and that's a real plus for us."