Mineral owner resources
Plain-English guides to owning, valuing, and selling mineral and royalty interests — written for owners and heirs, by the people who underwrite these interests every day.
You Inherited Mineral Rights. Now What?
A decision guide for heirs: confirm what you own, understand the stepped-up basis window, and choose between keeping, leasing, and selling — on your timeline.
Inherited Mineral Rights in Texas: Your Options
Texas-specific guidance for heirs: muniment of title and heirship affidavits, the county property-tax surprise on producing minerals, and the deepest buyer pool in the country.
Inherited Mineral Rights in Oklahoma: Your Options
The ancillary-probate step that surprises out-of-state heirs, forced-pooling deadlines, nonresident withholding, and the SCOOP/STACK activity lens.
Inherited Mineral Rights in North Dakota: Your Options
Bakken inheritances owned from a distance: the title step, the 20-year abandoned-minerals statute, nonresident withholding, and decline-era valuation.
Inherited Mineral Rights in Montana: Your Options
Ranchland mineral inheritances: preserving non-producing interests under the dormant-minerals procedure, title from out of state, and the Bakken/Powder River value lens.
Inherited Mineral Rights in New Mexico: Your Options
Delaware Basin inheritances: the out-of-state title step, nonresident withholding, community-property wrinkles, and why undrilled spacing is often the biggest line item.
Inherited Mineral Rights in Colorado: Your Options
DJ Basin inheritances: the title step, severance tax and nonresident filing, and why operator consolidation gives Colorado valuations a shelf life.
Inherited Mineral Rights in Wyoming: Your Options
No state income tax changes the hold math: the Wyoming title step, fee minerals in federal checkerboard country, and the Powder River value lens.
The 3 Ways to Sell Mineral Rights: Direct, Auction, or Broker
Selling directly to a buyer, at auction, or through a listing broker — honest pros and cons of each, and why competition plus information usually makes the brokered net the largest.
Taxes When You Sell Mineral Rights
Capital gains, the stepped-up basis rule that often shrinks the tax bill on inherited minerals, and how royalty income is taxed while you hold.
Mineral Rights 101: What You Actually Own
Mineral vs. surface estates, royalty and mineral interests, NPRIs and ORRIs, net mineral acres vs. net royalty acres — the vocabulary of ownership, in plain English.
How to Choose a Mineral Rights Broker
The questions that separate a real seller-side broker from a buyer in disguise: commission in writing, representation, valuation method, and listing terms.
The Unsolicited Offer Playbook
You got a letter offering to buy your minerals. Here is what it usually means, and the five steps that protect your price before you respond.
Sell, Lease, or Keep? A Framework
The three paths every mineral owner chooses between, what each one pays, and the situations where each is the right answer.