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What are my mineral rights worth?
Nobody can give you an honest number without looking at your actual interest. What we can do is show you how the number gets built, so you can check anyone's offer, including ours.
Start with net royalty acres
Acres on a deed do not tell you much on their own. What matters is net royalty acres, which adjusts your acreage for the royalty rate in your lease. Ten acres leased at a 25% royalty is worth twice as much as ten acres leased at 12.5%, even though both say "ten acres." Run yours below.
Net royalty acre calculator
This only does the math. It does not estimate a price.
Net royalty acres: enter both numbers
Formula: net mineral acres × (royalty ÷ 12.5%)
Example: 40 net mineral acres leased at a 20% royalty is 64 net royalty acres. If you do not know your net mineral acres or royalty rate, your lease, deed or division order usually has them, or we can look them up.
What moves the value
- What it pays now. Producing interests are priced mostly off your recent checks.
- How old the wells are. New shale wells decline fast. Older wells pay a steadier check, and steady is worth more per dollar.
- What is coming. Permits, rigs and completions nearby that are not paying you yet. The Texas Railroad Commission publishes these.
- Your lease terms. Royalty rate, deductions, and depth or Pugh clauses.
- What is underneath. In stacked areas, deeper zones can be worth more than the one paying you.
We go through each of these in how a mineral buyer prices your royalty.
Why we will not quote a per-acre price here
A per-acre number ignores everything above. Two tracts across the road from each other can be worth very different amounts. Any number on a page like this would be wrong for most people who read it.
Get a real number
Call or text (936) 289-3438, or send us the basics through the form on our home page. A recent check stub is the most useful thing you can send. We will show you how we got to our number, and if keeping your minerals is the better move, we will say so. Find your county, read about Haynesville minerals, or inherited minerals.
General information, not legal or tax advice. Talk to your own attorney or accountant about your situation.