mineral rights
Underground extraction claims
Mineral rights are the legal ownership of underground resources—oil, gas, coal, metals, and other minerals—beneath a piece of land.
In the United States, these rights can be separated from surface rights and sold or leased independently: The family sold the mineral rights but kept the ranch.
Mineral rights holders may extract resources or receive royalties from companies that do.
Written property conveyance
- titleFormal honorific or name
- leaseTemporary use contract
- royaltyPayment for usage rights
- severanceTermination pay or disconnection
conveyance · claim · stake · tenure · vesting · inheritance · entitlement · encumbrance
Extracting earth's resources
- drillingHole-making by rotation
- frackingExtracting gas via pressure
- quarryingOpen-pit stone mining
- excavationAct of unearthing
prospecting · dredging · blasting · tunneling · leaching · smelting · refining · wellhead
Ongoing payments to creators
- bonus paymentSupplemental compensation for performance
- lease signingFormalizing a rental agreement
- revenueBusiness income total
- dividendsProfits paid to shareholders
speculation · windfall · commodities · investment · landowner · lessee · lessor · pooling
Parallel geological layers
- bedrockSolid stone underground
- depositPlace for safekeeping
- veinVessel toward heart
- seamJoined fabric edge
reservoir · formation · aquifer · subterranean · underground · geology · geophysics · sedimentary
Natural underground hydrocarbon liquid
- natural gasSubterranean hydrocarbon fuel
- coalCombustible sedimentary rock
- uraniumElement ninety-two
- goldElement seventy-nine
silver · copper · platinum · bauxite · iron ore · rare earths · hydrocarbons · fossil fuels
deed
Written property conveyance
severance · conveyance · claim · stake · tenure · vesting · inheritance · entitlement · encumbrance · easement
mining
Extracting earth's resources
excavation · prospecting · dredging · blasting · tunneling · leaching · smelting · refining · wellhead · borehole
royalties
Ongoing payments to creators
- bonus paymentSupplemental compensation for performance
- lease signingFormalizing a rental agreement
- revenueBusiness income total
dividends · speculation · windfall · commodities · investment · landowner · lessee · lessor · pooling · unitization
strata
Parallel geological layers
seam · reservoir · formation · aquifer · subterranean · underground · geology · geophysics · sedimentary · overburden
petroleum
Natural underground hydrocarbon liquid
- natural gasSubterranean hydrocarbon fuel
- coalCombustible sedimentary rock
- uraniumElement ninety-two
gold · silver · copper · platinum · bauxite · iron ore · rare earths · hydrocarbons · fossil fuels · oil shale
- mining termsgold veins, silver veins, open pit mining, underground mining, drilling
- ownership disputesland disputes, land dispute, boundary disputes, boundary dispute, property claim
- mineral rightsoil leases, mining claims, mining claim
- resource rightsresource extraction, resource management, gas law, mining claims, offshore drilling
- mininggold, mines, gold mines, mine, coal
- geology termsfossils, rock layers, schist, core sample, gneiss
mineral rightsenvironmental protection
Safeguarding ecosystems from harm
land preservation · land stewardship · protected land · nature reserve · land trust
mineral, rights, minerals, miners, mineralogy, mineralize, mineralized, mineralogist, mineralogical