Mineral rights add a layer of complexity to any Colorado land sale. Whether your land has severed mineral rights, intact mineral estates, active oil and gas leases, or coal, uranium, or other mineral interests, understanding the full picture is essential to getting a fair price. We buy Colorado land with mineral rights of all kinds — we won't ignore the subsurface value when making your offer. Call 970-478-1022 for a frank conversation about what your land and mineral interests are worth.
Colorado sits atop some of the most valuable energy and mineral reserves in the American West. The DJ Basin (Weld and Adams counties) is one of the most productive oil and gas regions in the country. The Piceance Basin on the Western Slope holds enormous natural gas reserves. Coal underlies large portions of southern and western Colorado. The state has a deep history of hard rock mining for gold, silver, molybdenum, and other metals in the mountain counties.
When you own land in Colorado, you may own the surface rights only, the mineral rights only, or both — what's called a "unified" or "unencumbered" estate. Many Colorado landowners don't know whether their mineral rights are intact or were severed generations ago. This is a crucial question for valuation.
Mineral severance is common throughout Colorado. Railroad land grants, homestead patents, and subsequent sales throughout the 20th century often separated the surface estate from the mineral estate. If your mineral rights were severed before you acquired the property, they belong to someone else — your land is "surface only." This is extremely common, particularly on the Eastern Plains and Western Slope.
We research mineral ownership before making our offer. If you have intact mineral rights, we factor that value into our offer. If minerals are severed, we tell you that clearly — you shouldn't expect to be paid for minerals you don't own.
If your mineral rights are leased to an oil and gas operator, you're receiving royalty income or a lease bonus. We buy land subject to existing mineral leases. The lease transfers with the mineral rights to us, and we become the new royalty recipient. This is a clean transaction that doesn't require you to break the lease or negotiate with the operator.
In some cases, landowners prefer to sell surface rights separately from mineral rights, or sell only the mineral rights while keeping the surface. We're experienced with bifurcated transactions. If you want to explore selling just the mineral interest while keeping the land (or vice versa), we can structure that.
If you own a royalty interest in Colorado land — a right to receive a percentage of production from oil, gas, or other minerals without owning the surface — we can evaluate and purchase those royalty interests as well. Call us to discuss.
Our simple 3-step process makes selling your land fast and easy
Fill out our simple form or give us a call. Tell us about your property and what you're looking for.
We'll evaluate your property and present you with a fair, no-obligation cash offer within 24 hours.
Choose your closing date. We handle all the paperwork and cover closing costs. Get paid in as little as 7 days.
Colorado is one of the leading energy-producing states in the country. The DJ Basin in Weld County has undergone a dramatic transformation over the past 15 years as horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing made the Niobrara and Codell formations highly productive. Landowners with mineral rights in Weld County may hold genuinely significant interests — even small mineral tracts can be worth substantial sums if they sit in productive drilling areas.
The Piceance Basin in Garfield, Rio Blanco, and Mesa counties contains enormous natural gas reserves, though development activity has fluctuated with natural gas prices. Garfield County landowners near Rifle and Parachute have historically seen significant mineral activity. Mesa County near Grand Junction has both oil/gas interests and uranium deposits from historic mining activity.
On the Eastern Plains, mineral rights beneath wheat and corn ground may or may not be valuable depending on proximity to productive formations. Many Eastern Plains surface owners have long-severed mineral estates and own only the surface — we verify this before making any offer.
If you're in Weld County, Garfield County, Mesa County, or anywhere else in Colorado and believe your land may include mineral value, call us for an honest evaluation. Mineral rights are frequently overlooked in standard land sales — we make sure they're accounted for properly.
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