The right to extract minerals from a piece of land.
most cotton farmers here do not own the mineral rights for the land that they farm
Example sentencesExamples
- Two of those mines are located on lands in which they have the mineral rights.
- They can legally retain a share of the mineral rights even after they sell the property.
- She denied that the company was planning to sell the mineral rights.
- It turned out that an adjacent quarry owned mineral rights under their new land.
- It has been a common practice to sell off mineral rights.
- In the late nineteenth century, their mineral rights to vast tracks of land were bought by out-of-state industrialists for a few dollars.
- Sometimes these mineral rights fetch a good deal of money in government auctions.
- He bought up mineral rights and discovered oil.
- In terms of new legislation, no property owners can claim for mineral rights
- They launched a campaign to force coal and other resource companies to pay fair taxes on the land they leased for mineral rights.