Unfortunately Seege, That is corrct in many cases. The Mineral rights (rights to gas, oil, gold, silver, etc. . . ) can be separated from the property, and has been in many of the plots of land that have been sold by the original owners. Sometimes that was the railroads, sometimes BLM. They are required to pay for the resources they use, but the price is not set by the landowner.

I only have a limited knowledge of this, and have now exhausted it. What I have came from looking into buying a couple of peices of property briefly.

Don