Wyoming Field Guides
Plain explanations of the deeds, division orders, royalty statements, and offer letters that reach a Wyoming owner's table, taken one document at a time.
How to Sell Mineral Rights
A landman's walk-through of selling Wyoming mineral rights: what paperwork you need, how offers get built, and what closing actually looks like.
What Are Mineral Rights Worth?
Why Wyoming's federal checkerboard, split estate, and BLM lease layer change what a mineral interest is worth, and what actually drives the number.
Landman Work in Wyoming: Federal and Fee Minerals
What landman work looks like in Wyoming: BLM lease records, state trust lands, checkerboard title, county clerk research, and what it means for a mineral owner.
How Landmen Run Title
How a landman builds a run sheet in Wyoming, from the federal patent through every county instrument, and why gaps and heirship matter to a seller.
Reading Your Royalty Statements
A plain-language breakdown of what's on a Wyoming royalty statement, why deductions and volumes move, and when a statement signals a problem.
Division Orders Explained
What a Wyoming division order is, why operators send them, and how to check the decimal interest before you sign and mail one back.
Documents You Need to Sell
The deed, heirship, and royalty paperwork a Wyoming mineral sale actually requires, and what to do when you can't find any of it.
How to Spot a Lowball Offer
The pressure tactics, number tricks, and paperwork shortcuts to watch for in Wyoming mineral rights offers, and what a fair one actually looks like.
Mineral Deeds & Title Transfer
What a Wyoming mineral deed conveys, how heirship without a will gets resolved, and what title curative work looks like before a sale records.
Lease vs. Sell: Which Is Right?
How leasing and selling Wyoming mineral rights actually differ, what each commits you to, and which situations tend to favor one over the other.
Taxes When You Sell Mineral Rights
How capital gains, cost basis, and depletion typically apply when selling Wyoming mineral rights, and questions worth taking to your CPA.
How Minerals Are Appraised
The income approach, comparable sales, and decline curve methods used to appraise Wyoming mineral interests, and where federal acreage complicates it.