Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by nihilist_t21 2194 days ago
I am quite familiar with Duchesne County from my work. But yes, the right of ingress and egress applies to holders of mineral rights. I am sure there are bad apples, but the clients I've worked with have been very accommodating to surface owners when it comes time to drill. They want everyone to be happy and to get compensated for what occurs.

I only have experience in the Western states, but this it is very frequent to find the the mineral rights have been long severed from the surface rights. Typically it is when the original patentee of the tract sells the surface they end up reserving the mineral rights.