Sell Mineral Rights in Arkansas

Here's how we work an Arkansas mineral purchase: you send us your division order or deed, we run title, we quote a number, and we close, usually in that order and usually in a matter of weeks.

Arkansas mineral owners generally fall into two very different buckets right now. There's Fayetteville Shale gas royalty, mostly in Van Buren, Cleburne, Faulkner, and White counties, which was drilled hard from roughly 2005 through 2012 and has been declining steadily since. And there's the newer Smackover lithium brine interest centered around El Dorado and Union County, where old bromine-producing formations are getting a second look for lithium extraction.

We buy interests in both. If you're not sure which category yours falls into, or you've got something else entirely, send us what paperwork you have and we'll figure it out together before we talk price.

Step One: You Send Us What You've Got

Most Arkansas sellers start with a royalty check stub, a division order, or an old lease they found going through a parent's or grandparent's papers. That's enough for us to start. We don't need a full abstract of title from you, that's our job to pull.

If your interest is Fayetteville Shale production, tell us the operator name off your check stub, since that alone tells us a lot about which part of the play you're in and roughly what production trend to expect. If it's Smackover-area acreage with no current well, tell us the county and whether you've been approached about a lithium lease, since that's changing the value conversation across southern Arkansas fast.

Step Two: We Run Title Through the County Circuit Clerk

Arkansas records conveyances through the county circuit clerk's office, and for Fayetteville Shale tracts specifically, we're checking for the original lease terms, any pooling or unitization orders from the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission, and whether your interest was ever split among heirs without a recorded affidavit. Smackover-area title work often involves older leases from the 1930s through 50s bromine era that need to be reconciled with any newer brine or lithium leasing activity.

We flag anything that needs clearing before we get to a closing date. Most of the time it's minor, an unrecorded heirship document or a lease that technically expired but was never formally released.

Step Three: We Quote and Close

For Fayetteville Shale royalty, what we offer tracks current production decline, gas pricing, and how much runway is left on the well before it hits stripper status, if it hasn't already. This is a mature play now, so most of the production we buy is well past its peak, which is normal and doesn't mean the interest isn't worth buying, it just means we're pricing off where the well is today, not where it was in 2009.

For Smackover lithium-area acreage, we're being straight with sellers: this is an emerging trend, not an established royalty stream yet in most spots. If there's no producing lithium operation on your tract, we're pricing speculative upside based on nearby project activity, not a support future payout. Nobody buying your minerals today can promise you what a lithium royalty will pay five years from now, and if a buyer tells you otherwise, that's a claim you should be skeptical of.