What drives the value of your Texas minerals — and how to find out your number, free.
There is no single price per acre for Texas mineral rights — and a statewide average is meaningless, because value swings by county, formation, and whether your acreage is producing. What determines your number is your net mineral acres, the play beneath your specific tract, active wells and remaining drilling nearby, and current commodity prices. The reliable way to learn it is a free, no-obligation valuation from American Royalty Buyers, built from your acreage with the reasoning explained.
Texas mineral values concentrate where the drilling is: the Permian Basin leads the nation in activity, split between the Midland Basin — where counties like Midland, Martin, and Reagan sit over the stacked Spraberry and Wolfcamp — and the Delaware Basin to the west (Loving, Reeves). Beyond the Permian, the Eagle Ford, Barnett, Haynesville, and the conventional fields of North and East Texas each carry their own value profiles, from active horizontal units to long-lived legacy royalties.
What sets a specific Texas interest's value: producing versus non-producing acreage, the formations and remaining drilling inventory beneath it, which operator controls the unit and how active they are (see the most active Permian operators), your lease's royalty rate, and your net mineral acres. County matters enormously — the same acreage size can differ in value many times over between a core Midland Basin county like Reagan and a legacy conventional county. The drivers, not a statewide average, are what a real valuation weighs: What are Midland Basin minerals worth?
ARB is a Texas-based direct buyer of mineral rights, royalties, NPRI, ORRI, and non-operated working interests across the state — producing or non-producing, including inherited and fractional interests. A free, written valuation shows the number and the reasoning, with no fees and no obligation.
The single biggest factor is whether there are active wells beneath your acreage. Producing Texas minerals are valued on the royalty income they generate, adjusted for how quickly that income will decline. Non-producing minerals are valued on a per-net-mineral-acre basis that reflects the probability and timing of future drilling.
No online calculator or per-acre rule of thumb can tell you your number — a statewide "average price per acre" is meaningless because value swings by county, formation, and producing status. The reliable way to learn what your Texas minerals are worth is a valuation built from your specific acreage, which ARB provides free, with the reasoning explained and no obligation to sell.
There is no single per-acre price for Texas minerals — value depends on your net mineral acres, whether the acreage is producing, which formation and county your tract sits in, nearby operator activity and well decline, and current commodity prices. Because Texas spans very different plays, two interests the same size can be worth very different amounts. The reliable way to learn your number is a free, no-obligation valuation built from your specific acreage, which American Royalty Buyers provides with the reasoning explained.
A statewide average price per acre is not a usable number, because value varies enormously by county, formation, and producing status — a producing tract over an active horizontal play and a non-producing tract on the margin can differ many times over. Rather than a misleading average, ARB values your specific Texas acreage and shows the reasoning, for free and with no obligation.
Producing minerals are valued primarily on the royalty income they generate, adjusted for how quickly that income will decline. Newer wells facing steep decline are treated differently than wells further along their curve, and remaining undrilled locations nearby add upside.
Non-producing minerals are valued on a per-net-mineral-acre basis that reflects the probability and timing of future drilling. In active core areas with nearby permits and rigs the value is higher; on the margins it is discounted because drilling is less certain.
Submit your information through our valuation form or call (817) 778-9532. American Royalty Buyers delivers a free, written, no-obligation valuation of your specific Texas interest — typically within five business days, with no fees and no pressure to sell.