Terms of use

Checked
Aug 18 2026

The short answer

This site is a dated, sourced record of published law and public data, and it is not legal advice and not advice about your specific tract. Mineral title turns on the wording of the instruments in your own chain of title, and no page here has seen them. Use the record to know what to look for and what the law says, then have a title examiner or an attorney read your documents.

These terms are governed by Colorado law and include an individual arbitration clause with a thirty-day opt-out, described below. Effective August 18, 2026.

Checked against the sources named below on August 18, 2026.

Who these terms are with

Mineral Rights Atlas (mineralrightsatlas.com) is an independent reference site operated from Colorado, United States ("we", "us"). "You" means anyone using the site. These terms govern that use, together with the privacy page, which is the authority on how data is handled. By using the site you accept them as posted, to the fullest extent the law allows. You can reach us at corrections@mineralrightsatlas.com.

What you can rely on

That every claim here was checked against the source named beside it on the date shown, and that the quotations are verbatim from the copy linked. That is a real commitment and the build enforces it mechanically.

What you cannot rely on

That the law has not changed since the date on the page. That the source itself is free of error. That a rule stated generally applies to your tract, your deed, your lease, or your family's situation. Statutes are amended, agencies renumber their rules, and courts distinguish cases on facts. The date on the page is there precisely so you can judge how much weight it carries.

Not advice, and not an appraisal

Nothing on this site is legal advice, financial or investment advice, or tax advice, and nothing on it is an appraisal. The valuation pages describe how mineral interests are generally valued and what published data exists; they do not and cannot tell you what your minerals are worth, and no figure here is an offer or an opinion of value for your property. The tax pages describe published tax rules; they are not advice about your return. Decisions about selling, leasing, valuing or reporting a mineral interest belong with a licensed appraiser, a title examiner or attorney, and a tax professional reading your own documents and facts.

No relationship is created

Reading this site, subscribing to the briefing, or asking to be introduced to a buyer creates no attorney and client relationship and no fiduciary duty of any kind. Nobody here is representing your interests in a transaction.

Introductions to buyers

An introduction is an introduction. This site does not appraise your minerals, does not negotiate for you, does not receive your offer, and takes no position on whether you should accept one. The terms of every introduction are on the buyers page.

Reuse and intellectual property

The original prose, the page structure, the dated verification record and the map are this site's work and are protected by copyright. The statutes, opinions and agency documents quoted here are government works: we claim nothing over them, and nothing in these terms restricts your use of the law itself, which is exactly what the source links are for.

Read the pages, print them, save them, quote them with attribution and a link, and cite them in your own research or in advising a client. Crawling and indexing are welcome. What is not licensed is republishing this site's own prose wholesale as a substitute for it. The same arrangement is stated informally on the sources page, and the two are meant to agree.

No warranty

The site is provided as is and as available, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy or non-infringement. To the fullest extent the law allows, its maintainers are not liable for decisions taken on the basis of it, and any liability that cannot be excluded is limited to the greatest extent the law permits. This site is published free of charge, and that allocation of risk is what free means.

Indemnification

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you agree to hold us harmless from any third-party claim arising out of your breach of these terms, your presentation of this site's content as professional advice to someone who relied on you, or your use of the site in violation of any law. This does not apply to any claim to the extent it is finally determined to have resulted from our own negligence or willful misconduct, and nothing in it requires you to indemnify us for anything that cannot be indemnified under the law where you live.

Disputes: individual arbitration, and your 30-day opt-out

This section changes how disputes get resolved: most go to binding arbitration on an individual basis instead of court, there is no class action, and you can reject the whole arrangement within 30 days at no cost. It is deliberately proportionate to what this is, a free reference site with nothing for sale.

Talk to us first. Before either of us starts an arbitration or a lawsuit, the one with the complaint sends the other a written notice describing the dispute and what they want, and for 60 days both sides try in good faith to settle it informally. Notice to us goes to corrections@mineralrightsatlas.com.

Arbitration. If that fails, you and we each agree that any dispute arising out of these terms or the site will be resolved by binding arbitration on an individual basis, administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, before one arbitrator, with the Federal Arbitration Act governing this section. The arbitrator may award any individual relief a court could. Either of us may instead bring an individual claim in small claims court, and either of us may go to court for equitable relief against misuse of intellectual property without arbitrating first.

Class waiver. You and we each give up the right to take part in a class action, class arbitration or other representative proceeding. Whether this waiver is enforceable is for a court to decide, not an arbitrator, and if a court finds it unenforceable for a particular claim, the arbitration agreement does not apply to that claim, which goes to court under the governing law section instead.

Opt-out. You may reject this arbitration section entirely, with no penalty and no effect on the rest of these terms, by emailing corrections@mineralrightsatlas.com with the subject line "Arbitration Opt-Out" and an address where we can reach you, within 30 days of first using the site. Since this site keeps no record of who reads it, we have no way to dispute your timing, and in practice you may opt out at any time before a dispute arises. We will confirm by reply.

Governing law and venue

These terms and any dispute arising out of them or the site are governed by the laws of the State of Colorado and applicable United States federal law, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules, except that the Federal Arbitration Act governs the arbitration section, and except that nothing here takes from you the protection of any consumer law of your own state that cannot be waived by agreement. Any claim not subject to arbitration and not brought in small claims court belongs exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Colorado, unless the law of your state guarantees you a different forum.

Changes to these terms

These terms may be revised. When they are, the revised version is posted here and the effective date at the top of this page changes in the same release. Changes apply going forward only, never retroactively to something that already happened.

Severability and survival

If any provision of these terms is held unenforceable, it is limited or removed to the minimum extent necessary and the rest remains in effect, except that the class waiver and the arbitration agreement stand or fall together as described above. The sections on advice, warranty, indemnification, disputes and governing law survive any end of your use of the site. These terms are self-drafted and have not yet been reviewed by an attorney, and we would rather say so than imply otherwise.

Errors

If a page is wrong, the correction route on the corrections page is the fastest way to fix it, and corrections are dated and kept.