Value · Mississippi · Updated 2026-11-02

What are mineral rights worth in Mississippi?

Not a number per acre. The honest answer for Mississippi depends on whether your interest produces, what the wells around it are doing this quarter, and what the state's law lets a buyer deduct. Here is how we value Mississippi minerals when we buy them, with this month's activity, so you can check anyone's offer, including ours.

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Updated 2026-11-02 with Enverus activity. Written by Stephen Clayman, career landman and owner of Berlin Royalties, a buyer in Mississippi. Read it knowing that.

Information only, not an offer. Nothing on this page is a price, a quote, or a commitment to buy at any level. It explains how Mississippi minerals are generally valued so you can judge offers. A real offer, ours or anyone's, is built from the specific wells, title, decimal, and market on the day it is made, and it can be higher or lower than anything this page might lead you to expect.

What are mineral rights worth in Mississippi, in one paragraph?

A producing Mississippi royalty is worth a multiple of what it pays, set by how fast the wells are declining and what gas and oil are expected to sell for: commonly expressed as some number of years of current checks, lower for mature wells and higher for young ones, and only a tract-specific valuation says which. Non-producing Mississippi minerals are worth what the drilling around them makes likely, which ranges from nearly nothing in a quiet county to thousands of dollars an acre ahead of active rigs. Any offer that does not say which of those it is pricing is a guess.

What is being drilled in Mississippi right now

From Enverus, as of 2026-11-02: 1 active rig in Mississippi, 9 drilling permits approved in the last 90 days, and 0 wells reporting first production in the last 90 days. Moderate activity: location value exists in specific counties and is close to zero elsewhere, so the county matters more than the state.

Which Mississippi counties carry location value this quarter

Rigs running now: Jasper County (1 rig).

Permits or new completions, no rig at the moment: Amite County, Jones County, Smith County, Wilkinson County.

Quiet this quarter (producing interests valued on cash flow; non-producing acreage priced conservatively): Adams County, Clarke County, Covington County, Forrest County, Franklin County, Greene County, Hinds County, Jefferson County, Jefferson Davis County, Lamar County, Lincoln County, Madison County, Marion County, Monroe County, Perry County, Pike County, Rankin County, Simpson County, Walthall County, Wayne County, Yazoo County.

Each county page carries its own counts, formations, and the operators permitting there.

How we value a producing Mississippi royalty

Start with the checks: the last twelve months of statements, or a single stub, which carries the operator, your decimal, and the property. Pull the wells in the unit from public records and Enverus, fit a decline to their production history, apply a price deck, discount the stream, and add a risked value for any undrilled locations the operator's permits suggest. Then subtract what the law allows to come out first: severance tax. The method, with a worked example, is on our valuation methodology page, and the value calculator runs the lump-sum-versus-hold comparison on your own numbers.

How we value non-producing Mississippi minerals

Off the map, not off a formula. The questions are: is the tract inside an active unit or a permitted one, what did the nearest wells make in their first year, how many undrilled locations the spacing allows, and how likely the operator is to drill them in the next few years given its rig count and its permits. A tract three miles from a rig in Mississippi is a different asset from a tract three miles from nothing, and the price difference is a multiple, not a percentage. Our non-producing minerals page walks through it.

Who is running the wells that set Mississippi values

By producing well count: EXXON, HIGHMARK ENERGY OPERATING, FORMENTERA PARTNERS, EQV OPERATING LLC. The operator on your check is not offering to buy your minerals, but its permits and its rig count are the best public signal of what your acreage is worth next year.

The Mississippi price-per-acre question

People ask for a price per acre because that is how land sells. Minerals do not sell that way, and the per-acre figures that circulate online are averages of unlike things: a producing Haynesville royalty and a quiet tract of the same size can differ by a hundredfold. We will give you a per-acre number for your tract, with the wells and the permits it came from, free. We will not give you one for Mississippi, because there is no such number.

How to check any Mississippi offer

  1. Ask which wells, what decline, and what price deck the number assumes. A buyer who did the work can answer in a paragraph.
  2. Compare the implied multiple of your annual checks against the offer checker.
  3. Check the buyer in the county records: see who buys mineral rights in Mississippi.
  4. Read when not to sell before you sign anything.

Want the actual number for your Mississippi minerals?

Text a photo of a check stub or a deed to 918-984-1645, or send the county and a legal description. You will get a written number within two business days with the wells, the decline, and the price deck it came from, and it holds for 7 days while you check it against anyone else's. Free, and the same answer whether or not you sell.

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Rig, permit, completion and operator counts are from Enverus as of 2026-11-02. Berlin Royalties is the trade name of Berlin Resources LLC, a mineral buyer and landman shop in Tulsa, and a potential counterparty to any sale you make, which is why we would rather you checked the arithmetic than took our word. This page is general information, not an offer, an appraisal, or legal or tax advice; any offer we make is a separate written document and may differ from anything described here.

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