Raton, Springer, Cimarron: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Colfax County, in the Raton Basin coalbed methane field.
Colfax County is a one-field, one-ranch county. The coalbed methane under the Vermejo Park Ranch west of Raton has produced since 1999, and it has been declining every year for more than a decade, from 27 billion cubic feet in 2012 to under 11 in 2025. Almost all of it belongs to one private mineral estate, which makes Colfax the rare New Mexico county where the honest first question is whether you own anything that produces at all.
What produces here. Raton Basin coalbed methane. High River Resources Operating, with offices in Farmington and a Dallas parent, is the only producer, running about 850 Colfax wells on the VPR A, B and D leases that reported 959,704 Mcf in August 2026. County gas has fallen every year from 27.0 Bcf in 2012 to 10.8 Bcf in 2025. There is no oil production of note, and no current horizontal drilling.
Whatever you own here, producing royalties, non-producing acreage, or an inherited fraction split among family, we will identify it from whatever paperwork you have, value it off the actual wells and activity, and show you the reasoning with the offer. Free, no obligation, and no pressure: if keeping it is the right answer, we will say so. If you hold a fee interest outside the ranch, the value is in the leasing optionality, and we will say plainly what that is worth today. Inherited it? Start with inherited mineral rights in New Mexico.
Vermejo and Raton Formation coals on the Vermejo Park Ranch west of Raton, producing since October 1999, drilled to the top of the Pierre Shale on roughly 160-acre spacing.
Nearly the entire play sits on the Vermejo Park mineral estate, so third-party royalty owners are rare; most Colfax minerals outside the ranch are unleased and quiet.
Wherever your tract sits in Colfax County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
We buy in every New Mexico county, including ones without a page here. See the full county index, or start with how to sell New Mexico mineral rights.
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What New Mexico mineral rights are worth, information only, with this month's activity. Unclaimed New Mexico royalties: where the money goes and how an heir claims it.
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Prefer the phone? Call or text 918-984-1645 and you will get Stephen, the owner, not a call center. If we miss you, we text back the same day.
In a hurry? Text a photo of a royalty check stub to 918-984-1645 and our preliminary offer puts a written number in front of you within about two business days. It holds for 7 while you decide.