what do mineral rights consist of?
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depends on the state but usually \n\nGenuine minerals (non-organic rocks)\nCoal/Oil\ndiamonds\nalmost anything below the ground\n\nbut in the mineral rights contract it may specify rights you do not have.
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The crystal structure. All minerals can be classified within 14 basic crystal lattice arrangements of the atoms in three dimensions. These 14 lattice arrangements fit within 7 larger crystal systems, allowing the classification of atomic structure of all known minerals.  To see diagrams of these go here:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_structure
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The stability of individual minerals, or combinations of minerals is governed by the energetics of the minerals themselves.  More specifically, it is governed by the thermodynamics of the minerals or the possible combinations of minerals that may form from the chemical elements present.  In essence, thermodynamic principles require that the most stable state of any chemical system be the state characterized by the lowest possible Gibbs Free Energy (G).  Reduced to the simplest of terms, G represents a combination of the "heat content" or enthalpy (H) of a mineral phase (or assemblage of phases), and the product of temperature and entropy (S)  [G = H-TS].  The most stable state of a system is the one with the lowest Gibbs Free Energy.  It turns out that both H and S are functions of temperature and pressure, consequently G is dependent on P and T, and hence mineral stability is strongly controlled by temperature and pressure.
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I think the rules vary from state to state. You will need to check the specific rules for ND.\n\nWhere I live the mineral rights owner can access the property to exploit the minerals but must pay the surface owner damages.
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Hey! Can I do your homework for you?? Cause you could have searched it on your own...\n\nNatural resources are naturally occurring substances that are considered valuable in their relatively unmodified (natural) form. A commodity is generally considered a natural resource when the primary activities associated with it are extraction and purification, as opposed to creation. Thus, mining, petroleum extraction, fishing, and forestry are generally considered natural-resource industries, while agriculture is not. The term was introduced to a broad audience by E.F. Schumacher in his 1970s book Small Is Beautiful.\n\nNatural resources are often classified into renewable and non-renewable resources. Renewable resources are generally living resources (fish, coffee, and forests, for example), which can restock (renew) themselves at approximately the rate at which they are extracted, if they are not overharvested. Non-living renewable natural resources include soil, as well as water, wind, tides and solar radiation — compare with renewable energy.\n\nMineral resources are generally non-renewable and, once a site's non-renewable resource is exhausted, it is considered to be useless for future extraction, barring technological improvements that allow economic extraction from the tailings. Technological improvements may also allow future extraction of metals at lower concentrations than at previous times, which converts low-grade resources into ore, and may re-open or expand mines.\n\nBoth extraction of the basic resource and refining it into a purer, directly usable form, (e.g., metals, refined oils) are generally considered natural-resource activities, even though the latter may not necessarily occur near the former.\nRainforest on Fatu-Hiva, Marquesas Islands\nEnlarge\nRainforest on Fatu-Hiva, Marquesas Islands\n\nNatural resources are natural capital converted to commodity inputs to infrastructural capital processes. They include soil, timber, oil, minerals, and other goods taken more or less as they are from the Earth.\n\nA nation's natural resources often determine its wealth and status in the world economic system, by determining its political nfluence. Developed nations are those which are less dependent on natural resources for wealth, due to their greater reliance on infrastructural capital for production. However, some see a resource curse whereby easily obtainable natural resources could actually the prospects of a national economy by fostering political corruption.\n\nIn recent years, the depletion of natural capital and attempts to move to sustainable development have been a major focus of development agencies. This is of particular concern in rainforest regions, which hold most of the Earth's natural biodiversity - irreplaceable genetic natural capital. Conservation of natural resources is the major focus of Natural Capitalism, environmentalism, the ecology movement, and Green Parties. Some view this depletion as a major source of social unrest and conflicts in developing nations.
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oxygen, nitrogen, every fuckin mineral and more on the periodic table...take chemistry
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The best answer is C. Minerals are inorganic, have a definite homogeneous chemical structure, are solid and have a crystalline structure formed by geologic processes.
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The right of self determination\nThe right to own and rule land\nThe right to establish families, business\nDiscrimination prevention - all born equal
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An ore has minerals or metals suspended in a base, unwanted material that needs to be refined to make the pure mineral or metal usable.\n\nA gem is a crystaline material that has some intrinsic value.
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go to the sudanese energy ministry.  oil rights should be public information.
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Natural resources:   \ncobalt, copper, niobium, tantalum, petroleum, industrial and gem diamonds, gold, silver, zinc, manganese, tin, uranium, coal, hydropower, timber\n\nLook for stuff like this here:\nhttp://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/cg.html
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I'm going to turn to Wikipedia's definition of a mineral first because I like it (I quote)\n\n"To be classified as a "true" mineral, a substance must be a solid and have a crystal structure. It must also be an inorganic, naturally-occurring, homogenous substance with a defined chemical composition.”\n\nWhat does this mean in terms of your question? There are countless different physical properties of minerals, but you must understand that a couple of key things make a mineral fit the definition. It must be inorganic (Encarta is just wrong here- petroleum and coal are not minerals in any sense and are organic compounds that came from living organisms) . It must have a consistent and homogenous chemical structure (another reason coal and oil don't qualify). It must be naturally occurring. Chemists can make lots of compounds in the laboratory that don't occur naturally. So the most important properties are the chemical composition which must not be a mixture (like a rock has). Obsidian has a consistent chemical structure but because it has no crystal structure it is considered a mineraloid, not a mineral. Cristobalite crystals may occur within obsidian, and cristobalite is thus considered a mineral. Another example of how crystal structure determines a mineral is to compare calcite and aragonite. Both have the exact same chemical formula, calcium carbonate. Because they have different crystal structures they are different minerals. \n\nSo the short answer:\n1. inorganic\n2. crystal structure \n3. chemical homogeneity\n4. naturally occurring\n5. solid
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A mineralogist simply stated is someone who studies minerals.\n\nMinerals can include anything from diamonds & other gems (precious & semi-precious) to rock forming minerals such as quartz & feldspar.
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If you discover the mine and have legal right to the property and mineral properties (many people don't know that they can own land but not what's underneath it) then you can sell these rights to a mining company.  There is no percentage unless you state that in the contract selling the rights to the mining company.
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If I remember correctly from my science classes, a mineral is essentially a solid substance that has a crystal structure.  (That's two right there - It's solid, and has to be crystal in structure.)  It also has to be inorganic and occurs naturally, and also homogenous.  Not to mention the fact that it's supposed to have a defined chemical composition.  That's more than four characteristics, but I believe them to be all true of minerals....
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A mineral.  It's one of the characteristic differences between a rock and a mineral, that the mineral has a defined composition that will crytsalize.
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The only renewable mineral deposit that I saw I was in Andes (it was called 'salar '). The miners work this mine periodically (harvest), therefore it had thermal sources. This sources , deposit (all the time)  thermal waters, with same kind of minerals solved in it.\n\nRenewable mineral resources on to other planets? I don't know!