About AMR Research

Who publishes it

AMR Research is published by American Mineral Registry, a privately run website. It is not a government agency, a law firm or a nonprofit, and nothing on it is an official record of title.

How the research relates to the business

American Mineral Registry also helps owners sell, through a separate set of pages under Services: it collects written offers and usually makes one itself. It earns money only when a sale it arranges closes, usually by buying an interest and reselling it. That gives it a commercial interest in owners deciding to sell.

Research and the owner services are kept apart: Research pages carry no offers, sign up forms or pop ups, and no menu, link or form on them leads to the owner services. The law is described as the text reads whether or not that favors selling, and corrections are made in public.

Where a Research page lists companies that buy mineral interests and American Mineral Registry fits the page’s question, American Mineral Registry is ranked among them, marked as the publisher of the page, with its pros and cons stated the same way as every other company’s. Counts and censuses, such as the buyer transparency report, never include it. One tool, the letter that asks an operator about held royalties, can be sent to American Mineral Registry from the page when an owner chooses to.

What American Mineral Registry says about its own buying

These are the statements American Mineral Registry makes about its buying on its owner pages, as of October 2026. Research pages that rank American Mineral Registry quote these statements.

It takes requests on interests in every state and the District of Columbia: royalties that pay monthly checks, mineral acres that are leased or unleased, and inherited interests whose paperwork is still being sorted. Asking costs nothing, there is no fee when an owner sells, and nothing comes out of the price for American Mineral Registry; the buyer pays the title search, title insurance and closing costs.

Nothing is signed until every offer is in writing, and every written offer names its buyer. The money moves through a licensed title company, escrow agent or closing attorney, never through American Mineral Registry. Deeds are attorney reviewed, and its land team organizes the sale from the request to the closing. Usually it buys the interest itself and may resell it later; that is how it is paid, and it does not change the price agreed.

How the research is checked

Every finding in the October 2026 release was checked against the saved text it rests on, official wherever the official publisher could be read, and the method is set out in full in the methodology. Each finding carries its own evidence label, so a reader can see which findings rest on official text, which conditions remain open and what a search for a statute covered.

AMR Research is reference material, not legal advice. A decision about a particular property calls for a title attorney licensed in that state, and the state pages list the questions such a review should start with.

Reuse and licensing

AMR’s own text, compilations and data are licensed CC BY 4.0: reuse them with attribution. Statute text and U.S. government data quoted or compiled here are not AMR’s to license; they keep their own terms, and public domain material stays public domain. The press kit has ready citations.

Archival copies

The June 2026 edition of the law dataset is deposited at Zenodo, version DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20935348, concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20935347. That deposit is preserved as published and does not contain release 2026.10.1, which corrects it. A deposit of the October release has been prepared but not yet published.

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Corrections, press and data questions, licensing and teaching requests come here. A correction is checked against the source you cite and, if it changes a finding, logged on changes and corrections with the date, the old and new reading and the source.