State law reference
Maryland Dormant Mineral Act
What does the Maryland Dormant Mineral Act say? Since October 1, 2011 a surface owner may sue in circuit court to terminate a mineral interest that has been unused, with no notice of it recorded, for 20 or more years before the action. A court order ends the interest and merges it into the surface estate.
Official text cited Researched and checked by American Mineral Registry against the official text; review completed October 1, 2026. Reference research, not legal advice.
- Rule type
- Dormant mineral statute
- Period
- 20 years
- Ends without a surface owner step
- No
- Preservation filing
- Available
- Forced pooling statute
- No statute found
- Surface damages statute
- No statute found
- Deceased or unlocated owner
- Partly checked
How the rule works
Maryland Dormant Mineral Interests Act, 20 years, court action by the surface owner required. Since October 1, 2011 a surface owner may sue in circuit court to terminate a mineral interest that has been unused, with no notice of it recorded, for 20 or more years before the action. A court order ends the interest and merges it into the surface estate. The mineral owner can stop the suit by recording a late notice of intent to preserve and paying the surface owner's litigation expenses, but not if the interest has been unused for 40 years or more. A separate procedure lets a court place a severed interest of an unknown or missing owner in trust and, after 5 uncontested years, convey it to the surface owners.
What has to happen
Action in the nature of a quiet title action, with the notice required by Real Property 14-108, brought by the surface owner in the circuit court where the land lies, whether or not the mineral owner is unknown or missing (15-1203(b), (d)(1)). The order merges the interest, with its surface rights and obligations, into the surface estate in proportion to surface ownership, subject to tax liens; it must identify the interest, each surface estate with tax map and parcel number, each surface owner and, if known, each prior mineral owner, and the clerk records it in the land records (15-1203(d)). The court must allow a late notice of intent to preserve as a condition of dismissal if the mineral owner pays the surface owner's litigation expenses, except where the interest has been unused for 40 years or more (15-1205).
What counts as use or preserves the interest
Active mineral operations on or below the surface of the land or other property utilized or pooled with it, including production, geophysical exploration, exploratory or developmental drilling, mining, exploitation and development
Recording an instrument that creates, reserves or otherwise evidences a claim to or the continued existence of the interest, including one that transfers, leases or divides it
Payment by or for the owner of a tax on a separate assessment of the interest, or of a transfer or severance tax relating to a mineral in it, under Tax Property 8-229
Recording of a judgment or decree that specifically refers to a mineral in the interest
Recording a notice of intent to preserve (15-1204)
A late notice of intent to preserve recorded during the suit with payment of litigation expenses, unless the interest has been unused for 40 years or more (15-1205)
Preservation filing
Notice of intent to preserve, recordable at any time in the county where the land lies; the interest is preserved only in the county where the notice is recorded (15-1204(a)). It may be recorded by the owner, a person legally authorized to act for the owner, or a co-owner for the benefit of any or all co-owners. It must give the owner's name, or state that the owner cannot be determined, and identify the interest by record reference to the creating instrument, by the judgment confirming it, by legal description with the name of the record owner under whom the claimant holds, or by general reference to all the owner's mineral interests in the county if a recorded instrument or judgment evidences them (15-1204(b), (c)).
Scope
- Interests covered
- Any interest in a mineral estate however created, including a fee or lesser interest, any kind of royalty, production payment, executive or nonexecutive right, leasehold or lien in minerals (15-1201). The plaintiff must be a surface owner, meaning a holder of a fee or other freehold interest in the surface, not a right of way, easement or leasehold holder.
- Minerals covered
- All minerals listed in 15-1201(b): gas, oil and oil shale, coal, gaseous, liquid and solid hydrocarbons, cement materials, sand and gravel, road materials, building stone, chemical substances, gemstone, metallic, fissionable and nonfissionable ores, clay, steam and geothermal resources.
- Exceptions
Mineral interests held by the United States or a Native American tribe, except as federal law permits (15-1202(a)(2)(i))
Mineral interests held by the State or a State agency or political subdivision, except as State law permits (15-1202(a)(2)(ii))
Injection of substances for disposal or storage is not use (15-1203(c)(4))
No late notice cure where the interest has been unused for 40 years or more (15-1205(c))
Water rights are not affected, and other procedures for clearing abandoned mineral interests are not limited (15-1202(c), (d))
The section applies notwithstanding contrary provisions in the creating instrument or another recorded document, unless that document provides an earlier termination date (15-1203(e))
- Enactment and amendments
- Enacted by 2010 Laws of Maryland ch. 269 (House Bill 320), effective October 1, 2010, with termination actions allowed on or after October 1, 2011 (15-1203(a)(1)). Amended by 2012 ch. 370 (House Bill 402, effective October 1, 2012; contents and recording of the termination order) and 2016 ch. 398 (House Bill 576, effective October 1, 2016; an act as to one mineral counts as use of the owner's entire interest, tax payments count for the taxed interest and certain untaxed interests of the same owner, and a recorded judgment counts for the interest it specifies).
Dates and what they mean
The rule works through a court decision. A last use date plus the period shows only when a case could begin to be argued, not an outcome.
Nothing happens automatically: the 20 years are counted back from the start of a termination suit, the owner can cure inside the suit unless 40 or more years of nonuse are shown, and the interest ends only by court order. A calculator can show when a 20 year, or 40 year, lookback from the last known use would be complete, not a termination date.
Deceased or unlocated owner
Partly checked What the law of Maryland says when the owner of record has died, is unknown, or cannot be found. It sets out the questions; it does not decide who owns an interest, whether a notice was valid, or whether an interest ended.
Why only partly checked. Maryland Rule 12-704 and the quiet title notice rules that govern publication were not read.
Maryland lets a surface owner sue to terminate a mineral interest unused, with nothing recorded, for 20 or more years, and the suit may proceed whether or not the owner is unknown or missing; it carries the same notice as a quiet title action. Unknown or missing owner is defined by the county records and diligent inquiry near the last residence and includes heirs, successors and assignees. Separately, a court may place such an owner's interest in trust and, after 5 uncontested years and a sworn county records search, convey it to the surface owners. The provisions read do not address the effect of death on the 20 year period, and the Court of Appeals held in Ellis v. McKenzie (2018) that preservation notices recorded after the petition is filed come too late.
- Owner of record has died
- Heirs, successors or assignees of an unknown or missing owner are within the definition (15-1201(g)(2)). The statute says nothing else about a deceased owner of record. In Ellis v. McKenzie (2018) notices to preserve recorded by personal representatives of deceased owners' estates after the petition was filed were held late; the decision does not address notice to a decedent.
- Current owner unknown
- An owner whose present identity cannot be determined from county records or by diligent inquiry near the last residence (15-1201(g)(1)); termination may proceed against such an owner (15-1203(b)(2)) and a trust may be created (15-1206).
- Owner known but cannot be found
- The same definition covers an owner whose location cannot be determined; the statute treats unknown and missing owners the same.
How the nonuse rule treats these owners Statute and court decisions
Termination is only by court action after 20 years of nonuse with no recorded notice, and the action may be brought whether or not the owner is unknown or missing. The provisions read do not say that death pauses or resets the 20 years. The Court of Appeals upheld the Act in Ellis v. McKenzie (2018).
Statute
A surface owner may sue to terminate a mineral interest unused, and with no notice recorded, for 20 or more years before the termination begins. Md. Code, Env. 15-1203(a)(1) and (2)
“(1) On or after October 1, 2011, a surface owner of real property that is subject to a mineral interest may maintain an action to terminate a dormant mineral interest.”
Scope: Md. Code, Environment 15-1201 to 15-1206 (dormant mineral interests), actions on or after October 1, 2011. Does not apply to interests held by the United States, a Native American tribe, or the State or its agencies and subdivisions, except as other law permits (15-1202(a)(2)).
The termination action may be brought whether or not the mineral owner is an unknown or missing owner. Md. Code, Env. 15-1203(b)(2)
“(2) The action may be maintained, whether or not the owner of the severed mineral interest is an unknown or missing owner.”
Scope: Md. Code, Environment 15-1201 to 15-1206 (dormant mineral interests), actions on or after October 1, 2011. Does not apply to interests held by the United States, a Native American tribe, or the State or its agencies and subdivisions, except as other law permits (15-1202(a)(2)).
Court decisions
The Court of Appeals upheld the Act against state constitutional challenges by owners of mineral rights severed over 100 years earlier. Ellis v. McKenzie (Md. 2018), headnote
“HELD: Validity of DMIA sustained.”
Scope: Highest Maryland court; controls statewide. Concerns validity, not notice to deceased or unknown owners. In the case, service was made in person or by publication and some owners were named as deceased with unknown heirs (slip op. at 1 to 2).
Heirs, devisees and successors Statute
Unknown or missing owner includes the heirs, successors or assignees of such an owner.
Statute
Unknown or missing owner is defined by the county records and diligent inquiry near the last residence, and includes the owner's heirs, successors or assignees. Md. Code, Env. 15-1201(g)(2)
“(2) "Unknown or missing owner" includes the heirs, successors, or assignees of an unknown or missing owner.”
Scope: Md. Code, Environment 15-1201 to 15-1206 (dormant mineral interests), actions on or after October 1, 2011. Does not apply to interests held by the United States, a Native American tribe, or the State or its agencies and subdivisions, except as other law permits (15-1202(a)(2)).
Search required to find the owner Statute
Unknown or missing status is measured against the county records and diligent inquiry near the last residence. For the trust conveyance, the trustee must swear to a diligent county search of land, register of wills and circuit court records. No search rule is stated for the termination action itself beyond the quiet title notice incorporation.
Statute
An unknown or missing owner is one whose present identity or location cannot be determined from the county records or by diligent inquiry near the last known residence. Md. Code, Env. 15-1201(g)(1)
“(1) "Unknown or missing owner" means any person vested with a severed mineral interest whose present identity or location cannot be determined: (i) From the records of the county where the severed mineral interest is located; or (ii) By diligent inquiry in the vicinity of the owner's last known place of residence.”
Scope: Md. Code, Environment 15-1201 to 15-1206 (dormant mineral interests), actions on or after October 1, 2011. Does not apply to interests held by the United States, a Native American tribe, or the State or its agencies and subdivisions, except as other law permits (15-1202(a)(2)).
The trustee's conveyance petition needs an affidavit of a diligent inquiry, including a county search of land records, register of wills records and circuit court records, showing the owner cannot be located. Md. Code, Env. 15-1206(c)(2)(ii)5
“An affidavit signed by the trustee, affirming that after conducting a diligent inquiry, including a search in the county where the severed mineral interest is located, performed in accordance with generally accepted standards of title examination of the land records of the county, records of register of wills of the county, and records of the circuit court for the county,”
Scope: Md. Code, Environment 15-1201 to 15-1206 (dormant mineral interests), actions on or after October 1, 2011. Does not apply to interests held by the United States, a Native American tribe, or the State or its agencies and subdivisions, except as other law permits (15-1202(a)(2)). This search standard is stated for the 15-1206 trust conveyance, not for the 15-1203 termination action.
Who gets notice, and how Statute
The termination action requires the same notice as a quiet title action under Real Property 14-108; the trust follows the Maryland Rules. The specific service rules were not reviewed.
Statute
The termination action must be in the nature of, and requires the same notice as, a quiet title action under Real Property 14-108. Md. Code, Env. 15-1203(b)(1)
“(1) The action must be in the nature of and require the same notice as is required in an action to quiet title as set forth in § 14-108 of the Real Property Article.”
Scope: Md. Code, Environment 15-1201 to 15-1206 (dormant mineral interests), actions on or after October 1, 2011. Does not apply to interests held by the United States, a Native American tribe, or the State or its agencies and subdivisions, except as other law permits (15-1202(a)(2)). The notice rules of the quiet title law and the Maryland Rules were not reviewed.
For the trust, notice procedures, petition forms and hearings follow the Maryland Rules. Md. Code, Env. 15-1206(h)(2)
“(2) Under this section, procedures for notice to interested persons, the forms of petitions, and the conduct and requirements at a hearing shall be as provided by the Maryland Rules.”
Scope: Md. Code, Environment 15-1201 to 15-1206 (dormant mineral interests), actions on or after October 1, 2011. Does not apply to interests held by the United States, a Native American tribe, or the State or its agencies and subdivisions, except as other law permits (15-1202(a)(2)). The Maryland Rules were not reviewed.
Notice by publication Not addressed in the provisions read
The provisions read do not state when publication is allowed; they defer to quiet title notice and the Maryland Rules, which were not reviewed.
How the owner responds or preserves Statute and court decisions
A notice of intent to preserve may be recorded at any time, by an owner, an authorized person or a co owner, even stating the owner cannot be determined. During a termination action the owner may record a late notice and pay the surface owner's litigation expenses, unless the interest has been unused 40 years or more. A notice recorded after the petition is filed is late, even when recorded by an estate's personal representative or an heir (Ellis).
Statute
A mineral owner may record a notice of intent to preserve at any time; it preserves the interest in the county where recorded. Md. Code, Env. 15-1204(a)
“(1) An owner of a mineral interest may record, at any time, a notice of intent to preserve the mineral interest or a part of a mineral interest. (2) A mineral interest is preserved in the county in which the notice is recorded.”
Scope: Md. Code, Environment 15-1201 to 15-1206 (dormant mineral interests), actions on or after October 1, 2011. Does not apply to interests held by the United States, a Native American tribe, or the State or its agencies and subdivisions, except as other law permits (15-1202(a)(2)).
A co owner may record the preservation notice for any or all co owners, and the notice may state that the owner cannot be determined. Md. Code, Env. 15-1204(b)
“(iii) A co–owner, for the benefit of any or all co–owners. (2) A notice recorded under subsection (a) of this section shall contain: (i) 1. The name of the owner, or co–owners, of the mineral interest; or 2. If the identity of the owner cannot be determined, information that states that the owner cannot be determined;”
Scope: Md. Code, Environment 15-1201 to 15-1206 (dormant mineral interests), actions on or after October 1, 2011. Does not apply to interests held by the United States, a Native American tribe, or the State or its agencies and subdivisions, except as other law permits (15-1202(a)(2)).
In a termination action, the court must let the mineral owner record a late notice of intent to preserve as a condition of dismissal if the owner pays the surface owner's litigation expenses. Md. Code, Env. 15-1205(b)
“the court shall permit the owner of the mineral interest to record a late notice of intent to preserve the mineral interest as a condition of dismissal of the action, if the owner of the mineral interest pays the litigation expenses incurred by the surface owner”
Scope: Md. Code, Environment 15-1201 to 15-1206 (dormant mineral interests), actions on or after October 1, 2011. Does not apply to interests held by the United States, a Native American tribe, or the State or its agencies and subdivisions, except as other law permits (15-1202(a)(2)).
The late preservation option is unavailable if the interest has been unused for 40 years or more before the action. Md. Code, Env. 15-1205(c)
“(c) This section does not apply in an action in which a mineral interest has been unused in accordance with § 15-1203 of this subtitle for a period of 40 years or more preceding the commencement of the action.”
Scope: Md. Code, Environment 15-1201 to 15-1206 (dormant mineral interests), actions on or after October 1, 2011. Does not apply to interests held by the United States, a Native American tribe, or the State or its agencies and subdivisions, except as other law permits (15-1202(a)(2)).
Court decisions
A notice of intent to preserve recorded after the termination petition was filed, including by personal representatives of deceased owners' estates and by an heir, was late, because the action commences when the initial petition is filed. Ellis v. McKenzie, No. 16, September Term, 2017 (Md. filed January 26, 2018), slip op. at 21 to 22 (the court then concludes the three notices were late)
“Nothing in the Act alters the ordinary rule that the "commencement" of an action, here to terminate mineral rights, is the date of filing of the initial petition. Maryland Rules of Procedure, Rule 12-704, "Termination of dormant mineral interest," states that, after October 1, 2011, a surface owner "may initiate an action to terminate."”
Scope: Highest Maryland court; controls statewide. The interests had been unused 40 years or more, so the late preservation option of 15-1205 was unavailable. The trial court's finding of diligent inquiry for unknown heirs was not challenged, so the decision does not set a search standard.
Court, receivership or trust for missing owners Statute
A circuit court trust for severed mineral interests vested in unknown or missing owners, with a trustee who may lease to the surface owner and, after 5 uncontested years, conveys the interest to the surface owners.
Statute
If title to a severed mineral interest is vested in an unknown or missing owner, the circuit court may, after notice and hearing, place it in trust, appoint a trustee and authorize a lease to the surface owner. Md. Code, Env. 15-1206(a)
“(a) If the title to a severed mineral interest is vested in an unknown or missing owner, the circuit court of the county where the severed mineral interest is located may on petition, and after notice and a hearing: (1) Place the severed mineral interest in trust by order;”
Scope: Md. Code, Environment 15-1201 to 15-1206 (dormant mineral interests), actions on or after October 1, 2011. Does not apply to interests held by the United States, a Native American tribe, or the State or its agencies and subdivisions, except as other law permits (15-1202(a)(2)).
If the unknown or missing owner does not contest the trust within 5 years after the order, the trustee must petition to terminate the trust and convey the interest to the surface owners. Md. Code, Env. 15-1206(c)(1)
“does not contest a trust created under subsection (a)(1) of this section on or before 5 years after the date that the court issued the order creating the trust, the trustee shall file a petition to terminate the trust and to convey title to the severed mineral interest to the surface owners.”
Scope: Md. Code, Environment 15-1201 to 15-1206 (dormant mineral interests), actions on or after October 1, 2011. Does not apply to interests held by the United States, a Native American tribe, or the State or its agencies and subdivisions, except as other law permits (15-1202(a)(2)).
What a title review must establish
- Was the interest unused, with no notice of it recorded, for 20 or more years before the termination action began?
- Was quiet title notice given to every record owner, heir and successor, and how were unknown or missing owners served?
- Has any owner, co owner or authorized person recorded a notice of intent to preserve in the county?
- Is the interest in a 15-1206 trust, and has 5 years passed since the trust order with a sworn county records search?
Dates. 15-1203(a): actions on or after October 1, 2011; unused and no notice recorded for a period of 20 or more years preceding the commencement of termination. 15-1205(c): late preservation unavailable if unused for a period of 40 years or more preceding the commencement of the action. 15-1206(c)(1): trustee petitions to convey if the trust is not contested on or before 5 years after the date the court issued the order creating the trust. None of these provisions mentions death of the owner. The rule finder does not calculate this period.
What AMR searched. Read in full at mgaleg.maryland.gov: Environment 15-1201 to 15-1206 and Real Property 14-108 (only because 15-1203(b)(1) incorporates it). Not read: Real Property Title 14 Subtitle 6 (quiet title procedure), the Maryland Rules on notice and publication, estates and trusts law and unclaimed property law. Case law: Ellis v. McKenzie (Court of Appeals, 2018) read; Harvey v. Sines (Court of Special Appeals, reported, 2016, constitutional challenge) located but only scanned; CourtListener searches blocked by rate limit. Maryland Rule 12-704 (termination of dormant mineral interest) is cited in Ellis but was not read. A point marked not addressed means only that the provisions read do not address it; probate, quiet title and other general procedures may still apply and were not reviewed.
Not settled by this review.
What notice and publication the quiet title procedure (Real Property Title 14 Subtitle 6 and the Maryland Rules) requires for unknown heirs in a 15-1203 action.
What Maryland Rule 12-704 requires for notice to unknown or missing owners in a termination action; cited in Ellis, not read.
Harvey v. Sines (Md. Ct. Spec. App. 2016, reported) notes the Act treats known and unknown owners differently; not read in full.
Checked October 6, 2026. Also in the dormant mineral rule finder.
Forced pooling
No statute found No compulsory pooling or unitization provision was found in Maryland's oil and gas statute (Environment 14-101 to 14-125). It regulates royalties under voluntary unit operation agreements (14-113), bars a production or storage well within 1,000 feet of the property boundary (500 feet for coalbed methane) without agreement of the adjoining owners unless the Department grants an exception after hearing (14-112), and bans hydraulic fracturing (14-107.1).
Searched: mgaleg.maryland.gov Environment Article Title 14 Subtitle 1: every section from 14-101 to 14-125 (and 14-107.1) fetched and searched for 'pool', 'unitiz' and 'integrat'; one web search for a Maryland compulsory or forced pooling statute found none. Other articles (for example Natural Resources) and COMAR regulations were not searched.
Surface damages
No statute found No statute requiring oil and gas operators to notify and compensate surface owners for surface damage was found in Environment 14-101 to 14-125. Section 14-111 requires each permit holder to post financial assurance and carry liability and pollution insurance that extend to the owners of the surface and subsurface property; that is security for claims, not a compensation duty.
Searched: mgaleg.maryland.gov Environment Article Title 14 Subtitle 1, sections 14-101 to 14-125 read in full; other articles and COMAR were not searched.
Taxes
Broad personal income tax: yes. Nonresidents owe Maryland tax on income derived from real or tangible personal property located in Maryland, whether derived directly or from a fiduciary, because that income is excluded from the nonresident subtraction. Official text cited Source and notes.
Severance or production tax. Not part of AMR’s October 2026 tax review, which covered 25 producing states; that is not a finding that Maryland levies none. Use the state revenue agency’s own pages.
Not tax advice. Rates change and the cited source controls.
Sources for the dormant mineral rule
Each source was read on the date shown. Where an official site was not available, the official page was read through a dated Internet Archive copy and that is stated.
- Md. Code, Env. § 15-1203(a)(1)
“On or after October 1, 2011, a surface owner of real property that is subject to a mineral interest may maintain an action to terminate a dormant mineral interest.”
- Md. Code, Env. § 15-1203(a)(2)
“(i) The mineral interest is unused for a period of 20 or more years preceding the commencement of termination of the mineral interest; and (ii) Notice of the mineral interest was not recorded during the period of 20 or more years preceding the commencement of termination of the mineral interest.”
- Md. Code, Env. § 15-1203(c)(1)(i)
“Active mineral operations on or below the surface of the real property or other property utilized or pooled with the real property, including production, geophysical exploration, exploratory or developmental drilling, mining, exploitation, and development of minerals”
- Md. Code, Env. § 15-1203(c)(4)
“The injection of substances for the purpose of disposal or storage does not constitute use of a mineral interest.”
- Md. Code, Env. § 15-1204(a)
“An owner of a mineral interest may record, at any time, a notice of intent to preserve the mineral interest or a part of a mineral interest.”
- Md. Code, Env. § 15-1205(b)
“the court shall permit the owner of the mineral interest to record a late notice of intent to preserve the mineral interest as a condition of dismissal of the action, if the owner of the mineral interest pays the litigation expenses incurred by the surface owner”
- Md. Code, Env. § 15-1205(c)
“This section does not apply in an action in which a mineral interest has been unused in accordance with § 15–1203 of this subtitle for a period of 40 years or more preceding the commencement of the action.”
- Md. Code, Env. § 15-1206(a)
“If the title to a severed mineral interest is vested in an unknown or missing owner, the circuit court of the county where the severed mineral interest is located may on petition, and after notice and a hearing:”
- Md. Code, Env. § 15-1202(a)(2)
“Held by the State or an agency or political subdivision of the State, except to the extent permitted by State law.”
- 2010 Md. Laws ch. 269, § 3
“SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect October 1, 2010.”
Open questions for a specialist
This review did not settle these points. They are where a Maryland title attorney or landman should look first.
No Maryland appellate decisions under 15-1201 to 15-1206 were researched.
How a 15-1206 trust for an unknown or missing owner interacts with a 15-1203 termination suit on the same interest should be checked by a specialist.
Common questions
Can mineral rights lapse in Maryland?
Yes, but not by itself (Maryland Dormant Mineral Interests Act, 20 years, court action by the surface owner required). In Maryland an interest ends only after the surface owner or another party takes the steps the statute requires, such as a notice or a court action, and each step, with its citation, is under How the rule works.
How long before unused mineral rights lapse in Maryland?
20 years. Unused for 20 or more years preceding commencement of the termination, and no notice of the interest recorded during that period (Env. 15-1203(a)(2)). A qualifying act by or under authority of the owner as to any mineral in the interest counts as use of the entire interest that owner holds (15-1203(c)).
How can an owner keep a Maryland mineral interest from lapsing?
By recording the filing the statute provides before the period runs. What it must contain and where it is recorded are under Preservation filing above.
Does Maryland allow forced pooling?
A search of Maryland’s official code found no forced pooling statute. The scope of that search is under Forced pooling above.
Does Maryland require payment for surface damage?
A search of Maryland’s official code found no surface damages statute of that kind. Leases, deeds and general law can still give the surface owner a claim.
What changed
The June 2026 edition listed Maryland as Can lapse / revert, lapse period 20 years. Release 2026.10 replaced that entry with the reviewed rule above, and retired the June risk score and ranking for every state. Release 2026.10.1 added the deceased or unlocated owner section. See all changes.
Cite this page
American Mineral Registry. "Maryland Dormant Mineral Act." U.S. Mineral Rights Law Atlas, release 2026.10.1, October 6, 2026. https:// americanmineralregistry.com/ research/ states/ maryland-dormant-mineral-act
[Maryland Dormant Mineral Act](https:// americanmineralregistry.com/ research/ states/ maryland-dormant-mineral-act), U.S. Mineral Rights Law Atlas, American Mineral Registry, release 2026.10.1 (2026-10-06).
<a href="https:// americanmineralregistry.com/ research/ states/ maryland-dormant-mineral-act">Maryland Dormant Mineral Act</ a>, U.S. Mineral Rights Law Atlas, American Mineral Registry, release 2026.10.1 (2026-10-06).
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