Good idea, but unless you have a very large pocket full of money, you ain't buying mineral rights in most places in Texas, for obvious reasons.
It’s still north of $25,000/net mineral acre in the Permian. Still north of that in the Delaware. Get out of the sweet spots and it falls quickly.
Mineral rights in some of the Wolf Camp zone in west Texas were worth $60k per acre to oil companies for drilling/production leases.
The Eagle Ford in S. Texas was $40-50k.
That being said, in this day and age, unless you are in an area that has shifting formations, they pretty much know what's under your land as far as oil and gas.
Partial mineral rights with land sales is far more common than "no mineral rights".
You can retain half the mineral rights and sell the other half with the land. (Or whatever percent is agreed on)
