From a section, a parcel, or a single name, MineralScout identifies every mineral owner, resolves their canonical identity across records, and skip-traces contact info — including heirs of deceased owners.
The same owner appears as 'Robert J. Smith,' 'R.J. Smith,' 'Bob Smith,' and 'Robert James Smith' across different records. MineralScout unifies these into a single canonical Party record with all aliases attached.
When an owner is deceased and no probate was recorded in the mineral county, the chain goes cold. Our pipeline cross-references probate records from residence counties, obituaries, and relative databases to reopen the chain.
Living owners often don't live anywhere near the minerals they own. We find them — current address, phone, email — using a combination of public records and commercial data.
Mineral ownership research uses a specific vocabulary. Our glossary defines every term.