At the Mineral Rights Podcast, I only recommend resources that I’ve either created or use myself. There is no fluff here – just the very best stuff that I’ve found to be essential for making the most of your minerals and royalties for both the individual mineral owner as well as the mineral rights professional.
Most Recommended Products & Services
Education
Understand what you own. Gain the power to manage your minerals and royalties.
If you would like to learn more about the different types of mineral and leasehold interests, how to read a legal description, how to perform a title search, and how to identify nearby oil and gas activity and the oil & gas potential with your interests, be sure to check out my Mineral Management Basics Online Course.
Services
Silverheels Investments LLC is owned by Matt Sands (host of this show) and provides mineral rights consulting and advisory services. We provide mineral valuation and other consulting services to meet the needs to mineral owners large and small. We even provide education and assistance in finding and evaluating mineral rights and royalties for purchase.
If you would like to understand what your mineral rights and royalties are worth, please contact us today for a free consultation.
Books
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels (Penguin, 2014), a New York Times bestseller arguing that if we look at the whole picture, human flourishing requires that humanity use more fossil fuels not less. (WSJ review here.) The book has been widely praised as the most persuasive argument ever made for our continuing use of fossil fuels, winning Epstein the “Most Original Thinker of 2014” award from The McLaughlin Group.
Never Split the Difference by former FBI Hostage Negotiator Chris Voss is THE book on negotiation. Whether for your business or your personal life like negotiating a higher salary at work, negotiating the best Oil & Gas Lease or getting top dollar with the sale of a property, this book just works. “In this practical guide, he shares the nine effective principles―counterintuitive tactics and strategies―you too can use to become more persuasive in both your professional and personal life.”
The Prize has been called “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week. Daniel Yergin’s Pulitzer Prize–winning “account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power has been extensively updated to address the current energy crisis”…and tells the epic tale of how the industry came to be.
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara “is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining, as told through the testimonies of the Congolese people themselves. Activist and researcher Siddharth Kara has traveled deep into cobalt territory to document the testimonies of the people living, working, and dying for cobalt. To uncover the truth about brutal mining practices, Kara investigated militia-controlled mining areas, traced the supply chain of child-mined cobalt from toxic pit to consumer-facing tech giants, and gathered shocking testimonies of people who endure immense suffering and even die mining cobalt.”
Disclaimer
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