[doolie]

In my area some land owners felt they had made a big score selling drilling rights to natural gas drillers. BUT this is coal country and much of the land had underground mineral rights sold long ago. There are companies researching those rights and figuring out the current owners after the original Coal companies were sold and went under. The current rights owners inform the land owners that they sold what they did not own. Big score GONE. Research your property thouroghly before making a move.