# Mineral Rights

> Mineral Rights separates ownership into particular powers that may be shared, limited, or transferred

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:real-estate-mortgage:property-rights:mineral-rights` |
| Family | Property Rights |
| Domain | Governance |
| Era | Institutional Age → Collective Age |
| Kind | governance-mechanism |
| Archetype | The Charter |
| Claim layers | empirical, cultural_historical, synthesis, interpretive, symbolic_divinatory |

## What it is

Mineral Rights is a governance mechanism in the Property Rights family, defined here by the function it performs in the property system rather than by label alone.

## What it actually does

Mineral Rights separates ownership into particular powers that may be shared, limited, or transferred.

## Why it exists

It exists because place is unique and immovable while law, capital, information, and human lives must still coordinate around it across time.

## System mechanics

- **Who uses it:** owner, occupant, buyer, seller, lender, investor, steward, regulator
- **Incentives:** legitimacy, clarity, enforceability, administrative efficiency
- **Inputs:** place, people, records, rules, resources, time
- **Outputs:** rights, constraints, uses, relationships, consequences
- **Dependencies:** Land, Authority, Information, Capital, Time

## Archetypal reading

- **Essence:** Mineral Rights separates ownership into particular powers that may be shared, limited, or transferred
- **Gift:** Clarity about mineral rights makes a hidden allocation of place, time, authority, value, or risk available for deliberate choice.
- **Wound / Shadow:** When mineral rights is treated as neutral or inevitable, its costs can be shifted to people who hold less information, authority, liquidity, or mobility.
- **Failure mode:** The failure mode appears when mineral rights is stale, opaque, mispriced, misrecorded, overextended, or applied outside the conditions that made it useful.

## Lenses

- **Personal:** Notice where mineral rights appears as a structure in your own commitments: what is held, promised, priced, protected, excluded, or deferred?
- **Business:** Mineral Rights reveals a handoff among information, authority, incentives, operating work, and capital. Make the owner of each handoff explicit.
- **Financial:** Mineral Rights changes the timing, priority, comparability, liquidity, or distribution of cash flow and risk.
- **Property:** Mineral Rights changes how a physical place can be used, valued, financed, transferred, occupied, maintained, or reclaimed.
- **Community:** Mineral Rights can create benefits inside one parcel while exporting costs or opportunity to neighbors, institutions, or future residents.

## Divination

The Charter enters the reading through Mineral Rights. The issue is not only what is visible; it is which map of ownership, time, risk, authority, or belonging currently governs the situation.

**Question:** Who has legitimate authority under Mineral Rights, and where does that authority stop?

**Guidance:** Name the source, scope, duration, appeal path, and release of authority.

## Game function

Changes what actions are permitted and who may authorize them. Initiative 2.

## Relationships

- **Tenancy by the Entirety externalizes to Mineral Rights.** Tenancy by the Entirety externalizes to Mineral Rights through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Air Rights constrains Mineral Rights.** Air Rights constrains Mineral Rights through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Mineral Rights enables Water Rights.** Mineral Rights enables Water Rights through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Mineral Rights amplifies Title Insurance.** Mineral Rights amplifies Title Insurance through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.

## Oppositions

- Ownership versus Access
- Private Property versus Commons

## Historical lineage and regulatory context

Read Mineral Rights through the lineage of Property Rights: earlier customary or local arrangements became recorded, standardized, financed, regulated, digitized, or contested over time.

Rules vary by jurisdiction and transaction. Use the cited primary sources as starting points and verify current local law, program guides, contracts, and professional standards before operational use.

## Visual direction

Text-free rounded-square enamel artifact for Mineral Rights: a cadastral grid overlaid with colored permissions, gates, and invisible boundaries made visible; vitreous midnight enamel, blackened steel, warm brass, copper accents, mortgage-paper cream, deep green, slate, and sky blue.

## Engine output / Sentinel handoff

The generative interpretation above is preserved as Engine Output. Sentinel factors: jurisdiction-specific rules, factual uncertainty, legal variation, regulatory sensitivity. These factors request contextual review; they do not delete or silently rewrite the candidate.

## Research / provenance

- [Leasehold Property Overview](https://www.gov.uk/leasehold-property/overview) — Government of the United Kingdom; leasehold and freehold tenure.
- [American Land Title Association](https://www.alta.org/) — American Land Title Association; title, escrow, closing, title insurance practice.
