"Before you buy a property, because you are keen to start benefiting from all the minerals, determine whether those minerals will belong to you if you purchase the land."
"if you purchase a piece of land and become the owner thereof, you do not necessarily possess the rights to all the minerals hidden beneath your land. This is because there are two rights applicable to land ownership..."
"...if you do not live in an area that has been used, historically, for the extraction of a specific mineral, chances are high that no one else owns the mineral rights to your property."
"...there is a chance that if you live in an area where mineral extraction and exploitation are very common, you probably do not own the mineral rights to your property."