Family-owned & Ohio-based · Buying & leasing minerals across the Utica Shale
Family-owned & Ohio-based
Call (740) 555-0147Family-owned · Eastern Ohio · Utica Shale
Buckeye Minerals is a family-owned Ohio company — not a broker, not a middleman, not a fund from three states away. We buy and lease oil & gas mineral rights across the Utica Shale, and we do it the way business used to be done: in plain English, in writing, and without a moment of pressure.
Or just call (740) 555-0147 — you’ll get a person, not a phone tree.
You’ve Seen the Letters
Postcards from Texas. “Final offers” from companies with no address. Landmen who call at supper and can’t say who they’re really buying for. If you own minerals in eastern Ohio, you’ve been treated like a line on somebody’s spreadsheet for years.
We started Buckeye Minerals because we thought the people who own this land — the families who cleared it, farmed it, and paid taxes on it through good years and lean ones — deserved better than that.
We’re a family office, which is just a formal way of saying: it’s our own family’s money. Nobody to flip to. Nobody to answer to but our own name — and around here, your name still means something.
Our Word
When you call, you reach the family that owns the company — not a leasing agent working a quota three states away.
Explained line by line, with the numbers behind it. Our offers stay open 30 days, because good decisions aren't made under a stopwatch.
We put it in writing that you should. An informed seller is the only kind of seller we want across the table.
We buy or lease what's underneath — the surface stays yours. Your fields, your timber, your fences, your gates.
Title work, deed preparation, recording, notary, closing — on us. The price we put in writing is the check you receive.
No exploding deadlines, no supper-time phone calls, no second voicemail. If the answer is no, we thank you for your time and mean it.
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Ohio family owned. Our money, our name, our home state.
0
pressure tactics, exploding deadlines, or supper-time calls.
30
days every written offer stays on the table. Minimum.
9+
eastern Ohio counties where we buy and lease minerals.
The buckeye isn’t a fast tree. It puts its roots down first — and then it stays.
That’s the difference between us and the letters in your mailbox. Flippers buy your minerals to resell them to a fund before the ink dries. We buy to hold — the way your family held.
Why “Buckeye”
A family office is exactly what it sounds like: one family’s own money, invested with one family’s own judgment. When we purchase your mineral rights, they don’t get bundled, securitized, or traded to strangers. They go into the same portfolio we’re building for our own children — right alongside minerals under land we’ve known our whole lives.
That long view is why we can pay fair prices: we’re not skimming a flipper’s margin off the top of your value.
Read Our StoryHow It Works
Selling or leasing minerals is a big decision, but it shouldn’t be a confusing one. Here’s exactly what happens when you reach out — from first hello to money in the bank.
Start With Step OneFifteen minutes on the phone — or across your kitchen table, if you'd rather. You tell us about your land and what you're weighing. We tell you honestly whether it makes sense to keep talking. Sometimes the right answer is “hold on to it,” and we'll say so.
Our team researches your title at the county courthouse, pulls the production data on wells in your section, and models what your minerals are realistically worth. It costs you nothing, and you get to see the work.
You get a real number, in writing, with the reasoning behind it — good for 30 days. Take it to your attorney, your accountant, your kids. We encourage all three.
When you're ready — not before. We pay all closing costs, a notary can come to you, and funds arrive by wire or a check you can walk into your own bank. Most closings take 30–45 days from a signed agreement.
Kitchen-Table Decisions
The shrinking royalty check
Shale wells produce most of their oil and gas in the first few years, then decline — sharply. Many owners are surprised to learn a lump sum today can be worth more than decades of dwindling checks. We'll show you the actual decline curve on the wells near you, and you can judge for yourself.
Eleven grandchildren, one deed
Fractional interests are where family harmony goes to struggle. Every generation, the pieces get smaller and the paperwork gets bigger. Many families sell simply to turn a complicated inheritance into something clean: money, divided evenly, with no title headaches for the kids.
The farm comes first
Selling minerals doesn't touch your surface. Families use the proceeds to pay off the operating loan, put up the new barn, buy the neighboring forty, or fund a retirement that doesn't depend on commodity prices. The farm stays the farm — with less debt on it.
Every family’s situation is different — these are the patterns, not promises. Whatever yours looks like, we’ll give you a straight read on it, free.
Where We Work
The Utica Shale runs deep and rich under eastern Ohio, and every county — every township — is different. We know which units are producing, which operators are permitting, and what minerals have actually been trading for. Because this isn’t a territory to us. It’s home.
Own minerals in a neighboring county? Call anyway — if we’re not the right buyer, we’ll tell you who might be.
No. Your surface — the land you walk, farm, hunt, and live on — is completely separate from the mineral estate. A mineral sale conveys only what's thousands of feet down. Your deed to the surface doesn't change, and neither does anything you see out your window.
From data, not from a script. We look at actual production from wells in and around your unit, operator activity and permits nearby, your acreage and royalty terms, and what comparable minerals have genuinely sold for. Then we show you that work — line by line — with the offer.
Nothing, ever. The research, the title review, and the written evaluation are free, with no obligation. If you take our number to another buyer and beat it, you'll have made money by calling us. We're comfortable with that.
A free, written evaluation from a family that will still be your neighbor either way. No cost. No obligation. No pressure — that’s our word, and around here a word still counts.