Mining Leaseholds and Other Interests

This course explores leases and option agreements applicable to federal, state, and private lands, detailing processes for renewal and replacement leases, including anti-washout provisions. It also examines earn-ins, joint ventures, and other unrecorded agreements, providing insight into managing these contracts effectively. Additionally, the course discusses strategies for addressing dilution, offering practical solutions for maintaining equity and interest in joint ventures and partnerships.

Credit(s)

1

CO Approval ID

842676

Original Program Date

May 17, 2024

Duration

47 minutes

Speakers

Credits

Materials

1 CLE Credit – Approval ID: CO ID - 842676

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MARK BURGHARDT is a partner and the chair of the Oil and Gas Industry Group at Dorsey & Whitney in Salt Lake City, Utah. Mark focuses on natural resource and renewable energy development. He represents oil and gas, mining, and renewable energy clients to acquire, develop, operate, and finance large-scale energy projects. Mark has extensive experience representing clients on surface and mineral leasing, wind and solar leasing, land transactions, federal, state, and local permitting, due diligence, and financing. He frequently represents clients on projects involving some combination of federal, state, private, and Indian lands. He has more than a decade of experience coordinating project development with various federal and state agencies. Mark also represents clients in administrative hearings and litigation related to energy development. He frequently works with and appears before various administrative agencies. He counsels and represents midstream oil and gas and other companies in exercising eminent domain for roads, pipelines, transmission lines, and other facilities. He has litigated ownership and land use disputes in both federal and state court.

GAGE ZOBELL is a partner at Dorsey & Whitney in Salt Lake City, Utah. He focuses primarily on natural resource, agricultural, and renewable energy development. He regularly assists oil & gas, mining, renewable energy, and agricultural clients with acquisition and divestiture, project development, permitting, and operating their projects. Gage enjoys partnering with his clients from the onset of pre-project planning and design, through community outreach and land-use planning, to project development and permitting, and into end-of-life planning and divestiture. He regularly reviews project development plans, surveys, and title insurance commitments, and assists with local land-use planning and title review, due diligence, and curative. Gage assists in project development by helping clients navigate, among other issues, NHPA Section 106 consultations, BLM and USFS land access and approvals, and coordinating land use permitting with state and local agencies. In addition, Gage maintains an active water law practice throughout the Intermountain West. He assists oil & gas, mining, agricultural, and renewable energy companies in due diligence, acquiring, permitting, and defending water assets. His varied water law practice includes permitting saltwater disposal wells, defending water rights through basin adjudications, and representing clients before state agencies in change of use applications. Gage also regularly assists client in acquiring and divesting of water assets through negotiating and drafting water supply agreements, municipal water contracts, water leases, options, and purchase and sale agreements.