A mineral interest is abandoned if it has not been used for a period of twenty-three years or more. Title to an abandoned mineral interest vests in the owner of the surface estate in the land in, or under, which the mineral interest is located on the date of abandonment.

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Source: SL 1985, ch 338, § 2; SL 2016, ch 215, § 1.