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Land, title & right-of-way services in Mineral County, Nevada

Mineral County has 23 authorized federal geothermal leases covering 51,914 acres, 16 of them flagged as non-producing. 229 active right-of-ways cross federal land here, including 41 fiber or telecom grants and 50 transmission or power lines. We run title, leasing, and right-of-way acquisition on both sides of the federal line: the record above, and the private ground it's woven through.

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23
Authorized federal geothermal leases
51,914 acres
229
Active rights-of-way on federal land
6 new in 12 months
41
Fiber & telecom rights-of-way
50
Transmission & power line ROWs
17,083
Open mining claims
11,536 active

Federal records from BLM's Mineral & Land Records System, queried against the Census county boundary. Current to September 1, 2026. Federal cases only; private and state land are not represented. A lease or right-of-way that crosses a county line is counted in each county it touches.

Geothermal on federal land

51,914 acres under federal geothermal lease, 16 leases held without production.

23 authorized leases cover 51,914 acres of federal ground in Mineral County. 16 are flagged non-producing, which means that acreage is being held rather than developed. BLM leaves the production flag blank on 7, so the record understates what is actually online.

1 new lease on 720 acres was authorized in the last twelve months. Somebody is assembling a position here right now, and the private and state inholdings around that federal acreage just became the most interesting tracts in the county.

113 leases on 260,014 acres have been closed out here. That cuts both ways: the resource drew interest, and prior holders let it go rather than develop it. The reason is usually resource, access, or economics, and it is knowable before you commit capital.

Authorized leases23
Acres under authorized lease51,914
Producing0
Non-producing (held, not developed)16
Pending applications0
New leases, last 12 months1 · 720 ac
Closed / relinquished on record113 · 260,014 ac
Rights-of-way · transmission & telecom

50 transmission and power line rights-of-way cross federal ground here.

229 authorized right-of-ways and land use authorizations touch federal land in Mineral County, 6 of them issued in the last twelve months. 28 applications are pending.

Of those, 41 fiber optic or communication grants, 50 transmission, distribution, or energy-facility grants, 1 oil and gas facility grant. The named holders are the companies spending money on linear infrastructure in this county, and the federal segment is usually the shorter part of their route. The private miles in between are the work.

Authorized ROWs by type
Non-Energy Facilities
160
Other Energy Facilities
54
Solar Energy Facilities
6
Fiber Optic Facilities
5
None
2
Oil & Gas Facilities
1
Wind Energy Facilities
1
Holders on record (all types)
  • Sierra Pacific Power Co31 grants
  • Nevada Bell6 grants
  • Sierra Pacific Power Company6 grants
  • Sierra Pacific Power Company*4 grants
  • Arizona Nevada Tower Corp Attn: Prop Management4 grants
  • Hawthorne Utilities3 grants
  • Nv Division of State Lands3 grants
  • New Cingular Wireless Pcs LLC By AT&T Mobility2 grants
Fiber & telecom holders
  • Nevada Bell6 grants
  • Arizona Nevada Tower Corp Attn: Prop Management4 grants
  • Nv Division of State Lands3 grants
  • Mineral Cnty Sheriff2 grants
  • Mineral Television District 12 grants
  • New Cingular Wireless Pcs LLC By AT&T Mobility2 grants
Transmission & energy-facility holders
  • Sierra Pacific Power Co30 grants
  • Sierra Pacific Power Company6 grants
  • Sierra Pacific Power Company*3 grants
  • Sierra Pacific Power Company Dba Nv Energy2 grants
  • Nevada Power Company (Nevada Energy)2 grants
  • Valley Electric Association2 grants
Competing surface use

17,083 open mining claims compete for the same ground.

Mining claims don't stop a geothermal or right-of-way project, but they compete for surface, complicate siting and access, and each claimant is a party you have to deal with. 11,536 are active, 5,240 newly filed, 219 under review. Which ones actually sit in your footprint is a mapping question, and we answer it tract by tract.

Oil & gas

No authorized federal oil and gas leases, but 45 closed leases on record. The ground has been tried before.

Open mining claims17,083
Active11,536
Filed (new)5,240
Under review219
Authorized oil & gas leases0
Oil & gas acres under lease0
What this page can't tell you

The private half of Mineral County isn't in any database.

Everything above is what the federal government controls. It does not show who owns a severed mineral or geothermal estate on private ground, whether that title is clean, what liens sit against it, or which families you'll be negotiating with. That lives in the Mineral County recorder's office, and it is the step that decides whether you can actually lease the ground.

How we work here
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  • Area Assessment
    Flat fee. We pull the full federal record for your area of interest and tell you what's held, who holds it, and what to do next.
  • Diligence & acquisition
    County title, tract by tract, with surface, mineral, and geothermal estates run separately. Then we lease it.
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Source: Bureau of Land Management, Mineral & Land Records System, via gis.blm.gov; county boundary from the U.S. Census Bureau. Queried September 1, 2026. Informational only; not a title opinion or legal advice.
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