[header] How to find mineral rights [title] Understand fee simple title. [step] Fee simple title is ownership in land, which includes the surface, the subsurface, and the air above the property. If there are minerals below the surface, then the " fee simple " holder should own those mineral rights. 
[substeps] Fee simple title, however, can be carved up. Whoever owns fee simple title to land could sell the subsurface rights to the land, which includes the minerals below the surface.