Round Top is heading toward production. The state bought Brewster Ranch for the Permanent School Fund and rare-earth mineralization turned up in it. There is a real land story here — and we would rather show you an honest preview of where we are than a polished page implying a product that isn't finished.
The known Texas occurrences drawn from USGS, GLO and public filings — Round Top, Sierra Blanca, the Quitmans, Brewster Ranch, the Llano pegmatites, the Trans-Pecos belt and more.
Minerals atlasWhere a site sits inside our 13 parcel counties, jump to the ownership underneath. Outside them, the atlas is geography without ownership.
Parcel handoffState lease and Permanent School Fund tract layers are on the build plan. Round Top itself sits on PSF land leased through the GLO — that structure matters.
On the roadmapDetecting severed mineral estates out of the deed feed is designed but not shipped. When it works we'll say so here, and not before.
On the roadmapWhat the preview can and can't answer today.
Here is the one that matters for minerals — and it is not built yet. No single record below means much on its own — the signal is the join, and every ingredient stays inspectable so you can check the working.
Where the minerals were split from the surface, and who holds which half.
Designed, NOT built. Needs deed coverage in the mineral counties — we have none of them.
Round Top, Sierra Blanca, the Quitmans, Brewster Ranch, the Christmas Mountains, Barringer Hill, the Llano pegmatites and Cambrian sands, Van Horn–Allamoore talc, South Texas uranium, East Texas Smackover lithium and the Trans-Pecos belt.
Every note is written from USGS, GLO or press sources. No owner names, no parcel data, no values — which is also why we can show it at this stage.
The heat surfaces and footprints are indicative demonstration geometry, not surveyed boundaries, and the page says so on the page rather than in a footnote.
State lease and Permanent School Fund tract layers are the next real data to land here.
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Round Top is headed toward production and the state's newest mega-ranch turned out to hold rare-earth mineralization. The paper trail: GLO leases, deeds, entity filings.
Corridor WatchThe Texas PUC has an August cluster of 765-kV route orders — dockets 59315, 59182 and 59336. The chosen route decides who gets an easement letter.
Realtor Intel38,246 single-family homes in Williamson County are owned by someone whose mail goes to a different ZIP — about one in six. The highest-yield farm list in the county.
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