Depends on in what form he's making use of them... most small holders end up leasing them to a bigger operator for a set period of time, with a cut to the agent who made the deal happen. Those leases have gotten a lot more lucrative over the past 20 years or so than they were in the 90s.
Texas will get state-funded universal healthcare and Tesla will be able to sell you a car right there in downtown Dallas before mineral rights are seriously reformed. For non-Texans: those first two things have two of the more powerful lobbies in Texas against them, but not the even more widely-distributed power of mineral rights holders.
Texas will get state-funded universal healthcare and Tesla will be able to sell you a car right there in downtown Dallas before mineral rights are seriously reformed. For non-Texans: those first two things have two of the more powerful lobbies in Texas against them, but not the even more widely-distributed power of mineral rights holders.