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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-26-032990"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DMLP"
cik: "0001172358"
company_name: "DORCHESTER MINERALS, L.P."
filed_at: "2026-10-20T15:46:46+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-10-20T15:48:02.773440+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Dorchester Minerals to acquire ~4,300 Williston Basin net royalty acres for 1.25M common units

## Summary
- Contribution and exchange agreement signed Oct 16, 2026 with Hillside Exploration Assets, LLC, an unrelated Texas LLC; structured as a non-taxable unit issuance, closing expected Oct 30, 2026.
- Consideration is 1,250,000 DMLP common units; no cash purchase price or implied valuation disclosed in the filing or press release.
- Properties are mineral and royalty interests in producing and non-producing acreage totaling ~4,300 net royalty acres across three counties in the Williston Basin, North Dakota.
- Contributor will pay Dorchester at closing cash equal to proceeds from the properties received on or after July 1, 2026; deal subject to customary closing conditions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-26-032990
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DMLP
- cik: 0001172358
- company_name: DORCHESTER MINERALS, L.P.
- filed_at: 2026-10-20T15:46:46+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1172358/000143774926032990/0001437749-26-032990-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1172358/000143774926032990/dmlp20261019_8k.htm

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