who care why she don’t. Its her land. She owns it and pays the taxes.
You don’t pay taxes on mineral interest unless it’s producing.
If you owned 99.99% of the mineral interest in a piece of land and she owned just .01% mineral interest in the same land, should her .01% interest be allowed to control 100% of the interest, or should your 99.99% interest be the controlling interest?
How do you feel about a 1/4 acre owner preventing her neighbor from selling the mineral rights to their 100 acres?