West Virginia Code § 55-2-1a

Ownership or possession of surface of lands after severance of minerals
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not adverse to owner of minerals.
Whenever title to any minerals in land and the rights appurtenant thereto have been, or shall
hereafter be, severed from title to the surface, the continuity of the possession of such
minerals and the rights appurtenant thereto shall not be deemed to have been broken by
such severance; and ownership or possession of the surface after severancee shall not be
adverse to the interests of the owner or owners of such minerals and appurtenant rights.

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