UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): September 16, 2022

DORCHESTER MINERALS, L.P.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware	000-50175	81-0551518
(State or other jurisdiction of	(Commission	(IRS Employer
Incorporation)	File Number)	Identification No.)

3838 Oak Lawn, Suite 300, Dallas, Texas 75219

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (214) 559-0300

N/A

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)

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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of Each Class	Trading Symbol(s)	Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Units Representing Limited Partnership Interest	DMLP	NASDAQ Global Select Market

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b‑2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b‑2 of this chapter).

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Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

On September 16, 2022, Dorchester Minerals, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the “Partnership”), entered into a Contribution and Exchange Agreement, dated September 16, 2022 (the “Contribution and Exchange Agreement”), with Excess Energy, LLC a Texas limited liability company (“Excess”), the terms and conditions of which provide for Excess to contribute certain interests in oil and gas properties, rights and related assets (the “Properties”) to the Partnership in exchange for 851,423 common units representing limited partnership interests in the Partnership. The Properties consist of mineral, royalty and overriding royalty interests representing approximately 2,100 net mineral acres located in 12 counties across Texas and New Mexico. The Contribution and Exchange Agreement included customary representations, warranties, covenants and indemnities of the Partnership and Excess and also provided for Excess to pay the Partnership at closing an amount of cash equal to the aggregate amount of cash receipts from or attributed to the Properties that were received by Excess during the period beginning on July 1, 2022 and ending on September 30, 2022.

No material relationships exist between the Partnership and Excess.

The foregoing description of the Contribution and Exchange Agreement is not complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of such agreement, which is filed as Exhibit 2.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K, and is incorporated into Item 1.01 by reference. The Contribution and Exchange Agreement has been included to provide unitholders with information regarding its terms. It is not intended to provide any other factual information about the Partnership, Excess or their respective affiliates. The representations, warranties, and covenants contained in the Contribution and Exchange Agreement were made only for purposes of the Contribution and Exchange Agreement and as of the specific dates set forth therein, were solely for the benefit of the parties thereto, may be subject to limitations agreed upon by the contracting parties, including being qualified by confidential disclosures made for the purposes of allocating contractual risk between the parties thereto instead of establishing these matters as facts, and may be subject to standards of materiality applicable to the contracting parties that differ from those applicable to unitholders. Unitholders are not third-party beneficiaries under the Contribution and Exchange Agreement and should not rely on the representations, warranties, and covenants or any descriptions thereof as characterizations of the actual state of facts or condition of the parties thereto or any of their respective affiliates. Moreover, information concerning the subject matter of representations and warranties may change after the date of the Contribution and Exchange Agreement, which subsequent information may or may not be fully reflected in the Partnership’s public disclosures.

Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure.

On September 19, 2022, the Partnership issued a press release announcing the entry into the Contribution and Exchange Agreement (the “Press Release”). A copy of the Press Release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and incorporated herein by reference.

Limitation on Incorporation by Reference:

In accordance with general instructions B.2 and B.6 of Form 8-K, the information in this Item 7.01 and Exhibit 99.1 is furnished and shall not be deemed “filed” for the purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or otherwise subject to the liability of that section, and shall not be deemed incorporated by reference into any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits.

2.1 Contribution and Exchange Agreement dated September 16, 2022, by and between Dorchester Minerals, L.P., and Excess Energy, LLC. (portions of this exhibit have been omitted because such information is both (i) not material and (ii) would be competitively harmful if publicly disclosed).

99.1 Press release dated September 19, 2022.

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SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

	DORCHESTER MINERALS, L.P.
	By:	Dorchester Minerals Management LP, its general partner
		By:	Dorchester Minerals Management GP LLC, its general partner
Date: September 21, 2022		By:	/s/ William Casey McManemin
			William Casey McManemin
			Chief Executive Officer

INDEX TO EXHIBITS

Item Exhibit

2.1 Contribution and Exchange Agreement dated September 16, 2022 by and among Dorchester Minerals, L.P. and Excess Energy, LLC. (portions of this exhibit have been omitted because such information is both (i) not material and (ii) would be competitively harmful if publicly disclosed).

99.1 Press release dated September 19, 2022.

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