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Mineral acreage acquired.

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Amount of write-down of assets recognized in the income statement. Includes, but is not limited to, losses from tangible assets, intangible assets and goodwill.

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Properties And Equipment (Details)	Mar. 31, 2020 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2020 USD ($) a	Sep. 30, 2019 USD ($) a Item $ / a	Sep. 30, 2018 USD ($)
Property Plant And Equipment [Line Items]
Impairment		$ 29,904,528	$ 76,824,337
Percentage of discount rate for developed location	10.00%		10.00%
Undeveloped location assigned value	$ 0		$ 0
Fair value of discounted cash flows and market quoted amount			9,100,000
Proceeds from sales of assets		4,228,868	19,515,735	$ 1,085,137
Gain (loss) on sale of oil and gas properties		3,997,436	18,973,426
Decrease in net book value			$ 786,000
Number of non-core wells sold \| Item			112
Mineral and non-participating royalty acreage sold \| a			890
Net gain (loss) on sale of assets		$ 3,973,321	$ 18,730,197	$ (660,597)
Gain (Loss) on Asset Sales [Member]
Property Plant And Equipment [Line Items]
Gain (loss) on sale of oil and gas properties			$ (243,228)
Eddy County, New Mexico [Member]
Property Plant And Equipment [Line Items]
Mineral acreage sold \| a		530
Proceeds from sales of assets		$ 3,376,049
Gain (loss) on sale of oil and gas properties		3,272,499
Decrease in net book value		$ 104,000
Northwest Oklahoma [Member]
Property Plant And Equipment [Line Items]
Mineral acreage sold \| a		5,925
Proceeds from sales of assets		$ 769,745
Gain (loss) on sale of oil and gas properties		717,640
Decrease in net book value		$ 52,000
Kingfisher, Canadian [Member]
Property Plant And Equipment [Line Items]
Mineral acreage acquired \| a		700
Purchase price of mineral acreage acquired		$ 9,293,384
Garvin County, Oklahoma [Member]
Property Plant And Equipment [Line Items]
Mineral acreage acquired \| a		700
Purchase price of mineral acreage acquired		$ 9,293,384
Oklahoma and North Dakota [Member]
Property Plant And Equipment [Line Items]
Mineral acreage acquired \| a			790
Purchase price of mineral acreage acquired			$ 5,727,257
Net mineral price per acre \| $ / a			7,200
Other Assets [Member]
Property Plant And Equipment [Line Items]
Impairment			$ 300,000
Fayetteville Shale [Member]
Property Plant And Equipment [Line Items]
Impairment	19,300,000
Eagle Ford [Member]
Property Plant And Equipment [Line Items]
Impairment	7,300,000
Other Producing Assets [Member]
Property Plant And Equipment [Line Items]
Impairment	$ 2,700,000
Eagle Ford Assets [Member]
Property Plant And Equipment [Line Items]
Impairment			$ 76,600,000