The minimum amount of royalties to be paid annually to the related party, per the terms of the agreement.

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Represent cumulative annual minimum and/or earned royalty required to be paid to the related party, per the terms of the agreement.

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Carrying value as of the balance sheet date of obligations incurred through that date and payable for royalties.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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-SubTopic 210
-Section S99
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The amount of cash paid for royalties during the current period.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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RELATED-PARTY TRANSACTIONS - Affliliate Royalty Agreements - SGP Land and SGP (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2016	Dec. 31, 2015	Dec. 31, 2014
SGP Land, LLC \| MC Mining LLC
Related Party Transaction
Payments for royalties	$ 0.6	$ 1.9	$ 0.9
SGP Land, LLC \| MC Mining LLC \| Mineral lease
Related Party Transaction
Annual minimum royalties	0.3
Cumulative annual minimum and/or earned royalty payments	6.0
SGP \| Tunnel Ridge \| Coal lease
Related Party Transaction
Annual minimum royalties	3.0
Accrued earned royalties payable	$ 0.9