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Feds grant Utah’s largest coal producer a royalty discount worth up to $19 million for mining hard-to-reach deposits

(Chris Detrick | Tribune file photo) Utah Gov. Gary R. Herbert at the Sufco Mine in Emery County in 2011. Federal regulators have granted a substantial royalty rate discount — worth up to $19 million — due to unspecified geological difficulties in extracting coal in the Upper Hiawatha seam in Sufco’s Quitchupah and new Greens Hollow leases.