The largest coal company in Utah, which employs about 840 people at three central Utah mines, has been sold for an undisclosed price to a consortium led by Murray Energy Corp.
The Sufco, Skyline and Dugout Canyon mines will become part of a new partnership called Canyon Consolidated Resources (CCR). The partnership was formed largely by Murray Energy and the outgoing chairman of Bowie Resource Partners, a Louisville-based company that had owned the three mines. The trio accounted for 9.5 million tons, or almost 85 percent, of the 11.2 million tons of coal mined in Utah last year.