Fair Value Of Equity Securities Without Readily Determinable Fair Value, Gained As A Result Of Terminated Contract

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Fair Value Of Property, Plant And Equipment Gained As A Result Of Terminated Contract

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Payments To Acquire Property, Plant, And Equipment And Mineral Rights

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Total Gain (Loss) On Contract Termination

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Amount of investment in equity security without readily determinable fair value.

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Gain (loss) related to the termination of a contract between the parties. The termination may be due to many causes including early termination of a lease by a lessee, a breach of contract by one party, or a failure to perform.

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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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Number of operating segments. An operating segment is a component of an enterprise: (a) that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same enterprise), (b) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the enterprise's chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and (c) for which discrete financial information is available. An operating segment may engage in business activities for which it has yet to earn revenues, for example, start-up operations may be operating segments before earning revenues.

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The cash outflow from the acquisition of a mineral right which is the right to extract a mineral from the earth or to receive payment, in the form of royalty, for the extraction of minerals.

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Nature of Operations and Basis of Presentation (Narrative) (Details) $ in Thousands		3 Months Ended			9 Months Ended
	May 02, 2022 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2022 USD ($)	Jun. 30, 2022 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2021 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2022 USD ($) segment	Sep. 30, 2021 USD ($)
Long-term Purchase Commitment [Line Items]
Number of operating segments \| segment					3
Gain on contract termination		$ 0		$ 10,333	$ 14,000	$ 10,333
Expenditures for property, plant and equipment and acquisition of mineral interests		17,086		$ 19,407	42,004	$ 35,534
Coal Mining \| Falkirk
Long-term Purchase Commitment [Line Items]
Total gain on contract termination			$ 30,900
Gain on contract termination	$ 14,000
Fair value gained from contract termination	4,100
Fair value of privately-held company	12,800
Investment	$ 5,000
Minerals Management \| Texas Portion, Permian Basin and Wyoming Portion, Powder River
Long-term Purchase Commitment [Line Items]
Expenditures for property, plant and equipment and acquisition of mineral interests					$ 12,300
Payments to acquire royalty interests		$ 11,400