Coal exploration, development and mining company MC Mining has signed the first coal offtake agreement for hard coking coal (HCC) to be produced at its Makhado hard coking and thermal coal project, in Limpopo. The agreement was entered into between MC Mining subsidiary Baobab Mining & Exploration – the owner of the Makhado project – and Chinese State-owned enterprise Huadong CoalTrading Centre (HDCTC), as well as the China Forestry Group.