Minsur appoints new CEO

Feb 7, 2013

Minsur has appointed Juan Luis Kruger Sayan as its new CEO. Mr Kruger was previously in charge of the Peruvian copper/silver operations of South African miner Gold Fields. The company announced the resignation of Lucio David Pareja Chávez as CEO in January. Kruger...

Metals X Renison growth continues

Feb 1, 2013

Metals X reported a 52% year-on-year increase in December quarter production to 1,800 tonnes of tin-in-concentrate at its 50%-owned Renison mine in Tasmania. The audited results show marginally higher production than announced by one of the mine’s Chinese...

Japan imports up in 2012

Feb 1, 2013

Japan’s imports of refined tin rose by 1.6% to 27,096 tonnes last year, recovering slightly after a sharp fall in 2011. Indonesian tin increased its share of the Japanese market in 2012 to 54.9%, according to an analysis by trade house Mitsubishi Corporation...

South Korea’s first tin tender of 2013

Feb 1, 2013

South Korea’s Public Procurement Service (PPS) has issued its first tender this year for refined tin, along with a solicitation of bids to supply nickel and copper. The PPS is seeking 200 tonnes of 99.9% metal for delivery to Incheon port by 7 May. The closing...

Reuters poll picks out tin

Jan 24, 2013

The latest six-monthly survey of metals analysts published this week by Reuters identifies tin as the LME metal most likely to have a higher annual average price in 2013 and 2014 compared to last year. The “consensus” view is that all six LME metals will...

China refined tin trade patterns changing

Jan 23, 2013

China imported 1,908t of refined tin in December 2012, down by 33% month-on-month and 44% year-on-year. The price differential between China and the LME has been very narrow and non-profitable for general imports in December and January, so we expect refined imports...