Metals X adds high-quality material to Renison Reserve

Metals X has updated its Reserve estimate for the Renison mine in Tasmania, Australia, replacing depleted material with higher grade ore. New drilling results add confidence that the company will be able to continue this trend in the future. The Renison area has been...

AfriTin completes expansion project construction

AfriTin Mining, an existing tin producer in Namibia, has announced that it has finished construction of its Phase 1 Expansion plant. AfriTin has been producing tin from the Uis mine in Namibia since November 2019. The initial “Phase 1” processing plant was...

Alphamin turns back the clock at Mpama North

Alphamin Resources has replaced the tin depleted over the past 2 and a half years of mining at Mpama North, the company announced in a press release including an updated Mineral Resource and Reserve estimate. When Mpama North began production in 2019, it did so with...

Renison pushes through rough quarter

Metals X has released results from what appears to have been a challenging quarter on multiple fronts. During Q2 2022, some 2,154 tonnes of tin were produced from the Renison mine. This was a 13% decline on the first quarter – although the reason for this were partly...

Rusolovo back on track with strong Q2

Rusolovo recovered from a poor Q1 to equal second quarter results from last year. Tin production of 712 tonnes, was in line with last year’s results and up some 31% quarter-on-quarter. However, Rusolovo mined significantly more ore, suggesting lower grades in the...

Refined imports fall on quiet Chinese market

China’s imports of refined tin halved in June as the large arbitrage waned amidst weaker demand for the metal. In September 2021, prices on SHFE overtook the LME to open an import arbitrage, encouraging metal into China. With the global supply of tin tight during this...