China clamps down on hidden tin exports

Oct 22, 2015

Favourable price arbitrage since the end of September should have encouraged Chinese tin exports, at least for tin products which are exempt from the 10% export duty charged on refined tin ingot. However this is not evident in the latest official trade statistics...

Indonesia President to call for Apple investment in tin

Oct 20, 2015

Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo will next week ask tech giant Apple to invest directly in sustainable tin mining, a senior cabinet minister told Reuters. The President will travel to Washington and San Francisco on a five-day trip starting 25 October in the...

Production slips at leading tin mines

Oct 8, 2015

Latest production data published in the last week gives a more up-to-date view of production performance by two of the world’s leading underground tin mines, San Rafael in Peru and Renison in Australia. Peru’s energy and mines ministry published monthly...

Indonesia exports re-start at modest pace

Oct 7, 2015

Preliminary figures released by the Indonesian trade ministry to news agencies today showed that 6,391.74 tonnes of tin was checked by surveyor companies prior to export in September. While this was up by 17.5% compared to September 2014, it follows a zero export...

Colquiri seeks investment after fall in profits

Sep 24, 2015

The Bolivian, state-owned, Colquiri Mining Company generated reduced profits of just over US$ 5 million in the first 8 months of 2015, as a result of the falling tin price, according to local news sources. The executive secretary of the mine workers union at Colquiri,...

AETI calls for exploration and technology focus in Indonesia

Sep 17, 2015

The Association of Indonesian Tin Exporters (AETI) has stressed the importance of making changes to the Indonesian tin industry to promote geological exploration and technical development. The President of AETI, Jabin Sufianto, raised the point whilst speaking at the...