Latest developments in Asian tin trading

May 23, 2015

At the ITRI China International Tin Forum in Shanghai last week speakers from the Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) and Indonesia Commodity and Derivatives Exchange (ICDX), Asia’s two “new” tin exchanges, described recent and planned developments,...

Korea stockpile announces latest tin tender result

May 14, 2015

South Korea’s Public Procurement Service (PPS) bought 200 tonnes of standard grade MSC tin from Daewoo at its latest tender on 12 May, at a US$288 c.i.f. premium to the LME price. This is the fourth tin tender so far in 2015, with cumulative purchases to date...

Minsur production and revenue fall in Q1 2015

May 7, 2015

Minsur has published its 2015 first quarter results which reveal a 31% year-on-year fall in tin production at its Peruvian operations to 4,776 tonnes in Q1 and a 43% decrease in net revenue from tin operations to US$ 105.2 million. The lower tin production was a...

Yunnan Tin stops production for maintenance for 45 days

May 5, 2015

Yunnan Tin announced that it had stopped production for maintenance at its main smelter in Gejiu from 27th April. It is the second major producer in China to announce a production halt in April. The country’s third largest producer, China Tin, has halted its...

Metals X reports planned lower production in Q1 2015

Apr 28, 2015

Australian tin producer, Metals X, has reported reduced production at its 50%-owned Renison mine in Tasmania of 1,578 tonnes of tin in Q1 2015, down 19% on final quarter of 2014. Production fell due to lower throughput and head grades of 156,642 tonnes of ore at...