Mpama South enters production

May 30, 2024

Alphamin Resources Corp (TSXV: AFM; JSE AltX: APH) has brought its major expansion at Bisie, DR Congo, into production. Alphamin’s Mpama South project is an expansion to the existing Mpama North mine at Bisie, which contributed 4% of the world’s mined tin supply in...

Suspended Penouta mine to partially reopen

May 1, 2024

The operators of the Penouta tin-tantalum-niobium mine in Spain, which faced provisional suspension of the Section C permit in October 2023 following an environmental complaint, have announced a partial reopening while the company awaits the court’s decision....

Alphamin announces increased earnings on sales recovery

Apr 18, 2024

Bisie mine operator Alphamin Resources (TSXV: AFM; JSE AltX: APH) has announced a 156% quarter-on-quarter increase in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) in the first quarter of 2024. In the quarter ending 31 March 2024, ore...

Cornish Metals on track to deliver PEA in second quarter

Apr 18, 2024

Cornish Metals (AIM/TSX-V: CUSN) has announced the company is on track to complete the South Crofty Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) in the second quarter of 2024. The company has been working on the refurbishment of the historic South Crofty mine in Cornwall,...

Woodcross opens Uganda’s first tin refinery

Apr 18, 2024

Tin miner Woodcross Resources has launched its refinery at Mbarara, Uganda – the first in the country. The company has been developing this facility since a series of regulatory changes prohibited concentrate exports, and has become the first integrated tin...

M23 rebels disrupt tin supply routes in key region of North Kivu

Apr 4, 2024

Members of the M23 non-state armed group have continued to expand their territory in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, an important region for global supply of the 3Ts – tin, tantalum, and tungsten. Since mid-2022, the M23 rebels have controlled areas...