Bushveld Minerals to acquire Zaaiplaats tailings
UK AIM-listed Bushveld Minerals plans to acquire the tailings dump of the historic Zaaiplaats tin mine in South Africa, to augment its planned Mokopane hard-rock mining project. Based on historical estimates the tailings contain 2,600 – 4,500 tonnes of tin, while the...
Achmmach DFS completed
Kasbah Resources has published summary details of a Definitive Feasibility Study (DFS) on its Achmmach project in Morocco, and sees an underground mine producing 5,300 tpy of tin-in-concentrate over a nine year life, starting up in the second quarter of 2016. There is...
China refined tin imports drop to 10 year low
China's monthly refined tin imports in February reached the lowest point in the last 10 years. Imports in February were only 210t, down by 82% year-on-year. Affected by the Spring Festival, the whole tin industry was inactive for nearly half of the month. It is quite...
ICDX plans to expand activities
The Indonesia Commodity and Derivatives Exchange (ICDX) continues to attract new tin producer members and will look at establishing tin futures trading after September, Exchange Commissioner Fenny Widjaja told Bloomberg. The exchange has 21 producer members, with six...
PT Koba Tin awaits mining licence under new ownership
Local news media reported that production at the PT Koba tin mining site could revive, with PT Timah holding a 40% stake and the Bangka-Belitung provincial government holding the remaining equity through three regional state-owned enterprises (BUMD). However the...
Stellar announces new drilling programme
Stellar Resources has announced the commencement of a new diamond drilling at the Heemskirk tin project near Zeehan in Tasmania. Two diamond drilling contractors have been engaged to complete a combined programme of 17 holes totalling 4,740 metres. One rig has...
MSC unit to acquire Malaysian tin prospect
Malaysia Smelting Corporation's mining subsidiary Rahman Hydraulic Tin (RHT) has agreed to acquire an 80% stake in SL Tin Sdn Bhd, which has a 15 year mining lease at Sungei Lembing in Pahang state. The sole shareholder of SL Tin, Dayang-Dayang Sdn Bhd, agreed to sell...
Bangka police seize tin ore
Police seized more than 40 tonnes of illegal tin ore at a warehouse in Bangka regency, Bangka-Belitung Islands, on Saturday, a local police chief told the Antara news agency. Bangka Police chief Bagus Rai Erliyanto, said the warehouse owner could provide no legal...
Indonesian navy releases part of seized tin shipment
Following a meeting in Batam yesterday, the Indonesian navy has agreed to release 73 containers of tin out of a total of 134 which it impounded last week, Bloomberg reported. The clearance was announced by Megain Wijaja, CEO of the Indonesia Commodity and Derivatives...