Timah goes for quality not quantity
Announcing its 2012 financial results today, Indonesia's state-controlled tin producer PT Timah emphasised that its strategy is to focus on improving sales margins rather than volumes, which it hopes to achieve by pursuing value-added product sales, a reduced...
Queensland twins focus on tin
Consolidated Tin Mines (CSD) has provided an update on how it will work with partner company Snow Peak Mining (SPM) to re-start the recently acquired Mt Garnet concentrator and related copper mining assets in North Queensland and bring the Mt Garnet tin mine project...
Indonesian exports dip
Indonesian refined tin exports in February dropped 8.7 percent to 8,355 tonnes from 9,155 tonnes in January, data from the trade ministry showed today. "February was the peak of rainy season," Toto Rusbianto, head of mining exports at the ministry, told Bloomberg. The...
UK tin-tungsten project updates
Two Australian-listed companies recently posted updates on projects in the south west UK. Wolf Minerals has awarded a construction contract for its Hemerdon tungsten and tin project in Devon, while New Age Exploration published a maiden JORC resource estimate for the...
Kasbah resource upgrade boosts confidence in project
Kasbah Resources has released a new JORC resource estimate for its Achmmach project in Morocco in which most of the ore tonnage previous classified as "inferred" has now been counted in the higher confidence "Indicated" category. In addition some ore has been...
Comibol production tops 10,000 tonnes
Tin production by Bolivia's state-controlled mines in 2012 exceeded 10,000 tonnes for the first time in recent years. Official figures from the ministry of mines and metallurgy show that output of tin-in-concentrates by Comibol rose by 5.8% to 10,247 tonnes last year....
Update on Abu Dabbab projects
Gippsland Limited announced that it would be stepping up production at its Abu Dabbab alluvial tin project in Egypt from this month and is also working on new financing options for its main Abu Dabbab tantalum/tin/feldspar project. Following the installation and...
The top 10 tin producers in 2012
The table below shows refined tin production by the ten largest companies in 2012. Eight of the companieshave reported final data to ITRI, while the numbers for PT Timah and EM Vinto are provisional estimates. There have been no changes in the composition of...
MSC hopeful on 2013 prospects
Malaysia Smelting Corporation has reported a 25% fall in revenues and a pre-tax loss of RM 62.7 million (US$20.2 million) before unusual items in 2012, compared to a pre-tax profit before unusual items of RM 116.4 million in 2011. However by curtailing operations by...