Canadian companies exploring in Central Africa
Two Canadian-listed juniors have been releasing regular reports on their exploration work in DR Congo and Rwanda. Swiss-based Alphamin Resources is drilling in two locations at the Bisie project in North Kivu, DRC, while Solomon Resources has begun preliminary work at...
Metals X Renison growth continues
Metals X reported a 52% year-on-year increase in December quarter production to 1,800 tonnes of tin-in-concentrate at its 50%-owned Renison mine in Tasmania. The audited results show marginally higher production than announced by one of the mine's Chinese shareholders...
Japan imports up in 2012
Japan's imports of refined tin rose by 1.6% to 27,096 tonnes last year, recovering slightly after a sharp fall in 2011. Indonesian tin increased its share of the Japanese market in 2012 to 54.9%, according to an analysis by trade house Mitsubishi Corporation...
South Korea’s first tin tender of 2013
South Korea's Public Procurement Service (PPS) has issued its first tender this year for refined tin, along with a solicitation of bids to supply nickel and copper. The PPS is seeking 200 tonnes of 99.9% metal for delivery to Incheon port by 7 May. The closing date...
Queensland tin projects fast-tracked
Two Queensland-based companies have announced steps to move forward the start-ups of mine projects in the Mt Garnet area of the state. Following the completion of a deal by a major shareholder to acquire a one million tpy capacity concentrator nine kilometres from its...
Reuters poll picks out tin
The latest six-monthly survey of metals analysts published this week by Reuters identifies tin as the LME metal most likely to have a higher annual average price in 2013 and 2014 compared to last year. The "consensus" view is that all six LME metals will show some...
China refined tin trade patterns changing
China imported 1,908t of refined tin in December 2012, down by 33% month-on-month and 44% year-on-year. The price differential between China and the LME has been very narrow and non-profitable for general imports in December and January, so we expect refined imports...
Indonesian exports remain strong
Refined tin shipments from Indonesia climbed 9.4% in December from a month earlier after prices gained for a second month, Bloomberg reported. Exports rose to 8,689.2 tonnes from 7,946 tonnes in November, according to data from the trade ministry today. Overseas sales...
Renison production rises
Production of tin-in-concentrate at the Renison mine in Tasmania, rose by 16.5% to 5,839 tonnes in 2012, according to un-audited data released by a major Chinese shareholder. Hong Kong-based Goodtop Tin, which has an effective 41% stake in the joint venture between...