Bolivian state companies to boost output in 2009
Bolivia’s state-run Huanuni tin mine is on course to more than double production by March, according to mining and metallurgy minister Luis Alberto Echazú, while a planned furnace refurbishment at the Vinto smelter by August will provide extra capacity...
Timah invests in tin chemicals, new dredges
Indonesia’s PT Timah will roll forward some Rp 530 billion (US$48 million) of planned capital spending into 2009, with most of the total to be spent on a tin chemicals plant and new offshore dredges. President Director of Timah Wachid Usman told Bisnis Indonesia...
Bolivia-Glencore settlement close
A final settlement of compensation terms for the nationalization of the Vinto tin smelter in February 2007 is expected to be announced early in the New Year, a Bolivian government spokesman told La Razon newspaper. The deal will also cover the establishment of a joint...
Singapore refinery for sale
All the assets of Singapore Tin Industries Pte Ltd are to be offered for sale by tender on 15 January 2009. Local consultants Robert Khan, acting for the receiver, has circulated a notice offering a complete 36,000 tpy capacity tin refinery “with two melting and...
Indonesia quota plan latest
Latest news from Indonesia is that the government will implement an ample tin production quota for 2009, although the arrangements for next year still have to be formalised in a ministerial decree. Following the establishment of a national total by the federal...
Indonesia approves one more tin exporter, passes mining law
Indonesia’s trade ministry has issued one more tin export licence, bringing the total number of licenced companies to 23. Meanwhile the country’s parliament was earlier today expected to ratify a new mining law which has been under discussion for the last...
China November tin production down
Provisional base metals production figures released by China’s National Bureau of Statistics put refined tin output in November at 11,408 tonnes. This was 11.2 % lower than a year earlier and 29.7 % down from the previous month. Output will fall further in...
Kasbah triples Moroccan resource estimate
ASX-listed Kasbah Resources has announced a JORC inferred resource of 6 million tonnes at 0.9% tin, containing 52,000 tonnes of tin, at its Achmmach project in Morocco. Recent drilling work has tripled the initial resource estimate. In a statement the company said it...
Yunnan Tin halts production
Yunnan Tin Company, the world’s largest tin producer, stopped production at its main smelting facility on December 8 due to low prices and a lack of tin concentrates, a director at its trade department told Reuters on today. “We stopped production and it...