New tin producer for Poland
Europe’s second largest tin recycler, Fenix Metals in Poland, is installing a vacuum distillation unit to produce up to 3,500 tpy of refined tin. The installation is expected to be commissioned in August this year. Fenix Metals commenced operation in 2004 as a...
New tin investment products launched
Dow Jones Commodity Indexes has launched sub-indexes for platinum, lead and tin. The metals are not included in Dow Jones' main benchmark commodity index because not enough is produced globally or traded on exchanges, the company said. The indexes have been licensed...
Syrymbet developing Kazakh tin mine
Syrymbet Mining, part of the Almaty-based Lancaster Group, is to develop a large-scale tin project in northern Kazakstan, starting with a two-year large scale pilot plan operation later this year. The orebody could eventually support a 7,000 tpy Sn mine, using...
A Stellar tin project
ASX-listed Stellar Resources announced yesterday that it has agreed to acquire 60% of the Zeehan tin project in Tasmania from Western Metals Limited. The remaining 40% is held by Gippsland Limited. The A$1.18 million acquisition is being carried out through...
Koba smelter to re-start
Indonesia’s PT Koba Tin is expected to recommence production at its smelter on Bangka island on Monday, according to reports from Reuters and Metal Bulletin. Output has been stopped since 29 January, on the orders of the local police chief, following allegations...
China tin production falls
Refined tin production in China fell by 15.7% year-on year to 19,237 tonnes in the first two months of 2008. The provisional data issued by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) was reported by Reuters yesterday. January production was down 18.0% to 9,890 tonnes and...
Bolivian output to recover in 2008
Provisional official figures show that Bolivian mine production of tin-in-concentrate fell by 9.6% to 15,966 tonnes in 2007, while refined tin output by the country’s two smelters also dropped to 12,251 tonnes. The difference between the mine and refined tin...
Another Indonesian export licence granted
Reuters reports that the Indonesian trade ministry granted an export licence to anpther independent smelter, CV United Smelting, on 5 March. This is the 18th licence to be granted since the ministry’s scheme to monitor and control exports was put in place on 23...
Police continue to block Bangka supplies
Action by police on Indonesia’s Bangka island aimed at controlling ore shipments from illegal mining continues to affect tin supplies from the island. State tin company PT Timah is now facing delays in shipping refined tin, ore supplies to a private smelter have...