Wolf Minerals to revive Hemerdon project
Australian junior Wolf Minerals has acquired the Hemerdon tungsten-tin deposit in Devon, UK and plans to re-activate the project. Wolf has been negotiating the acquisition since June, during which time trading in its shares on the Australian Stock Exchange have been...
Timah to increase production
Indonesia’s PT Timah plans to produce and sell 60,000 tonnes of tin in 2008, Finance Director M Krishna Syarif told reporters in Jakarta today. Production in 2007 is estimated to be between 57,000 – 59,000 tonnes according to reports by Bloomberg and...
New capex and reserve estimates for Pirquitas project
Silver Standard Resources Inc has published new figures on its Pirquitas silver-tin-zinc project in Argentina, following the revision of a previous feasibility study. Capital costs of the project are now estimated at US$220 million, substantially greater than the...
Collingwood mine continues to under-perform
Metals X, which plans to reactivate the Renison and Mt Bischoff tin mines in Tasmania next year, continues to face operating problems at its Collingwood mine in northern Queensland. Production from the mine in the July-September quarter was only 391 tonnes of...
Indonesian tin quota proposal
The governor of Bangka-Belitung province told a news media briefing in Jakarta today that a proposal to introduce tin export quotas from next year has been submitted to Indonesia’s president by the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry. The ministry “has...
China remains net importer in October
Official Chinese customs figures released today showed that the country remained a net importer of unwrought tin last month. Exports of refined tin and alloy were only 733 tonnes (56.3% lower than in October 2006), while imports were 2,469 tonnes (59.1% higher than...
DLA offers 4,000 tonnes
The US government’s Defense Logistics Agency has issued a solicitation of offers for 4,000 tonnes of tin. Offers for the metal, all stored in a DLA warehouse in Hammond, Indiana, are due in by next Wednesday 28 November. Interested parties are invited to bid for...
YTC comments on growth plans
Yunnan Tin Company expects to produce 60,000 tonnes of tin this year, but will hold back on further increases in production due to concerns about raw material supplies and prices. “We need to secure supplies of raw materials. We also want to control output. If...
Production increases at Huanuni on track
Comibol’s Huanuni mine in Bolivia produced 708 tonnes of tin-in-concentrate in October, according to local press reports quoted by BN Americas. “It's an acceptable figure considering that there have been no concrete investments,” the general...