MSC provides smelter conversion update
Malaysia Smelting Corporation (MSC) has provided an update on its efforts to convert a lead smelter in Port Klang, Malaysia, into a tin smelting plant. The company plans to test-fire the converted furnace by the end of 2018 and start smelting from the plant from the...
Elementos sign Malaysian project MOU
Australian tin explorer and developer, Elementos Limited, has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Empire Tin Mining Sdn Bhd to negotiate a Farm-in and Joint Venture agreement on the Temengor Tin Project in Perak, Malaysia. The Temengor...
New tin innovations for solar cell interconnection
A set of patents published this month focussed on tin innovations for solar cell interconnection, reflecting the importance of this exponentially growing new market. At present cells are typically joined using a mainly tin-lead solder-coated copper wire and lines of...
Intensity of tin use in lead-acid batteries increasing
Several indicators suggest that intensity of tin use in lead-acid batteries is increasing, both in continued transition from older flooded types to higher performance products and in increasing tin content of grid alloys. Major supplier Exide previously published a...
Bolivian production stable in Q1
Bolivia’s tin output remained fairly stable in the first quarter of 2018, according to official government statistics, with the output of refined tin up 1.3% year-on-year to 3,858 tonnes and tin mine production effectively unchanged at 4,375 tonnes. Refined tin...
LME approves YUNXIANG brand listing
On May 25th the London Metal Exchange (LME) announced the approval of the YUNXIANG tin brand as a listed LME brand, making it deliverable against the LME Tin contract. The YUNXIANG brand is produced by Gejiu Kaimeng Industry and Trade Co., Ltd., a Chinese tin smelter...
China’s refined tin output up 8% in early 2018
China’s refined tin production totalled 56,800 tonnes between January and April 2018, up by 8% compared to the same period of last year, according to a recent survey carried out by the International Tin Association. The increase in refined production from January to...
Minsur Q1 output in line with guidance
Refined tin production from Minsur’s operations in Peru and Brazil totaled 4,983 tonnes in Q1, the company has reported, unchanged year-on-year and in line with company expectations. The output from Peruvian operations totaled 3,483 tonnes of refined tin in Q1, down...
DRC mining regulations drafted as expected
Detailed regulations drafted for implementation of the new DRC mining code have been finalised, but have made limited concessions to the requests of large mining companies in the country, Reuters has reported. The draft of over 700 pages recently circulated by the...