Alphamin Resources has been making good use of the high tin prices, according to its latest quarterly update. The company sold 3,351 tonnes of tin-in-concentrate at a realised price of US$ 23,083/tonne. This was a significant improvement over the final quarter of...
Alphamin beat guidance to produce nearly 2,900 tonnes of tin-in-concentrate in the final quarter of 2020. Tin production at the company’s Mpama North mine increased 13% quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) to post a new quarterly record. The output of 2,898 tonnes of...
Quarterly tin production fell at Alphamin‘s Bisie mine as the company looks to achieve its annual target of 10,000 tonnes of tin-in-concentrate. While the coronavirus pandemic abated slightly in the third quarter, the world – and Africa particularly – continued...
Reuters has reported that Alphamin are now exempt from export rulings that required miners to smelt concentrates within the DRC. According to the news agency, miners producing cobalt, tin, tungsten, tantalum, and/or copper were required to upgrade their concentrates...
Alphamin Resources plans to further improve tin recovery at its Bisie mine, while expanding the Mineral Resource into the Mpama South ore body. A lot of work has gone into improving the processing plant at Bisie. “When we first commissioned the gravity concentration...
Alphamin has announced record production in Q2 due to higher-than-expected tin grades and a lack of impacts from the coronavirus. While Alphamin processed just 8% more ore at its Bisie site than in Q1, tin-in-concentrate production increased 29% to a quarterly record...
Alphamin Resources‘ tin concentrate production fell by 5% during the first quarter due to lower tin grades. Although the company increased processing recoveries, mine head grades fell significantly. Alphamin has targeted 71% tin recovery at its processing plant...
Alphamin Resources, which owns and operates Bisie in the DRC, has published a new NI 43-101 report. Bisie came online at the end of 2019 and is set to be one of the largest tin mines in the world. However, just as the mine was starting up, Alphamin was forced to...
Alphamin Resources has announced its guidance for 2020, with tin-in-concentrate production of 9,000 – 10,000 tonnes expected. This comes on the back of positive Q4 2019 production. The company expects tin concentrate production in Q4 to test the upper reaches of...
The International Tin Association (ITA) held its eighth annual London Tin Seminar on Friday 29 November. The event played host to a range of delegates, from tin producers to investors. The global tin market may be small compared to other base metals, but it...
