Mixed production results from Minsur’s Brazilian operations

While production at the Pitinga mine fell in Q3, tin output at the company’s Pirapora smelter rose by 7%. Minsur released its consolidated Q3 results on Monday revealing that its Brazilian subsidiary, Taboca, saw a 21% year-on-year fall in Q3 tin production from its...

Minsur reports lower Q3 tin production

Tin miner Minsur has published its Q3 2015 individual results, which show that tin production from the San Rafael mine in Peru fell 15% to 4,852 tonnes during the quarter compared to the same period of the previous year, mostly due to anticipated lower head grades....

Pitinga production capacity to fall 33%

Peru based tin miner Minsur has announced a 33% reduction in tin production capacity from its Pitinga tin mine in Brazil for nine to twelve months as it carries out emergency repairs. The company was forced to halt production in August following discovery of water...

Minsur reports fall in production in Q2

Minsur’s Q2 results for its Peruvian operations revealed an 11% year-on-year fall in tin production in refined tin production at its Pisco smelter to 5,019 tonnes in Q2 2015, while production at the San Rafael mine fell by 8% to 4,954 tonnes of...

Production stabilising at San Rafael mine

Latest mine production statistics released by Peru’s energy and mines ministry on Tuesday show that production at Minsur’s San Rafael mine, the country’s only tin operation and the world’s largest, was 1,622 tonnes of tin-in-concentrate. While...

Minsur announces production increase from Pitinga in Q1

Minsur’s Q1 consolidated results reveal that its Brazilian subsidiary, Taboca, saw a 20% year-on-year increase in Q1 tin production from its Pitinga mine to 1,585 tonnes in 2015. This brings Minsur’s total tin production in Q1 to 5,883 tonnes. The increase...

Minsur production and revenue fall in Q1 2015

Minsur has published its 2015 first quarter results which reveal a 31% year-on-year fall in tin production at its Peruvian operations to 4,776 tonnes in Q1 and a 43% decrease in net revenue from tin operations to US$ 105.2 million. The lower tin production was a...

Peruvian tin production falls in early 2015

Official figures from Peru’s Energy and Mines Ministry reveal a year-on-year fall in mined tin production in January and February 2015 of some 24%, primarily due to depletion of mineral resources at Minsur’s San Rafael operation, the country’s only...

Brazil boosts Minsur production in 2014

Minsur’s Q4 2014 consolidated results reveal a 3% increase in total tin production from its Brazilian and Peruvian operations to 29,234 tonnes in 2014 compared to the previous year. This is despite a 5% fall in tin production in Q4 2014 to 7,734 tonnes from the...

Minsur production higher in 2014 despite fourth quarter results

Individual Q4 results for Minsur’s Peruvian operations have been released showing a 7% fall in tin production for the quarter, to 6,190 tonnes, compared with the final quarter of 2013, although total production for the year just exceeded that of 2013...