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Weather, Ore Limits have restrained Indonesia Tin Output

May 11, 2009 @ 12:21 pm In Tin Market News

Few tin smelters in Indonesia, the world's top exporter of the metal, will be able to crank up output to exploit higher prices because wet weather and depleting reserves have crimped access to ore.

Patris Lumumba, director of PT Bangka-Belitung Timah Sejahtera, stated:

It's getting more difficult now to mine tin because reserves are depleting.

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