Tin Market Traces Recovery
Despite concerns over the euro-zone economy, demand in the region is helping to drive up the price of tin with both European and Japanese buyers dominating the market.
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Indonesian Tin Exports Benefiting from Weather Improvements
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
An increase in shipments of Indonesian refined tin exports reported in April was partially the result of a return to more favorable weather conditions from the first three months of this year.
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Fired Earth Chooses Impress UK for Paint Cans
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Fired Earth, a high street store, has chosen Impress UK to supply the cans for its new range of paints they call the National Trust. Impress UK produces about 60 million tin cans for paints and coatings at its Norwich site every year. And this project will help them reinvent their business.
Matt Sykes, UK field [...]
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Tin Prices: Climbing the Ladder of Recovery
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
As with other industrial metals, the spot price of tin is correlated with inventory levels on the supply side and the global economic recovery on the demand side. Over the last year the spot price of tin on the LME has moved from an average price last April of US $12165.8 per tonne to a current valuation of US $18695 per tonne, a gain of almost 54 percent.
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Cadbury Cans Its Roses, Tin In Epicentre
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Cadbury has abandoned its tin cans for cardboard boxes, in an attempt to go green this Christmas. Could this prove to be the death knell for the tin industry?
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Rising Metal Prices Puts Mine On Track
Monday, October 26, 2009
Tin mining is to make a triumphant return to Cornwall as part of a landmark scheme which will create 1,000 new jobs and see vast swathes of land turned over to housing and employment. Western United Mines has sealed a deal that will bring mining operations back to life.
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Tin Trades Trudge On
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
One investor seems to be buying up most of the tin traded on the LME. Sparking unease among traders, several questions are doing the rounds – are the prices being pushed up artificially? Why the big position? Who benefits?
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Defeated ArcelorMittal Lowers Tin Price
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Following major criticism over the increase of its tin-plate prices, which were adjusted yearly by 69% to 78%, ArcelorMittal South Africa (ACLJ.J)
has toned down prices. The decision was welcomed by the packaging industry. But tin prices have yet to respond significantly to the fresh supply problems in Indonesia, which may be partly due to the strong recovery in Chinese production.
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Illegal Mining Hurts Tin
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
A police crackdown on illegal tin mining in Indonesia, including in Bangka-Belitung islands, has cut ore supplies. Analysts maintain the current crack down may not be as severe as the one in 2006, which halted tin production at small smelters for months, mainly because the government has tightened tin export rules. Moreover, PT Timah Tbk and PT Koba Tin, a unit of Malaysian Smelting Corp, were not affected by the crackdown.
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Firms Merge/Split: Raise Money
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Australia’s Metals X and China’s Yunnan Tin Group have announced that they had signed a Heads of Agreement to form a joint venture to control the MLX’s Tasmanian tin assets. Meanwhile, Cadillac Ventures Inc, a junior Toronto mineral developer, says it has failed to reach a final agreement with Latin American Minerals Inc on the Tendal VMS zinc, lead and copper project in Argentina and has decided to scrap talks. Australian tin exploration company Consolidated Tin Mines Limited is to undertake a placement of 10 million shares to raise A$1million.
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