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Tin Market Traces Recovery

Thursday, July 8, 2010

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.

Gippsland Ltd. – Tantalum Tin-Feldspar in Egypt

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Gippsland Limited is an Australian based international resource company. Their focus is to find projects that have had detailed historical analysis, which may have been overlooked by major resource groups. Currently, their main projects are the Abu Dabbab and the Nuweibi tantalum projects, located in Egypt.

Government in Bangka Indonesia To Stop Tin Mining Until 2015

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Indonesian government plans to stop small business miners in its main tin-producing Bangka-Belitung island for the next four years due to damage on its 657,510 hectares of forest areas in Bangka-Belitung. Governor Eko Maulana Ali is quoted saying: “Traditional Tin mining has been expanding. Farmers and fishermen have now switched to mine Tin.” Click here to access the [...]

Tin Trade Above US$17,300 per Tonne at KLTM

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Tin dealers in Malaysia expects that Kuala Lumpur Tin Market (KLTM) stays firm.  According to the dealers the tin trade will likey be above US$17,300 per tonne as Malaysian and European buyers are expected to be active. One of the dealers is quoted saying: “The market was traded mostly lower this week, so we expect to see [...]

PT Timah Increases Offshore Mining Deposits to 70 pct

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

PT Timah (Persero) Tbk, Indonesia’s largest tin producer, is planning to increase its offshore mining deposits.  The company’s Offshore mining may account for 60% to 70% this year. It is also forced to reduce sourcing tin ore from its onshore mines in Bangka-Belitung islands, Indonesia’s main source of tin. President Director Wachid Usman is quoted saying: “We’re [...]

Tin’s Buying Support is Higher

Monday, May 24, 2010

Kuala Lumpur Tin Market (KLTM) will be on a stable condition since Malaysian and European buyers of tin will be active to trade above US$17,300 per tonne. One of the dealers is quoted saying: “The market was traded mostly lower this week, so we expect to see more buying support next week as prices are still low.” [...]

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 [...]

South Crofty Brings Back Cornwall in Tin Mining

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

South Crofty and Cornwall, world’s leading producer of metals such as tin, zinc, copper, silver, and more, will be opening a lot of work for the people in England. Barry Wills is quoted saying: “The present historic resource consists of 53 identified potential orebodies in the South Crofty area, containing varying amounts of copper, zinc, silver, indium, [...]

Venture Minerals’ Mt Lindsay Find

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Venture Minerals Ltd has discovered an important tin-tungsten-mineralised zone at its flagship Mt Lindsay tin-tungsten deposit. The project is located 125km, by sealed road, from the Port of Burnie in north-west Tasmania. Venture is quoted saying: “Having completed the resource drilling the Company engaged several specialist consultants to produce the first independent scoping study in the Mt [...]

Tinplate Pre-tax Profit of (US$23 million)

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

The Tinplate Company of India Ltd has reported a (US$23 million) profit on  pre-tax in the financial year to March 2010.  The company is expecting a 379,000 tpy tin plate expansion by the end of 2010-2011 financial year. TCIL Managing Director Tarun Daga told a press conference, “Our company will continue its strategic thrust of maintaining [...]

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