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13-May-2017 |
Australia Names First Resident Ambassador to Morocco
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Source: Morocco World News
Rabat - Coinciding with the opening of its embassy in Morocco, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has announced the appointment of its first resident ambassador to Morocco, Berenice Owen-Jones.
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3-Jan-2017 |
Global Semiconductor Sales Up 7 Percent Year-to-Year
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Source: Semiconductor Industry Association
Author: Dan Russo
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), representing U.S. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing, design, and research, today announced worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $31.0 billion for the month of November 2016, an increase of 7.4 percent compared to the November 2015 total of $28.9 billion and 2.0 percent more than the October 2016 total of 30.4 billion.
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18-Aug-2016 |
Myanmar tin production may have reached peak
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Source: ITRI
Based on a recent visit to the area by ITRI China staff, it appears that Myanmar tin production is peaking at some 50,000 tpy, although there is still significant potential for the discovery of new ore resources.
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5-Jul-2016 |
King Mohammed VI Gives New Momentum To Morocco's Investment Plan
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Source: Middle East Confidential
Author: Jaber Ali
King Mohammed VI has launched a new investment plan boosting the role of the private sector and setting up the necessary conditions to spur sustainable economic growth in the North African Kingdom.
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26-May-2016 |
CFSP will expand scope beyond DRC - may consider Indonesia, Myanmar
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Source: MetalBulletin
Author: Claire Hack
The Conflict-Free Smelter Programme (CFSP) is undergoing a protocol revision process this year, including expanding the geographic scope of "conflict-affected and high-risk areas" to cover areas beyond the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and surrounding countries.
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2-May-2016 |
Base Metals On The Rise - The Bounce After a Bear Market Bottom
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Source: MetalMiner
Author: Raul de Frutos
Markets are unpredictable. Picking a bottom is a difficult task as things can change quickly. However, for the first time since 2011, we are seeing enough positive signals to believe industrial metals might have bottomed out.
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28-Apr-2016 |
Indonesia's Timah refined tin output down 40 pct in Q1
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Source: Reuters
Author: Bernadette Christina Munthe
Indonesia's state-owned tin miner PT Timah saw a 40 percent drop in refined tin production to 4,205 tonnes in the first quarter from 7,057 tonnes in the same period a year earlier, the company said in a statement on Thursday, amid declining output of tin ore.
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11-Apr-2016 |
Brave, New, Tin World - The Tech Applications for the Metal May be Limitless
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Source: MetalMiner
Author: Stuart Burns
Touching back on our reference to energy storage, one of the technologies that has created the demand for storage more than most is solar panels. The cost has come down and the efficiency has gone up with silicon crystalline photovoltaic panels to the extent that they can operate without subsidy in southern states. But although costs have fallen, the smart money believes it has much further to go...and tin could be the key.
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19-Mar-2016 |
Tin gets more expensive as mines quit mining
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Soure: The Salt Lake Tribune
Author: Joe De Aux
Smart phones, cars and a prolonged mining slump are creating tighter supplies of tin, a metal used mostly as solder for electrical circuits.
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8-Mar-2016 |
PDAC ITRI Presentation
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Source: ITRI
Author: Peter Kettle, Jeremy Pearce and Tom Mulqueen
The linked presentation from ITRI was presented at PDAC on 8 March 2016.
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1-Mar-2016 |
Rising Tin - Base Metals' Best Performer in February
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Source: MetalMiner
Author: Raul de Frutos
Tin was the strongest base metal in February. After hitting a new six-year low in mid-January, the metal has bounced back up like a tennis ball. Indeed, since January 15th tin has risen more than 20% and many would consider this a bull market.
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25-Feb-2016 |
Tin defies commodity slump on back of Indonesian export cuts
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Source: Reuters
Author: Eric Onstad and Melanie Burton
Tin is defying the downdraft sweeping commodity markets, with prices for the metal used to solder electronics surging this year thanks to reduced production in major exporter Indonesia.
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22-Feb-2016 |
Major Indonesian tin smelter stops refining operations
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Source: Reuters
Major Indonesian tin smelter PT Refined Bangka Tin (RBT) has stopped refining operations and its plant will be scrapped due to environmental concerns, a company shareholder told Reuters.
The exit of privately-owned RBT from the market could provide some support to global tin prices as falling shipments from Indonesia, the world's largest exporter of the soldering material, take a further hit.
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11-Feb-2016 |
Low LME stocks rattle tin shorts again
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Source: Reuters
Author: Andy Home
Tightness has returned to the London tin market.
Actually, it really never went away but the small-volume London Metal Exchange (LME) tin contract is showing every sign of entering one of its periodic spread spasms.
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8-Feb-2016 |
With Mining Law Changes, Are Foreign Firms Set to Dig In
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Source: The Irrawaddy
Author: Seamus Martov
Long-anticipated revisions to Burma's Mining Law, which were passed by the outgoing Parliament at the end of last year, could spur foreign investment in a sector that is still vulnerable to frontier market perils.
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3-Feb-2016 |
Gov' to Audit Tin Smelters
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Source: Tempo.co
The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources will audit tin mining activities and the operation of tin smelters in Bangka-Belitung Province starting next week. Bambang Gatot Ariyono, the ministry's coal and mineral director general, said eight tin smelters will be audited.
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23-Jan-2016 |
Chips on their shoulders
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Source: The Economist
China wants to become a superpower in semiconductors, and plans to spend colossal sums to achieve this.
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3-Dec-2015 |
On a hot-tin route
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Source: The Economist
There is much talk in environmental circles of carbon capture and storage (CCS). This involves gathering up the CO2 made by burning fossil fuels and stuffing it in underground caverns or bespoke crystalline materials where it cannot abet climate change.
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29-Oct-2015 |
Tin's problem is too little not too much supply
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Source: Reuters
Author: Andy Home
Industrial metals are caught in a bear vortex of slowing demand growth, first and foremost in China, and oversupply, as producers pay the price for the exuberance of the boom years.
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3-Sep-2015 |
Technology metal tin is on the rise
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Source: InvestorIntel
Author: Robin Bromby
Base metals have been battling hard this week; on Monday they all (but one) went down a little; Tuesday saw nickel fall $300/tonne in one session, with copper and zinc making minor falls. Wesnesday was better all around. But tin has been shining.
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