Archive for the ‘Tin’ Category
Sunday, January 7th, 2007
Bolivian smelter Empresa Metalúrgica Vinto (EMV) does not plan to increase production in 2007 because of strikes and mining protests that plagued the country in October last year, company manager David Rivero told BNamericas.
"These social movements have skewed the potential of mining production a bit and we depend on that ...
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Sunday, January 7th, 2007
Bolivia plans to raise the taxes paid by mining companies by almost 600% in a shake-up of the industry set to be announced in the coming weeks.
Mining Minister Guillermo Dalence was quoted in Bolivian daily newspaper La Razon as saying that the leftist government of President Evo Morales received only ...
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Thursday, January 4th, 2007
Chinalco, the largest shareholder of Chalco, expressed their intension to acquire the Guangxi-based Liuzhou China Tin Co., Ltd (Liuzhou China Tin), the second largest tin producer by output in China.
Now several Chinese enterprises including China Minmetals Group Co., Ltd. and Hunan Nonferrous Metals Group Co., Ltd. were negotiating with Guangxi ...
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Thursday, January 4th, 2007
China has introduced new legislation aimed at limiting the building and expansion of tin, tungsten and antimony smelters.
The new regulations, which became law on January 1, will require smelters to use their own capital to fund 50% or more of any expansion.
In addition, permission to build or expand such smelters ...
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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
London Metal Exchange metals moved higher late Tuesday after breaches of key trend lines in both copper and aluminium sparked a technically-driven rally, traders said.
Copper attracted fresh buying once prices broke through key downtrend line at $4,860 a metric ton, one trader said. Prices then attracted sufficient buying to see ...
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Monday, January 16th, 2006
Tin was one of the first metals known to man. Throughout ancient history, various cultures recognized the virtues of tin in coatings, alloys and compounds, and use of the metal increased with advancing technology. Today, tin is an important metal in industry even though the annual tonnage used is much ...
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