China market action benefits DRC mining
China’s commitment to investing in overseas resources, its relatively impotent attempts to control the market, and the consequences of the pandemic era have conspired to bring the DRC into focus, where copper and tin are most abundant. Miners operating in the country include Glencore PLC (LSX:GLEN), Metorex Ltd (JSX:MTX) and Alphamin Resources Corp. (TSX:AFM), the company industrializing the world’s richest tin deposit.
Can tin hit $50k?
Tin prices are at all-time-highs and rising, and while additional production is inevitable at current levels, there is a distinct lack of new tin mines currently in development. Ongoing supply disruptions and emerging inhibitory factors continue to support the positive price trend, and as it creeps towards $50k/t, it falls to existing cassiterite mines such […]
Alphamin: The only way to buy tin
Primarily used as solder in electronics, the value of tin has doubled over the last twelve months, and the relatively small number of tin stocks have proven to be valuable investments. However, the top two producers, Yunnan Tin Co., Ltd. (SZSE:000960) and PT Timah Tbk (JKSE:TINS), are not so accessible to western investors; fortunately, the […]
Mineworx CleanTech to revolutionize PGM recovery
Mineworx Technologies Ltd (TSX.V: MWX) has recently completed the construction of a pilot plant that is expected to enable high-yield recoveries of Platinum Group Metals (PGMs) from spent diesel catalytic converter units. Diesel units provide notoriously poor returns for most smelters, but Mineworx’ patented chemical process will allow the reclamation of platinum and palladium with […]