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interference of Indonesia may raise interest
By Katherine Young
April 20, 2007
Although metals such as copper, gold, nickel and uranium have been at the center of the recent revenue increase exploration and excitement investment tin, the cousin of drilling has been widely regarded as unworthy of notice. Over the last six months, however, tin prices increased by 40%.
Platts Metals Week price medium consisting of tin was $ 7.13 a pound in January 2007 and crawled to the $ 8.47 February 23 this year. The price per ton hit U.S. $ 14,000 in February, compared with $ 12,000, and many observers predict $ 15 000 later this year.
Disruptions in the supply of tin from Indonesia had a pronounced effect on world supply of tin. Indonesia is one of the largest tin producer, in charge of 85,000 tonnes (t) in 2006, behind China, which produces 100,000 tonnes in the same year. A reduction of 30% of exports of tin in Indonesia has caused forecast global demand to be higher than forecast for the supply of 30,000 t. According to the World Bureau of Statistics, tin production rose 7,000 tons in January-February 2007 from year to year due to supply shortages in Indonesia. The global shortage of tin for this period amounted to 8,000 t, even when global demand has risen from 3,000 t.
Earlier this year the government Indonesia has taken action against illegal miners and smelters of tin and regulations on exporting the most established strict. The government appointed environmental damage and catastrophic health and safety standards as the reason.
On the surface, this explanation seems adequate. A Reuters, Lewa Pardomuan, described the scene on an island in Indonesia: "Deep craters as big as football fields that dot the light soils. craters filled with turquoise sequins misleading water under the tropical sun. The water is very acidic … dozens of miners have set up camp in the village of Sunghin in the jungles of Indonesia, forage for tin deposits in disused mines. "
In a recent article published by Bloomberg, however, suggested that the reasons for the Indonesian government to stop tin mines are strategic rather than the environment. "Changes in the management of the tin industry in Indonesia time when the government weighed a number of additional measures to try to increase the value of commodity exports in the nation. "Given the recent increase of 40% in tin prices, any effort to "boost" seems to bear fruit.
An analyst tin USGS Resourcex who spoke on condition of anonymity, said: "The history of the tin market in the 70 or 80 years is chopped smallpox, with much speculation, illegal activities, fraud on the market because the market is a bit smaller than other metals such as aluminum, copper, lead and zinc. "
He said he expects Indonesia to return to the market this year. "They are a poor country. They need the money badly. Will not want to cut your nose to spite themselves. "
USGS in their 2006 reports of mineral products Summary of tin, "said the producer of tin in higher prices and stronger demand tin in recent years with the tin mine and tin smelter openings and expansions. "
The spokesman for the USGS tempered these predictions, adding: "I saw evidence of [the increase in tin exploration] … But remember, leaders of these mining companies have been for some time and has experienced long periods of low metal prices from 1980 to 2002, which were losing money, so just go back to it with great caution. "
In addition to lower willingness of Western companies for exploration "to return the market for tin is possible that the tin deposits seem to be more common in countries that are difficult to enter or politically or geographically. spokesman for the USGS said: "… there are two belts tin geological thinking. One of them is South America, stretching from Bolivia to Peru and even the western Amazon region of Brazil. Most importantly, however, more in Asia. It begins on the island of Tasmania in Australia and through Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and throughout Burma and Vietnam, the borders of China and Russia. It is a large pewter belt. "
He added that Malaysia could be an area where we see more interest of the tin. "For 100 years, until twenty years ago, Malaysia was the top dog in tin production worldwide. Have been relatively inactive in the tin mines. The government of this country, although there are a large number of people employed in the resources sector, has not been as active over the past twenty years in the recovery of large reserves of tin … And if you have the desire and need and money that could be exploited. "USGS Mineral Commodity Summary for tin for the year 2007 reports that Malaysian tin reserves the second largest in the world after China.
Thus, large reserves of tin sitting idle on the ground at least since the crash of tin in 1985, remains to be seen what kind of action will be carried out exploration. The application China remains strong, and global supply, but reinforced for scrap, however limited, at least for now. The question remains: what Will what's next for the price of the box? Resourcex said USGS spokeswoman for his vision: .. "I see that is too high, I think the big question China is not sure what will happen there. It seems there is evidence that [China's economic growth] is cooling, and grow, but at a slower pace. "
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About the Author
Katherine Young writes for Resourcex Investor, an internationally distributed newsletter specializing in identifying as-yet-undiscovered resource companies representing the best in their class. For more information, visit the website www.resourcexinvestor.com.
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