Yunnan Tin to start up two subsidiaries in Germany

Yunnan Tin Co Ltd announced that its subsidiary Yuntinic Resources GmbH will invest two sums of EUR 500, 000 to set up two subsidiaries in Germany in order to expand its sales networks.

The two new companies, named Yuntinic Chemical GmbH and Yuntinic Additives GmbH, will engage in inorganic chemical sales and additive sales

Tin, Way Beyond Tin Plate

Tin, Way Beyond Tin Plate: "As a recent analyst report points out, every laptop contains on average 32g of solder, which is 96% tin. Every Blackberry contains 7g of solder. Tin is as important to electronics as rare earths or precious metals, both of which get much more press. Demand for tin in the electronics industry makes it an integral part of the modern digital age and yet until a year or two back many in the investment community still looked at tin as a product primarily for packing baked beans in."

Reading the analyst report linked above, with data taken from the ITRI one could be excused for thinking there are in excess of twenty new projects on the point of commercial realization.

But in reality nothing could be further from the truth. The majority of these, what the industry terms occurrences, are not definable resources. Even those 5 or 6 that have been defined according to accepted standards only 4 have anything like an economic future and three of those – 2 in Australia and 1 in Canada are low grade polymetallic reserves dependent on the co-economics of the other metals occurring. The table is potentially misleading in that we do not have security of future supply it suggests, almost certainly not for the volumes that will be demanded by our increasingly digitally reliant world. One of the oldest of metals used by man has one of the brightest investment futures, for anyone with their hands on quality supplies.