Last November I presented "Blacks Swans in tin and tantalum mining and their implications for electronics manufacturers" to the 'Electronic and Battery Metals' session of the Argus Media-Metal Pages China Metals Week, in Guangzhou. The efforts of Nick Gardiner (Curtin University), Allan Trench (University of Western Australia), Laurence Robb (Oxford University), Peter Kettle (ITRI), Tom Mulqueen (ITRI) and Cui Lin (ITRI) should also… Read this post →
Today I will be attending the last leg of ITRI Tin Explorers and Developers Australian Tour 2014, at the offices of Metals X in Perth. As such it seems a good opportunity to catch up with the backlog of presentations and papers I need to upload to the website. Back in September, as well as presenting a plenary talk on the Economic History… Read this post →
ITRI (formerly the International Tin Research Institute) and Greenfields Research have recently completed a new report on the tin mine project pipeline, entitled "New Tin Supply". A Press Release about the report was released by ITRI on 2nd October. A copy can be found on the ITRI website, my slideshare and is repeated in full below. A brochure for the… Read this post →
The International Tin Research Institute (ITRI) has released a new free report on the tin industry and its role in "sustainable development". The report also includes the essentials of tin economics and looks pretty smart. I do a considerable amount of consultancy for ITRI in designing their tin mine cost model and contributing to their industry reports and presentations, so… Read this post →
My good friend, Peter Kettle, Manager of Market Statistics & Market Studies at ITRI (International Tin Research Institute) has written an excellent guest article for the Mining Journal providing an overview of the tin industry and how the current market fundamentals are conspiring to create an opportunity for explorers and developers of new tin deposits. In the article Peter discusses… Read this post →
