Miners in Indonesia risk their lives every day by illegally diving up to 65 feet underwater with minimal equipment. Top-earning miners make about $13 a day. The tin they mine gets used in common ...

A mineral that is difficult to crack meets a raw material that is increasingly in demand in the electronics and semiconductor industry: In multi-stage smelting and refining processes, raw tin is ...

Tin mining in one of the world’s main producers of the metal has sparked the latest in a series of conflicts between illegal miners and traditional fishers in Indonesia. The incident stemmed from a ...

Cornish Metals plans to commence tin mining in Cornwall's South Crofty in 2026. This mining will help address the potential global tin shortfall, causing a probable rise in tin price. Tin is a vital ...

Further to a campaign by Friends of the Earth, in which the environmental campaigners accused Apple of “destroying tropical forests, killing coral and wrecking the lives of communities in Indonesia” ...

Fishers in the Indonesian region that’s a key source of the tin used in iPhones and other electronics have protested a new zoning plan that will allow mining on an important fishing coast. The Toboali ...

BEIJING/HANOI, April 18 (Reuters) - A suspension of mining in Myanmar could lead to further tightening of global supplies of tin, China's Yunnan Tin 000960.SZ, the world's top refined tin producer, ...

Bolstered by strengthening tin prices and improving fundamental support for tin consumption over the long term, Canadian mineral exploration firm Strongbow Exploration is set to revive a mining ...

JAKARTA, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Indonesia is the world's top exporter of tin and second-largest producer after China, producing nearly 30 percent of the world's refined tin. - Bangka island, off Sumatra's ...

Indonesia is the world's biggest exporter of tin, and more than 90% of the country's supply comes from the islands of Bangka and Belitung. But the deposits on land are almost gone, so unlicensed ...