Tin mining makes major comeback

THE tin mining industry, written off as an obsolete industry for almost two decades, is set to make a major comeback, thanks to China's huge demand, new uses for the metal and the new highs the price of the commodity has reached on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market (KLTM) and the London Metal Exchange (LME). 

The Malaysian Chamber of Mines, which has continued to champion the cause of the local tin mining industry despite the metal market's collapse and the cessation of operation of the London-based International Tin Council's buffer stocks in 1985, is optimistic that these encouraging developments would give renewed hope to the industry.