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		<title>It apos;s Time To Rethink Tin The Forgotten Critical Mineral: Andy Home</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;ChristoperHundle: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;By Andy Home&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;LONDON, Oct 14 (Reuters) - There's a tingle of excitement in the tin market.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;It helps that the metal has weathered COVID-19 relatively well.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;At a current $18,300 per tonne, the London Metal Exchange (LME) price is up 6.5% on the start of 2020 and nudging against September's one-year high of $18,510.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;It also helps that sentiment among the small number of analysts who cover the tin market is turning bullish based on anticipated supply deficits over the coming years.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;However, underpinning the rosy market outlook is also a more fundamental reappraisal of tin's role in what's dubbed the Fourth Industrial Revolution - the coming whirlwind of machine-to-machine communication, the internet of things and artificial intelligence.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Tin is classified as a critical mineral in the United States, but not in the European Union.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The potentially more significant question though, is what China thinks about the metal.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;If the world's largest [http://bordersalertandready.com/?s=producer&amp;amp;search=Search producer] decides to start stockpiling tin, it'll be a wake-up call for everyone else.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;GLUE FOR THE INTERNET&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Tin doesn't grab many headlines.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The common association is with the humble tin can - the clue's in the name - a sector that has been in long-term decline as steel-makers use ever thinner coatings and the packaging sector shifts towards alternative materials such as aluminium.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;It's not the sort of story to catch the attention of fund managers.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Heavy-weight investors are also put off by the small size of the market - annual global production is just 360,000 tonnes - and the even smaller size of the LME market.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The lack of institutional interest is why relatively few analysts even bother with the tin market.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Thirteen contributed a tin forecast for Reuters year-start metal analysts poll, compared with 28 for  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/blog/kinh-nghiem-kham-pha-shangri-la-vung-dat-cua-tinh-yeu.html tour shangrila] copper.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;However, tin usage has, over several decades, quietly evolved away from long-life food to nano-soldering in electronics.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Soldering accounted for 48% of global usage in 2018, while tinplate packaging was just 13%, according to the International Tin Association (ITA).&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Tellingly, demand for tinplate fell 2% that year, while soldering usage increased by the same amount.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;This linkage to the electronics sector has been a boon for tin this year.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Semiconductor sales, a broad proxy for the electronic goods sector, have been resilient, up 4.9% in July relative to 2019, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Lockdown, perhaps unsurprisingly, has boosted demand for electronic gadgets.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;But soldering will also drive increased [http://www.stockhouse.com/search?searchtext=tin%20demand tin demand] as the world tools up for the Industrial Revolution Version 4.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Tin is literally the glue that binds together the machines needed to interface with the virtual and robotic worlds.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;When Rio Tinto commissioned the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study which metals would gain most from &amp;quot;new technology&amp;quot;, the answer was tin.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;MIT saw the &amp;quot;can metal&amp;quot; benefitting from all four megatrends of electric vehicles, renewable energy, advanced robotics and advanced computation and IT.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;CRITICAL METAL?&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Tin's usage across such a wide modern manufacturing spectrum is what put it on the U.S.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;list of critical minerals.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The reason it's not on the European list - a rare divergence - is probably because the European Union has a significant domestic producer in the form of Belgium's Metallo, now part of Germany's Aurubis.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The last U.S. tin mine, by contrast, closed in 1993 and the last smelter even earlier in 1989.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Home-grown supply is limited to around 11,000 tonnes of recycled metal, with refined tin imports running at around 35,000 tonnes in the last two years, according to the United States Geological Survey.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Is it on China's list of strategic reserves?&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The country is expected to include a stockpiling programme for strategic commodities in its next five-year plan beginning 2021.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;State stockpile managers have already been active in the cobalt market.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;There is much speculation they are one of the reasons China's copper imports are running red-hot this year.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Given both China's existing manufacturing base and its drive to dominate next-generation technology,  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/blog/kinh-nghiem-kham-pha-shangri-la-vung-dat-cua-tinh-yeu.html tour Lệ Giang] tin is a likely contender for strategic metal status.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Macquarie Bank analysts &amp;quot;find enough reason to adjust our supply-demand balance to account for some stocking this year and next&amp;quot;.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;They postulate 5,000 tonnes of Chinese purchases, split across this year and next.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;(&amp;quot;Commodities Compendium&amp;quot;, Sept. 21,  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/blog/kinh-nghiem-kham-pha-shangri-la-vung-dat-cua-tinh-yeu.html kynghidongduong.vn] 2020).&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Forecast 2020 and 2021 supply deficits are deepened to 4,400 tonnes and 2,900 tonnes respectively. Indeed, Macquarie is forecasting consecutive years of supply deficit through 2025.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Analysts at Roskill are only slightly less bullish, with forecast shortages through 2023.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;FRAGILE SUPPLY&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;China has been the world's largest producer and consumer of tin for some years.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;If lack of domestic resource is a key determinant of a metal's criticality, the country doesn't appear to have a problem.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;But China has grown heavily reliant on imports of raw material from the tin mines in the Wa area of Myanmar.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Imports peaked at over 470,000 tonnes bulk weight in 2016 but have been trending ever lower since amid speculation that easily accessible reserves are being exhausted.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;This year has brought another sharp decline, due first to COVID-19 restrictions at the China-Myanmar border and more recently, the ITA says, to severe flooding at some of the mines.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Smelters such as Yunnan Tin have taken maintenance downtime to compensate for the shortfall of raw material.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;That in turn has caused the world's largest producer to turn net importer of refined tin so far this year.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Smelter margins remain squeezed by a lack of raw material, acting as a restraint on tin production, said state research house Antaike.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The coronavirus has exposed China's dependency on its neighbour for tin concentrates.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Macquarie notes that &amp;quot;some concerns have emerged around future supply from Myanmar, with market participants telling us that Chinese buyer inquiries are now reaching Africa and the new Alphamin mine in (the Democratic Republic of Congo)&amp;quot;.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;China's internal supply dynamics seem to be struggling to keep up with current demand, let alone finding sufficient mine resource to meet future soldering demand.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The country's state planners have much to mull over in deciding whether to designate tin a strategic metal.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The very fact the old can metal is even on their discussion list suggests the tin market may be due a broader strategic rethink.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;(Editing by Jan Harvey)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Five-eyed Shrimp From 500 Million Years Ago Could Be apos;missing Link apos;</title>
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		<updated>2021-01-03T17:00:49Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;ChristoperHundle: Created page with &amp;quot;A type of shrimp with five eyes that swam the oceans of Earth half a billion years ago may be the 'missing link' in the evolution of arthropods, scientists claim.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Researche...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;A type of shrimp with five eyes that swam the oceans of Earth half a billion years ago may be the 'missing link' in the evolution of arthropods, scientists claim.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences discovered the three inch long creature, that dates back 520 million years, in a rock formation in Yunnan Province.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Arthropods, including insects, spiders and crustaceans, are the most successful animals on Earth, making up almost 80 percent of all species found on the planet.  &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The new species has been placed at the foot of the arthropod family tree - being the oldest ever found and has been named Kylinxia zhangi by the team that found it. &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Until Kylinxia was discovered there had been a 'missing' creature in the evolutionary record with the features of the arthropod precursors and true arthropods. &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;         Ecological reconstruction of Kylinxia and its [http://www.ajaxtime.com/?s=habitat habitat].  A type of shrimp with five eyes that swam the oceans of Earth half a billion years ago may be the 'missing link' in the evolution of arthropods, scientists claim&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;         Fossil specimen of Kylinxia. Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences discovered the three inch long creature, that dates back 520 million years, in a rock formation in Yunnan Province&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The newly discovered 'shrimp' looks like it has been put together using the parts of other animals, say palaeontologists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Six shrimp-sized fossils were dug up at a rock formation in Yunnan Province, south west China, and they combine features from different arthropods of the early Cambrian period, according to the team behind the study.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;These include five compound eyes popping out of stalks on their head, like an enigmatic primitive shrimp called [http://www.ehow.com/search.html?s=Opabinia%20regalis Opabinia regalis].&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;They also had two large claws at the front of the body for seizing prey, as seen in a monster six foot arthropod known as Anomalocaris.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;         Drawing of the shrimp. The new species has been placed at the foot of the arthropod family tree - being the oldest ever found and has been named Kylinxia zhangi by the team that found it&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;         Artist impression of Kylinxia. The newly discovered 'shrimp' looks like it has been put together using the parts of other animals, say palaeontologists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Meanwhile, the body structure is similar to those of another group of extinct predatory arthropods, the Megacheira.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The origin of arthropods have puzzled generations of scientists for more than a century, but Kylinxia, named after the Chinese word for Shrimp, could be the missing piece of the puzzle, according to corresponding author Professor Huang Diying.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;He said Kylinxia is a very rare chimeric species that combines features from a range of different animals - similar to a kylin,  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/blog/kinh-nghiem-kham-pha-shangri-la-vung-dat-cua-tinh-yeu.html kynghidongduong.vn] a chimera creature from Chinese mythology. &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Kylinxia also shows distinctive features of true arthropods such as a hardened cuticle, a segmented trunk and jointed legs.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;   RELATED ARTICLES  [# Previous] [# 1] [# 2] [# Next]     [/sciencetech/article-8624037/Fossilised-eye-429-million-year-old-sea-creature-identical-modern-bee.html  Fossilised eye of a tiny ancient sea creature that lived 429...] [/sciencetech/article-8180917/Prehistoric-pair-fornicating-flies-frozen-amber-41-million-years-ago-discovered.html  Caught in the act: Pair of fornicating flies that became...] [/sciencetech/article-7947603/Genetically-engineered-moths-wipe-wild-counterparts-stopping-breeding.html  Genetically engineered male MOTHS developed to stop pest...] [/sciencetech/article-7738459/Ohio-University-makes-u-turn-insects-Mars-claim-deletes-press-release.html  Ohio University makes a u-turn over 'insects on Mars' claim...]   [/sciencetech/article-7580045/Worlds-fastest-ant-hits-record-breaking-speed-TWO-miles-hour.html  World's fastest ant hits record-breaking speed of TWO miles...]    &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Share this article&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Share&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;16 shares&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Co-corresponding author Zhao Fangchen said: 'Owing to very special taphonomic conditions, the Kylinxia fossils exhibit exquisite anatomical structures.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;'For example, nervous tissue, eyes and  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/blog/kinh-nghiem-kham-pha-shangri-la-vung-dat-cua-tinh-yeu.html tour Lệ Giang giá rẻ] digestive system - these are soft body parts we usually cannot see in conventional fossils.'&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Anomalocaris was the largest animal in the Cambrian seas.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;It had formidable grasping claws, which allowed it to grab its prey and pull it into its mouth. Lacking legs, it must have swum in open water.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;But huge morphological differences exist between Anomalocaris and true arthropods that are seen around the world today, explained Zhao.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;There is a great evolutionary gap between the two that can hardly be bridged.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;This gap has become a crucial 'missing link' in the origin of arthropods.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;         Anatomical reconstruction of Kylinxia. Until Kylinxia was discovered there had been a 'missing' creature in the evolutionary record with the features of the arthropod precursors and true arthropods&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;         Six shrimp-sized fossils were dug up at a rock formation in Yunnan Province, south west China, and they combine features from different arthropods of the early Cambrian period,  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/blog/kinh-nghiem-kham-pha-shangri-la-vung-dat-cua-tinh-yeu.html tour Lệ Giang giá rẻ] according to the team behind the study&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The research team conducted detailed anatomical examinations of the fossils of Kylinxia and combined them with Anomalocaris and true arthropods such as spiders, scorpions, ants and bees.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Co author Zhu Maoyan said: 'Our results indicate the evolutionary placement of Kylinxia is right between Anomalocaris and the true arthropods.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;'Therefore, our finding reached the evolutionary root of the true arthropods.'&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The arthropods have diversified spectacularly since - but these inventions from the Cambrian have been retained all the way through.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;First author Dr Zeng Han said: 'Kylinxia represents a crucial transitional fossil predicted by Darwin's evolutionary theory.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;'It bridges the evolutionary gap from Anomalocaris to true arthropods and forms a key 'missing link' in the origin of arthropods, contributing strong fossil evidence for the evolutionary theory of life.' &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>COLUMN-It apos;s Time To Rethink Tin The Forgotten Critical Mineral:...</title>
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&lt;div&gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;By Andy Home&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;LONDON, Oct 14 (Reuters) - There's a tingle of excitement in the tin market.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;It helps that the metal has weathered COVID-19 relatively well.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;At a current $18,300 per tonne, the London Metal Exchange (LME) price is up 6.5% on the start of 2020 and nudging against September's one-year high of $18,510.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;It also helps that sentiment among the small number of analysts who cover the tin market is turning bullish based on anticipated supply deficits over the coming years.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;However,  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/blog/kinh-nghiem-kham-pha-shangri-la-vung-dat-cua-tinh-yeu.html kynghidongduong.vn] underpinning the rosy market outlook is also a more fundamental reappraisal of tin's role in what's dubbed the Fourth Industrial Revolution - the coming whirlwind of machine-to-machine communication, the internet of things and artificial intelligence.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Tin is classified as a critical mineral in the United States, but not in the European Union.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The potentially more significant question though, is what China thinks about the metal.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;If the world's largest producer decides to start stockpiling tin, it'll be a wake-up call for everyone else.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;GLUE FOR THE INTERNET&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Tin doesn't grab many headlines.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The common association is with the humble tin can - the clue's in the name - a sector that has been in long-term decline as steel-makers use ever thinner coatings and the packaging sector shifts towards alternative materials such as aluminium.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;It's not the sort of story to catch the attention of fund managers.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Heavy-weight investors are also put off by the small size of the market - annual global production is just 360,000 tonnes - and the even smaller size of the LME market.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The lack of institutional interest is why relatively few analysts even bother with the tin market.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Thirteen contributed a tin forecast for Reuters year-start metal analysts poll, compared with 28 for copper.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;However, tin usage has, over several decades, quietly evolved away from long-life food to nano-soldering in electronics.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Soldering accounted for 48% of global usage in 2018, while tinplate packaging was just 13%, according to the International Tin Association (ITA).&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Tellingly, demand for tinplate fell 2% that year, while soldering usage increased by the same amount.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;This linkage to the [http://www.wonderhowto.com/search/electronics%20sector/ electronics sector] has been a boon for tin this year.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Semiconductor sales, a broad proxy for the electronic goods sector, have been resilient, up 4.9% in July relative to 2019, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Lockdown, perhaps unsurprisingly, has boosted demand for electronic gadgets.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;But soldering will also drive increased tin demand as the world tools up for the Industrial Revolution Version 4.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Tin is literally the glue that binds together the machines needed to interface with the virtual and robotic worlds.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;When Rio Tinto commissioned the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study which metals would gain most from &amp;quot;new technology&amp;quot;, the answer was tin.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;MIT saw the &amp;quot;can metal&amp;quot; benefitting from all four megatrends of electric vehicles, renewable energy, advanced robotics and advanced computation and IT.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;CRITICAL METAL?&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Tin's usage across such a wide modern manufacturing spectrum is what put it on the U.S.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;list of critical minerals.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The reason it's not on the European list - a rare divergence - is probably because the European Union has a significant domestic producer in the form of Belgium's Metallo, now part of Germany's Aurubis.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The last U.S. tin mine, by contrast, closed in 1993 and the last smelter even earlier in 1989.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Home-grown supply is limited to around 11,000 tonnes of recycled metal, with refined tin imports running at around 35,000 tonnes in the last two years, according to the United States Geological Survey.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Is it on China's list of strategic reserves?&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The country is expected to include a stockpiling programme for strategic commodities in its next five-year plan beginning 2021.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;State stockpile managers have already been active in the cobalt market.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;There is much speculation they are one of the reasons China's copper imports are running red-hot this year.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Given both China's existing manufacturing base and its drive to dominate next-generation technology, tin is a likely contender for strategic metal status.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Macquarie Bank analysts &amp;quot;find enough reason to adjust our supply-demand balance to account for some stocking this year and next&amp;quot;.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;They postulate 5,000 tonnes of Chinese purchases, split across this year and next.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;(&amp;quot;Commodities Compendium&amp;quot;,  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/blog/kinh-nghiem-kham-pha-shangri-la-vung-dat-cua-tinh-yeu.html tour Lệ Giang] Sept. 21, 2020).&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Forecast 2020 and 2021 supply deficits are deepened to 4,400 tonnes and 2,900 tonnes respectively. Indeed, Macquarie is forecasting consecutive years of supply deficit through 2025.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Analysts at Roskill are only slightly less bullish, with forecast shortages through 2023.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;FRAGILE SUPPLY&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;China has been the world's largest producer and consumer of tin for some years.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;If lack of domestic resource is a key determinant of a metal's criticality, the country doesn't appear to have a problem.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;But China has grown heavily reliant on imports of raw material from the tin mines in the Wa area of Myanmar.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Imports peaked at over 470,000 tonnes bulk weight in 2016 but have been trending ever lower since amid speculation that easily accessible reserves are being exhausted.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;This year has brought another sharp decline, due first to COVID-19 restrictions at the China-Myanmar border and more recently, the ITA says, to severe flooding at some of the mines.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Smelters such as Yunnan Tin have taken maintenance downtime to compensate for the shortfall of raw material.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;That in turn has caused the world's largest producer to turn net importer of refined tin so far this year.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Smelter margins remain squeezed by a lack of raw material, acting as a restraint on tin production, said state research house Antaike.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The coronavirus has exposed China's dependency on its neighbour for tin concentrates.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Macquarie notes that &amp;quot;some concerns have emerged around future supply from Myanmar, with market participants telling us that Chinese buyer inquiries are now reaching Africa and the new Alphamin mine in (the Democratic Republic of Congo)&amp;quot;.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;China's internal supply dynamics seem to be struggling to keep up with current demand, let alone finding sufficient mine resource to meet future soldering demand.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The country's state planners have much to mull over in deciding whether to designate tin a strategic metal.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The very fact the old can metal is even on their discussion list suggests the tin market may be due a broader strategic rethink.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;(Editing by Jan Harvey)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Every New Movie And Show On Netflix: October 2019</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;ChristoperHundle: Created page with &amp;quot;id=&amp;quot;article-body&amp;quot; class=&amp;quot;row&amp;quot; section=&amp;quot;article-body&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Big Mouth returns Oct. 3&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[http://ed...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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Tennis Juniors The Water DivinerOct. 8Deon Cole: Cole HeartedThe Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants Hack-a-weenOct. 9AfterRhythm + Flow Oct. 10Schitt's Creek: Season 5Ultramarine Magmell Oct. 11El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie The Forest of LoveFracturedHaunted: Season 2Insatiable: Season 2 La influencia Plan Coeur: Season 2The Awakenings of Motti WolenbruchYooHoo to the Rescue: Season 2 Oct. 12BanlieusardsOct. 15Dark CrimesOct. 16Ghosts of Sugar LandSinister 2Oct. 17The Karate KidTHE UNLISTEDOct. 18The Yard (Avlu) Baby: Season 2 EliInterior Design Masters The House of Flowers: Season 2The Laundromat Living with YourselfMeatEater: Season 8 Mighty Little Bheem: DiwaliSeventeenSpirit Riding Free: Pony Tales Collection 2Tell Me Who I AmToon: Seasons 1-2 Unnatural SelectionUpstartsOct. 19Men in BlackOct. 21Echo in the CanyonFree FireOct. 22Jenny Slate: Stage FrightOct. 23Breakfast, Lunch &amp;amp; DinnerDancing with the BirdsMaster Z: The Ip Man LegacyOct. 24Daybreak Revenge of PontianakOct. 25A Tale of Love and DarknessAssimilateBrigada Costa del SolBrotherhoodDolemite Is My Name Greenhouse Academy: Season 3The Kominsky Method: Season 2 MonzonNailed It! 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