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It apos;s Time To Rethink Tin The Forgotten Critical Mineral: Andy Home

2021-01-04T03:34:18Z

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By Andy Home LONDON, Oct 14 (Reuters) - There's a tingle of excitement in the tin market. It helps that the metal has weathered COVID-19 relatively well. 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. It also helps that sentiment among the small number of analysts who cover the tin market is turning [http://www.squidoo.com/search/results?q=bullish%20based bullish based] on anticipated supply deficits over the coming years. 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. Tin is classified as a critical mineral in the United States, but not in the European Union. The potentially more significant question though, is what China thinks about the metal. If the world's largest producer decides to start stockpiling tin, it'll be a wake-up call for everyone else. GLUE FOR THE INTERNET Tin doesn't grab many headlines. 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. It's not the sort of story to catch the attention of fund managers. 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. The lack of institutional interest is why relatively few analysts even bother with the tin market. Thirteen contributed a tin forecast for Reuters year-start metal analysts poll, compared with 28 for copper. However, tin usage has, over several decades, quietly evolved away from long-life food to nano-soldering in electronics. Soldering accounted for [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/blog/kinh-nghiem-kham-pha-shangri-la-vung-dat-cua-tinh-yeu.html tour shangrila] 48% of global usage in 2018, while tinplate packaging was just 13%, according to the International Tin Association (ITA). Tellingly, demand for tinplate fell 2% that year, while soldering usage increased by the same amount. This linkage to the electronics sector has been a boon for tin this year. 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. Lockdown, perhaps unsurprisingly, has boosted demand for electronic gadgets. But soldering will also drive increased tin demand as the world tools up for the Industrial Revolution Version 4. Tin is literally the glue that binds together the machines needed to interface with the virtual and robotic worlds. When Rio Tinto commissioned the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study which metals would gain most from "new technology", the answer was tin. MIT saw the "can metal" benefitting from all four megatrends of electric vehicles, renewable energy, advanced robotics and advanced computation and IT. CRITICAL METAL? Tin's usage across such a wide modern manufacturing spectrum is what put it on the U.S. list of critical minerals. 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. The last U.S. tin mine, by contrast, closed in 1993 and the last smelter even earlier in 1989. 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, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/blog/kinh-nghiem-kham-pha-shangri-la-vung-dat-cua-tinh-yeu.html tour Lệ Giang] according to the United States Geological Survey. Is it on China's list of strategic reserves? The country is expected to include a stockpiling programme for strategic commodities in its next five-year plan beginning 2021. State stockpile managers have already been active in the cobalt market. There is much speculation they are one of the reasons China's copper imports are running red-hot this year. Given both China's existing manufacturing base and its drive to dominate next-generation technology, tin is a likely contender for strategic metal status. Macquarie Bank analysts "find enough reason to adjust our supply-demand balance to account for some stocking this year and next". They postulate 5,000 tonnes of Chinese purchases, split across this year and next. ("Commodities Compendium", Sept. 21, 2020). Forecast 2020 and 2021 supply deficits are deepened to 4,400 tonnes and 2,900 tonnes respectively. Indeed, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/blog/kinh-nghiem-kham-pha-shangri-la-vung-dat-cua-tinh-yeu.html kynghidongduong.vn] Macquarie is forecasting consecutive years of supply deficit through 2025. Analysts at Roskill are only slightly less bullish, with forecast shortages through 2023. FRAGILE SUPPLY China has been the world's largest producer and consumer of tin for some years. If lack of domestic resource is a key determinant of a metal's criticality, the country doesn't appear to have a problem. But China has grown heavily reliant on imports of raw material from the tin mines in the Wa area of Myanmar. 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. 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. Smelters such as Yunnan Tin have taken maintenance downtime to compensate for the shortfall of raw material. That in turn has caused the world's largest producer to turn net importer of refined tin so far this year. Smelter margins remain squeezed by a lack of raw material, acting as a restraint on tin production, said state research house Antaike. The coronavirus has exposed China's dependency on its neighbour for tin concentrates. Macquarie notes that "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)". 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. The country's state planners have much to mull over in deciding whether to designate tin a strategic metal. The very fact the old can metal is even on their discussion list suggests the tin market may be due a broader strategic rethink. (Editing by Jan Harvey)

Specialty Of Silver Beauty Of The Yi Nationality

2021-01-03T08:56:11Z

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2021-01-03T08:55:47Z

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