Tin is one of the oldest metals used by humans, with the expanding industrial uses of tin, tin mining, smelting and processing has been rapidly developing, and progressively formed a wide range of the tin industry. Nowadays, the old tin still a indispensable modern industrial rare metals, known as “industrial monosodium glutamate”, widely used in electronics, information, electronics, chemical industry, metallurgy, building materials, machinery, food packaging and other industries.
World tin resources are mainly distributed in China, Indonesia, Peru, Brazil, Malaysia, Bolivia, and Russia, Thailand and Australia and other countries. Our Chinese tin mainly locates in Yunnan, Guangxi, Hunan, Inner Mongolia, Guangdong and Jiangxi provinces; these six provinces tin reserve accounts for about 98% of Chinese identified tin reserves.
Commonly the tin industrially developed countries are tin-rich countries through the world, such as the United Kingdom, Thailand’s tin industry used to be prosperous, but the depletion of resources leaded to the production decline of tin. Currently China and Peru has relatively developed tin production technology, and Malaysia, Thailand has world-renowned tin arts and tin crafts, for the tin deep-processing, which mainly conducted in Europe, Japan and other developed countries where have obvious advantages in quality. Under this circumstance, the status of global tin industry is the developing countries produce mainly raw materials, and developed areas take deep processing work.
In 2014 Chinese production of tin was 186,900 tons, with an increase of 17.9% compared to the previous year. From the statistical data, tin production was in a fluctuating upward trend nearly 5 years, and in 2014 tin production growth accelerated, the growth rate reached 17.9 %, the researchers widely predicted it would hit 204,000 tons by 9.2% growth rate in 2015 in China.
