Tin miners have bright future as demand rises by: Robin Bromby...

Tin miners have bright future as demand rises
by: Robin Bromby From: The Australian
March 19, 2012 12:00AM

STAND by for a re-ranking of Australia's tin hopefuls.

Peruvian mining giant Minsur recently put together a list of the world's top tin resources, China being No 1 with 60 per cent of the known tin.

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Grouped together in the resource-size rankings are four Australian companies: Kasbah Resources (KAS) at 54,000 contained tonnes in Morocco; Stellar Resources (SRZ) with 50,370 tonnes near Zeehan; Consolidated Tin Mines (CSD) in Queensland with 43,800 tonnes; and Gippsland (GIP), which is gearing up to produce in Egypt, with 32,960 contained tonnes

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/opinion/tin-miners-have-bright-future-as-demand-rises/story-e6frg9ex-1226303219703

For those, who - like me - tend to forget that the T in YTC stands for tin, a little reminder: we own 25% of Taronga Mines and then there is our Doradilla Project, too ...

"The Taronga deposit represents the largest undeveloped tin deposit on mainland Australia and was extensively explored between 1978 and 1983 by Newmont (Australia) and ICI. "
http://www.ytcresources.com/i/View_Page.aspx?id=19&Lvl=7,19&DGrd=0

The Company's most advanced project is the Taronga tin deposit in the New England region of northern New South Wales. This deposit, with an estimated contained tin content of more than 57,000 tonnes, ...
http://www.tarongamines.com.au/


- The Doradilla Project represents a large and strategic tin project with excellent potential for associated copper, silver, bismuth, indium and zinc mineralisation. The known mineralisation is recorded within a skarn horizon which has an extensive strike length of 16 km (the ‘DMK Line’).
http://www.ytcresources.com/i/View_Page.aspx?id=20&Lvl=7,20&DGrd=0