Indonesian Tin Exports Drop 64% as Bad Weather Hurts Mining
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Refined-tin shipments from Indonesia, the world’s largest exporter, plunged 64 percent in January from a month earlier after bad weather disrupted mining, reducing ore supplies to smelters.
Exports dropped to 5,380 metric tons from 15,103 tons in December, Toto Rusbianto, head of mining exports at the Trade Ministry, said in a mobile-phone text message today. Sales were 7,335 tons in January last year.