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Top-earning miners make about $13 a day. The tin they mine gets used in common products like phones, makeup, and food cans. Indonesia is the world's biggest exporter of tin, and more than 90% of the ...

Dartmoor once boasted several hundred tin mines, and the industry played an important part in the area's economy. Mining on the moor goes back 800 years - to the mid-12th century, and there were ...

which is one of the world’s largest underground mines and the richest in ore-grade tin, according to the company. Today it produces 12% of the world’s tin and creates over 2,000 jobs in the ...

Mr. Bartels has spent the greater part of his life in the tin mines of Europe. Hearing of the discovery of tin north of Nome he hurried there, and subsequently discovered the first tin ledges at ...

A former tin mine in Cornwall has held a gala day to celebrate the 30th anniversary of its becoming a museum. Among the face painting and music were former miners from Geevor mine, which closed in ...

LONDON, Sept 13 (Reuters) - It's been just over a year since the Man Maw tin mine in Myanmar, one of the world's largest sources of the strategic metal, halted production. While high raw material ...

Smartphones need tin, which is often mined illegally in Indonesia. When illegal tin mines are abandoned, they fill with water. Crocodiles enter from nearby waterways, looking for food, as fishing ...

Magnificent photographs capturing scenes of Perak’s tin mining industry in the 1970s, featured in the photography book Eric Peris’ Tin Mine Landscapes, have immortalised this aspect of the ...

19, repr.) In 1942 Sutherland, in his capacity as an official war artist, was commissioned to paint the tin mines at Geevor in Cornwall. “To make drawings of the mines had only the vaguest relation to ...

Top-earning miners make about $13 a day. The tin they mine gets used in common products like phones, makeup, and food cans. Indonesia is the world's biggest exporter of tin, and more than 90% of ...