Namibia is back in the tin business some three decades after the country stopped mining the metal.London-listed AfriTin Mining shipped the first six-ton shipment of tin concentrate from its Uis mine in the Erongo region through Walvis Bay in February this year.The customer is Thaisarco of Thailand, which has signed a one-year offtake agreement with AfriTin.Although mining operations were affected by the countrywide Covid-19 shutdown, the mine said it would continue processing ore, of which it had a two-month stockpile. The Uis tin mine, which started operating in 1911, was put on care and maintenance after tin prices collapsed in the mid-1980s.
