List of countries with the largest tin production

The list of the largest tin producers in 2008 shows the People's Republic of China (150,000 tons), Indonesia (100,000 tons) and Peru (38,000 tons) as the world's most important mining nations of tin ore , whose share of the 333,000 tons mined worldwide was 86.5 percent.

Large deposits exist in East and Southeast Asia (People's Republic of China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam), in South America (Peru, Bolivia, Brazil), in West and Central Africa (DR Congo, Niger, Rwanda, Nigeria) and Australia. In Europe, important mining areas are in Russia and Portugal. There were also tin ore deposits in Germany, for example in the Saxon Ore Mountains: Altenberg , Zinnwald , Ehrenfriedersdorf .

The main producers of metallurgical tin in 2007 were the People's Republic of China (151,000 tons), Indonesia (78,000 tons) and Peru (36,000 tons), which together accounted for 76.6 percent of the 346,000 tons produced worldwide. Important producers of metallurgical tin in Europe are Belgium and Russia.

Production, reserves and stock base

The production, the reserves and the stock base in tons are shown. The United States Geological Survey offers the following definition of this: The reserve base is that part of an identified resource that meets the specific minimum physical and chemical criteria for current mining and production practices, including those for grade , Quality , thickness and depth . The reserves are that part of the supply base that could be economically extracted or produced at a given time. The term does not have to mean that extraction systems are installed and working. Reserves only contain exploitable substances.

Figures in tons (2017)

rank	country	advancement	Reserves	Stock base
1.	People's Republic of China	100,000	1,100,000	3,500,000
2.	Indonesia	50,000	800,000	900,000
2.	Myanmar	50,000	113,000	k. A.
4th	Brazil	25,000	700,000	2,500,000
5.	Peru	18,000	710,000	1,000,000
6th	Bolivia	18,000	400,000	900,000
7th	Australia	7,000	150,000	300,000
8th.	Vietnam	5,400	11,000	k. A.
9.	Malaysia	4,000	250,000	600,000
10.	DR Congo	5,800	150,000	k. A.
11.	Nigeria	2,400	k. A.	k. A.
12.	Rwanda	1,800	k. A.	k. A.
13.	Russia	1,000	300,000	350,000
14th	Laos	1,000	k. A.	k. A.
	Other countries	200	180,000	200,000
	world	290,000	4,800,000	11,000,000

Mine production by country

All figures relate to the states within their current borders.

Promotion in tons

Rank (2007)	country	1970	1980	1990	2000	2005	2006	2007
1.	China	20,300	14,600	42,000	99,400	126,000	126,000	135,000
2.	Indonesia	19.092	32,527	30,200	51,629	78,404	80,933	102,000
3.	Peru	103	1,077	5.134	70.901	42,145	38,470	39,019
4th	Bolivia	28,900	27.291	17,249	12,464	18,640	17,669	17,500
5.	Brazil	3,578	6,377	39,149	14,200	11,739	8,528	9,500
6th	Congo, DR	6,458	3.159	2,221	1,750	4,500	3,500	3,500
7th	Vietnam	0	370	850	4,100	5,400	5,400	3,500
8th.	Niger	74	64	38	22nd	3,100	3,100	3,100
9.	Rwanda	1,440	2,069	734	276	3,100	2,600	2,600
10.	Malaysia	73.794	61,404	28,468	6,307	2,857	2,398	2,500
11.	Russia	27,400	34,000	15,000	2,500	3,000	3,000	2,500
12.	Australia	8,828	11,588	7,377	9,146	2,819	1,478	2,085
13.	Nigeria	7,959	2,569	192	2,760	1,300	1,400	1,500
14th	Myanmar	254	1,290	653	212	708	923	900
15th	Laos	1,380	290	500	408	450	450	450
16.	Thailand	21,778	33,685	14,635	1,930	158	190	120
17th	Burundi	49	0	54	8th	4th	46	50
18th	Mexico	533	60	5	4th	17th	25th	25th
19th	Portugal	435	274	1,300	1,227	243	25th	25th
20th	Uganda	122	30th	25th	6th	2	2	2
	Argentina	1,172	351	123	0	0	0	0
	Germany	1,000	1,800	1,806	0	0	0	0
	Great Britain	1,772	2,982	3,400	0	0	0	0
	Japan	793	549	0	0	0	0	0
	Canada	120	243	2,828	0	0	0	0
	Namibia	1,044	1,070	900	0	0	0	0
	Zimbabwe	600	1,300	1,120	0	0	0	0
	Spain	443	437	27	0	0	0	0
	South Africa	1,980	2,913	1,140	0	0	0	0
	Czech Republic	166	322	590	0	0	0	0

World extraction of tin ore

The following table shows the world production of tin ore in thousands of tons.

World production in thousands of tons

year Prod. 1905 94 1906 98 1907 94 1908 106 1909 106 1910 105 1911 112 1912 122 1913 136 1914 128 1915 129 1916 128 1917 135 1918 128 1919 123

year Prod. 1920 126 1921 110 1922 127 1923 130 1924 142 1925 147 1926 146 1927 161 1928 180 1929 196 1930 179 1931 149 1932 97 1933 90 1934 122

year Prod. 1935 137 1936 182 1937 213 1938 166 1939 180 1940 240 1941 244 1942 124 1943 146 1944 102 1945 88 1946 89 1947 115 1948 156 1949 164

year Prod. 1950 172 1951 172 1952 177 1953 193 1954 192 1955 200 1956 203 1957 204 1958 156 1959 164 1960 183 1961 187 1962 190 1963 194 1964 197

year Prod. 1965 204 1966 211 1967 218 1968 232 1969 229 1970 232 1971 235 1972 244 1973 238 1974 233 1975 222 1976 218 1977 231 1978 241 1979 245

year Prod. 1980 245 1981 238 1982 219 1983 197 1984 188 1985 181 1986 173 1987 180 1988 205 1989 233 1990 221 1991 201 1992 191 1993 190 1994 178

year Prod. 1995 201 1996 220 1997 241 1998 231 1999 245 2000 278 2001 246 2002 233 2003 258 2004 298 2005 296 2006 293 2007 301 2008 258 2009 237

year Prod. 2010 253 2011 255 2012 240 2016 288 2017 290

Metallurgical production by country

All figures relate to the states within their current borders.

Production in tons

Rank (2007)	country	1970	1980	1990	2000	2005	2006	2007
1.	China	20,300	14,600	35,000	112,000	122,000	132,000	151,000
2.	Indonesia	5,190	30,465	30,389	46,432	65,300	77,400	77,600
3.	Peru	0	0	0	37,410	36,733	40,495	36.004
4th	Malaysia	92.107	71,318	49,067	26,228	36,924	22,850	25,000
5.	Thailand	22,040	34,689	15,512	17,076	31,600	27,540	20,400
6th	Bolivia	299	18.191	12,567	9,353	13,841	14,100	13,500
7th	United States	4,540	3,000	1,569	6,600	11,700	11,600	11,900
8th.	Brazil	3,100	8,792	37,830	14,100	9,236	9,030	9,250
9.	Belgium	4,257	2,822	6,063	8,500	7,000	6,000	5,000
10.	Russia	27,400	38,000	19,700	5,300	5,500	5,480	4,200
11.	Vietnam	0	0	1,800	1,800	1,766	1,830	2,000
12.	Japan	1,375	1,319	816	593	754	854	874
13.	Australia	5,211	4,819	512	1,075	894	972	518
14th	Denmark	0	0	100	100	100	100	100
15th	Greece	0	0	700	150	100	100	100
16.	Czech Republic	65	0	613	100	100	100	100
17th	Norway	0	0	100	50	50	50	50
18th	Myanmar	0	0	275	30th	30th	30th	30th
19th	Mexico	960	1,322	5,004	1,204	17th	25th	25th
20th	Bulgaria	0	0	64	10	10	10	10
21st	Spain	3,908	4,100	800	25th	10	10	10
	Argentina	120	300	180	0	0	0	0
	Germany	2,313	4,062	3,362	0	0	0	0
	Great Britain	22,035	5,829	12,000	0	0	0	0
	Congo, DR	1,396	216	90	0	0	0	0
	Netherlands	5,937	1,100	6,100	0	0	0	0
	Portugal	392	938	1,404	0	0	0	0
	Zimbabwe	610	934	838	0	0	0	0
	Singapore	0	0	2,500	0	0	0	0
	South Africa	613	1,100	1,210	0	0	0	0

literature

• Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag: Fischer-Weltalmanach. Figures-data-facts , 1960 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ USGS: World Mine Production, Reserves, and Reserve Base (PDF; 88 kB)
2. ^ World Mine Production. Retrieved June 4, 2018 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} USGS: Tin Statistics and Information
4. ↑ USGS: World Production (PDF; 279 kB)

Web links

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