Indonesia is the world's biggest tin exporter. But the land supply is almost gone, so miners are now risking their lives to extract it underwater.

Two sub-contractors deliberately sold illegally mined tin ore to Indonesia's second-biggest tin smelter, PT Koba Tin, a prosecutor told a district court on Thursday.

The tin mining case is by far the biggest in terms of the assessed value of the environmental damage. Indonesia is the world’s No. 2 tin producer, behind only China, and its biggest miner is ...

What’s the connection between your smartphone and crocodile attacks? It’s quite straightforward. Smartphones need tin, which is often mined illegally in Indonesia. When illegal tin mines are ...

Indonesia has raised the royalty rate to be paid by nickel, tin and other metal producers as the government searches for ways to fund President Prabowo Subianto’s ambitious but costly priority ...

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Tin mining in one of the world’s main producers of the metal has sparked the latest in a series of conflicts between illegal miners and traditional fishers in Indonesia.

As Reuters reports, Indonesia's Ministry of Industry has upheld its ban on the iPhone 16 because Apple has yet to meet its domestic content rules. By law, smartphones sold in the country must have ...

Indonesia will reportedly launch a tracking system for nickel and tin on July 22 in a bid to increase government revenue and improve mining governance.

Indonesian authorities are preparing data and assessing current industry conditions to be ready in the event that the government decides to bring in a ban on tin exports, a senior mining ministry ...

The project aiming to restart tin mining receives £4m towards building workshops and offices.

Indonesia launched on Monday an online system to track movements of nickel and tin from mines to domestic processing facilities to improve accountability and government revenue, authorities said ...