Price of tin

[BCR]

Just wondering if this is an oddity or has it happened in years past? Last year first part of April price of tin in Ontario took a major nosedive after being high all winter, we are almost into June and right now it's 185/nt which basically amounts to close to .10/lb for tin.

Last year it went as low as 100/nt.

Any theories?

 

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[skippy]

I wonder if it doesn't have somthing to do with winter/summer, the volumes in the winter may be less and they may need to offer better prices in winter to keep material coming in. Just a thought.

 

[aa battery]

Here in Cali its $235 a ton but we are close to the smelters....aa

 

[catdriver]

Here in Cali its $235 a ton but we are close to the smelters....aa

If your talking about pure Tin, I think you might have been mislead somewhere along the line.

http://www.purchasing.com/article/CA6501207.html

This is from last november, and I believe it is even more per lb now


oops, ck it out now http://www.purchasing.com/article/CA6565940.html?q=tin+prices


Ron

 

[pygmy]

In USA when they say TIN , they mean what we call roofing iron which is galvanized ( zinc not tin coated )( anti-rust) steel sheet . Nobody buys the element TIN except a chemist or scientist for experiments.
Pressed steel price from SIMS is $250/ tonne. This is cheapest or lowest grade ) under about 3/8 inch or 8mm.Cast iron because of its high carbon content is also the cheapest regardless of size.
The roofing iron, fridges washing machines ovens or any mixed garbage steel is $250 / tonne (1000 Kg )
Geoff.

 

[catdriver]

In USA when they say TIN , they mean what we call roofing iron which is galvanized ( zinc not tin coated )( anti-rust) steel sheet . Nobody buys the element TIN except a chemist or scientist for experiments.Pressed steel price from SIMS is $250/ tonne. This is cheapest or lowest grade ) under about 3/8 inch or 8mm.Cast iron because of its high carbon content is also the cheapest regardless of size.
The roofing iron, fridges washing machines ovens or any mixed garbage steel is $250 / tonne (1000 Kg )
Geoff.

Sir, I hate to disagree with you, but a lot of places use pure tin..... most regular solder, silver solder, all tin cans are steel that is plated with tin
an many other things.

Most people here in the US call sheet metal tin when it really is not. Heres just a few more uses of it


http://www.corrosionsource.com/handbook/periodic/50.htm

Ron B.

 

[pygmy]

Your quiet right Ron , but from a scrap viewpoint TIN ( the element ) is irrelevant.
Just like a discussion about salvaging platinum or rhodium is meaningless.
Salvaging a Cat.Con. is meaningfull.
Here of course I'm taking, as allways, the standpoint of a scrapmetal collector / processor on a modest" at home" scale/basis.
Geoff

 

[catdriver]

Your quiet right Ron , but from a scrap viewpoint TIN ( the element ) is irrelevant.
Just like a discussion about salvaging platinum or rhodium is meaningless.
Salvaging a Cat.Con. is meaningfull.
Here of course I'm taking, as allways, the standpoint of a scrapmetal collector / processor on a modest" at home" scale/basis.
Geoff

The only reason I said anything, is because I have 50 lb of silver solder that is 96.5 pure tin an 3.5 pure silver I am trying to get rid of. So I have about $528.00 worth of tin and about $500.00 worth of silver in these 2 rolls.

Ron

 

[pygmy]

Well Ron as sure as Betsy I would'nt go to a scrap yard with it.
I gather that its provenance is suspect if your having trouble getting rid of it.
Otherwise approach a supplier of it to industry or research, or an end user.

However if I were you I would hoard it under the bed as an investment unless you need the dosh in a hurry.
Geoff

P.S. Lead acid batteries have hit a low of about 7 cents a Lb from a high of 20 cents just before xmas.
The 30 or so I picked up this week will be hoarded but not under the bed.
Geoff

 

[catdriver]

Naaaa, I don't need the $ now anyway. Just thought I would sell it to pay for my new MD.
I bought this along with some other junk at a (Yellow Freight) salvage freight sale a coupla years back. I didn't give very much for the whole pallet of junk. This was down towards the bottom under a bunch of pkgs of big steel washers.
I'm sure they would have took it out if they knew it was on that pallet. Or they didn't know what it was worth maybe.


Ronnie