Tight supply and growing demand is driving tin toward an all-time price high of $50,000 a ton, eclipsing the record $47,800/t ...

Copper is the hot metal for investors thanks to a 38% price rise over the last 12 months but there is another industrial metal, tin, which has also risen by 38% with a repeat of past price blowouts ...

Tin wouldn't come anywhere near the top of most people's list of the most important elements, yet the history of our species is very closely entwined with this dull grey metal. Tin was the basis of ...