Timah's operations unaffected by quake
Tuesday, December 28 2004 - 01:26 AM WIB
Indonesian tin producer PT Timah said on Monday that the earthquake in the Indian Ocean didn't disrupt the company's operations at Bangka island, off the east coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island.
"Operations in our mining site are going on as usual because it is far from the earthquake's epicenter," Timah's president Thobrani Alwi told Dow Jones Newswires.
PT Timah is the world's largest integrated tin miner, and its main mining site is on Bangka island.
Tin is mainly used in the chemicals, electronics and plating industries.
The company expects to produce between 35,000 metric tons and 40,000 tons of tin in 2004, down from 45,906 tons in 2003.(*)