{"id":11809,"date":"2024-04-07T11:50:59","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T11:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=11809"},"modified":"2024-04-07T11:51:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T11:51:04","slug":"uganda-on-course-to-set-up-tin-processing-plant-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/uganda-on-course-to-set-up-tin-processing-plant-next-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda On Course To Set Up Tin Processing Plant Next Month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Our Reporters <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uganda through the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development is set to launch  the first  tin refining plant in the southwestern region next month, a senior Mining Ministry official said, as part of efforts to expand capacity and add value domestically to its minerals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Yoweri Museveni wants to maximise the benefits of exports to the&nbsp;country, where several gold refineries are operating, and Chinese-backed Sunbird Resources was recently licensed to mine limestone for cement production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are preparing to launch our very first tin processing facility,&#8221;  Eng.Irene Bateebe, permanent secretary of\u00a0Energy and Mineral Development Ministry, told\u00a0the international  media  this week .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Woodcross Resources, a Uganda-based mining and mineral trading company, owns the plant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;They will be refining tin to over 99 percent\u00a0in terms of its purity,&#8221; Bateebe added, without revealing the size of the investment. Woodcross did not immediately respond to a request for a comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Woodcross says it has a tin mining licence covering 40 square km (15 sq miles) in Western Uganda and its tin refining plant has annual capacity of more than 1,000 tonnes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Editor :msserwanga@gmail.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Our Reporters Uganda through the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development is set to launch the first tin refining<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[388],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uganda-s-minerals"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/irene.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11057,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/government-sets-new-standards-for-ugandas-tin-exports\/","url_meta":{"origin":11809,"position":0},"title":"Government Sets New Standards for Uganda&#8217;s Tin Exports","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"December 27, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Government of Uganda through the Minister of Energy and Mineral Development, has approved a ew statutory instrument that sets higher purity levels for tin exports. 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