Local police on Indonesia’s Bangka island seized 37 tonnes of illegal tin ore on Friday from a warehouse, a police official told Reuters, marking the second seizure this year. Police had previously seized 5 tonnes of illegal tin ore from another warehouse on 15 January. Juwari, South Bangka police chief, said the warehouse had a licence to collect and produce tin ore from its partners, but that the police had found that it received tin ore from illegal miners too.
