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From the bronze age to food cans, the tin alloy has changed to suit human needs
Mixing tin into other metals have given this once useless metals a brand new lease of life.
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Apple, Starbucks and Tiffany & Co get their Tin supply from a rebel army-held Myanmar mine
More than 500 companies, including leading brands such as smartphone maker Apple, coffee giant Starbucks and luxury jeweller Tiffany & Co, list among their suppliers Chinese-controlled firms that indirectly buy ore from the Man Maw mine.