Current sn price: $50215.00 — +0.00% over the past 24 hours.
Tin Price History
Tin set a fresh all-time high near $59,000 per tonne in June 2026, driven by AI data-center solder demand colliding with Myanmar and Indonesia supply shocks in a small, illiquid market.
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EmbedTin Price Records
Tin's major peaks and the fresh 2026 record. Prices are LME, USD per tonne.
All-Time High
~$59,000
June 2, 2026 (intraday/futures peak; the LME 3-month high was just under that, and cash settlement was lower)
| Date | High (USD/tonne) | What Drove It |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 2011 | ~$33,600 | The post-financial-crisis commodity supercycle plus tight Indonesian and Chinese supply drove tin to a record that stood for roughly a decade. |
| Mar 2022 | ~$51,000 | A post-COVID electronics and solder demand surge collided with broken supply chains and record-low LME stocks, producing a near-vertical squeeze that smashed the 2011 record. |
| Apr 2024 | ~$35,575 | A supply-driven spike (not a record) as Myanmar's Man Maw mine stayed shut after the 2023 ban and Indonesian export permits were delayed; prices later eased toward $28,000. |
| Jan 15, 2026 | ~$53,462 | The first decisive break above the 2022 record, on chronic Indonesian export constraints, the Myanmar feedstock shortage, and surging AI and data-center solder demand. |
| Jun 2, 2026Record | ~$59,000 | The all-time high: Indonesian refined-tin exports collapsed (down more than 40% year over year, plus a crackdown on unlicensed mines) while the AI data-center build-out boosted solder demand into a thin, deficit market. |
Two caveats on the record: the ~$59,000 figure is an intraday and futures peak, so cash and settlement prints are lower; and on an inflation-adjusted basis the 2011 and 2022 peaks are closer to 2026 levels than the nominal numbers suggest. Prices are nominal USD per tonne.
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Tin Price Through the Decades
Tin trades on the LME as one of the smallest and least liquid base-metal markets, with demand dominated by solder for electronics, so its price history is defined by supply shocks and sharp squeezes rather than smooth cycles. After the 2000s commodity boom and the 2008 crash, tin rode the post-crisis supercycle to a then-record near $33,600 per tonne in April 2011, helped by tight Indonesian and Chinese supply. That record stood for about a decade as prices spent the 2010s largely between roughly $13,000 and $23,000.
The next defining episode was the 2021 to 2022 melt-up. A post-COVID rebound in electronics, 5G, and solder demand collided with broken supply chains and record-low LME stocks, driving a near-vertical squeeze to roughly $51,000 per tonne in March 2022, smashing the 2011 record. The move proved unsustainable: by late 2022, recession fears and destocking crushed tin back toward the high teens.
The next leg up was supply-driven and more durable. Myanmar's Wa State mining ban from August 2023, combined with chronic Indonesian export delays, produced a 2024 spike to about $35,575 before prices eased. From late 2025 a genuine deficit narrative took hold: an Indonesian export collapse and illegal-mining crackdown, persistent Myanmar feedstock shortages, and surging AI and data-center solder demand pushed tin to fresh nominal records, clearing $53,000 in mid-January 2026 and spiking to an intraday all-time high near $59,000 per tonne on June 2, 2026, before a pullback to around $50,000 to $51,000 by late June. See the live chart above for the current price.
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