Tin Forum 2026

Yonghong Li
Executive Director of Lide Holding Co.
General Manager of Yafela Trading (Beijing) Ltd.
Topic: Recommendation for High-Quality Tin Ore Resources Project in Brazil

Graduated with a Japanese major from Shanxi University, Mr. Li holds an MBA in Agricultural Resources from Renmin University of China and a Transnational Management MBA from the University of São Paulo (USP/FlA) in Brazil. With over 30 years of deep expertise in China-Brazil bilateral trade and investment, Mr. Li has an extensive understanding of Brazil's political, economic, and cultural landscape. He began his career in 1989 at the Shanxi Provincial Department of Economy and Trade, where he was responsible for developing business in the Brazilian market. From 1991 to 2007, he was stationed in Brazil for 16 years, serving successively as Director of China-Brazil Commercial Import and Export Company and Chairman of Asia-America Commercial Import and Export Company. He was also a founding member and Deputy General Manager of the former Ministry of Commerce's China (Brazil) Investment, Development, and Trade Center. In 2007, he jointly established Consiber Hong Kong and Consiber China with Brazil's largest industrial and commercial group, the Consiber Group. In 2009, he founded Lead Holding and Asia-Africa-Latin America International Trade Company, continuing to deepen his commitment to China-Brazil investment and trade.

Yafela Trading (Beijing) Ltd. is a founding member of the China-Brazil Entrepreneurs Committee and is dedicated to promoting bilateral economic and trade cooperation across multiple sectors. The company currently focuses on mineral resource development in Brazil, collaborating with multiple teams in Brazil specializing in exploration, legal affairs, investment banking, and other professional fields. After rigorous review of exploration reports, qualifications, and other documentation for multiple mines, along with on-site inspections and in-depth discussions with mine owners, the Asia-Africa-Latin America team has selected over ten high-potential mining projects. These projects cover a variety of minerals, including gold, copper, tin, bauxite, iron, and tantalum-niobium ores. Most have already obtained mining rights, and some are operational projects. Yafela Trading (Beijing) Ltd. holds exclusive authorizations for these mines and is confident in effectively supporting domestic enterprises in expanding into the Brazilian market and accessing more high-quality mineral resources in Brazil.

Sele Obomhense
General Manager of Treseca Mekios
Topic: Tin Sheds in Nigeria

He is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder; and has substantial experience in program/project management, and consultancy services having worked at Software Architects, Sybase and Budget corporations in the US. As the Founding Director of Treseca and Managing Director of Mekios; over the last 20 years he’s developed the mineral & mining initiatives at both companies. Ranging from mining exploration, artisanal extraction, mineral trading and mineral consultancy services.

Treseca is a mineral trading company with clients in the Far East, Europe and USA. Treseca also provides consultancy services to various blue-chip companies in Nigeria and some diplomatic missions. Currently Treseca is poised to assemble a mineral processing plant for rare & precious minerals, metals, i.e. gold, tantalite & niobium.

Suthar Visagapperumal
Chairman and Founder of the Indviz Group
Topic: Mining Operations in Nigeria

Mr. Suthar Visagapperumal, Chairman and Founder of the Indviz Group with subsidiaries in construction, oil & gas and manufacturing, diversified into the rare earth minerals sector with Indviz Metals Limited in 2018.

Situated in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria the company has processed minerals such as Tin, Columbite, Tantalite, Wolframite, Monozite and Zircon to international standards and exported same to buyers from several countries.

Mr. Suthar has an MSc in Architecture from the University of Nigeria and is a Lagos Business School Alumnus.

Dato' Derek Teng Hooi Kheong
Chairman and Founder of Setara Jelita Sdn Bhd.
President, Malaysia Maritime Silk Route Research Society
Deputy Vice Chairman, Malaysia China Business Council
Topic: The Development History of Tin Mines in Malaysia

An internationally-oriented entrepreneur and investor with over 25 years of executive leadership and board-level experience. Extensive background in corporate governance, strategic investment, and cross-border business development. With many years of hands-on experience in mining exploration, resource extraction, and commodity trading. Actively involved in advisory, resource-based, and migration-related industries, supported by strong regional and international networks.

Bentley Atteberry
CEO of Myst Trading Pte Ltd.
Topic: The demand and prospects for tin mines in Asian

A seasoned financial and entrepreneurial leader with extensive experience spanning institutional investment management and international commodity trading. He founded Myst Capital Group in 2017, establishing a foothold in the financial commodity markets. In 2024, Mr. Atteberry led the transition of Myst into the physical mineral and metals business through the establishment of Myst Trading Pte Ltd where he currently serves in an executive leadership role.

Myst Trading Pte Ltd is a physical commodity trading and mineral investment company that sources raw materials through global partnerships with strategic upstream and downstream clients. Operating across key African markets, Singapore, and China, the company enhances its margins by aggregating materials from multiple sources and adding value through processing. It also partners with small-scale miners to improve production efficiencies while investing in upgrades to enhance production. Through its mining and metals division, Myst Trading secures off-take agreements and holds equity stakes in a various mine and processing plants, ensuring a stable supply chain and creating additional revenue streams.

Jinqiu Tai
General Manager
Honghe Jucheng Industry Co.
Topic: The demand and prospects for tin mines in Asian

Graduated from Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, majoring in Finance (International Finance). In June 2015, obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Business Studies from Charles Sturt University, Australia. In May 2022, completed a Master's degree in Project Management at the University of Greenwich. Since October 2016, has been deeply involved in the tin sector trade for a decade. Starting in 2016, their team became the largest single supplier of tin raw materials to Yunnan Tin Group. To date, they have established three major non-ferrous metal trading sectors: tin ore, and has achieved a leading market position in the non-ferrous metal sectors of tin, lead, and zinc in Honghe, surpassing RMB 10 billion in revenue within three years. In 2022, in line with the team's strategic plan, Jucheng Industrial was established independently. The company is dedicated to tin ingot trading and gradually extending to the downstream sector, assisting the team in achieving a full industry chain layout and realizing optimized resource allocation.

Jucheng Industrial is a comprehensive enterprise deeply engaged in the import and export trade of tin ingots. With a global resource layout, advantages in full industry chain synergy, and an innovative and progressive development strategy, it has established an excellent brand image in the non-ferrous metal trading industry. The company's team has been engaged the industry for a decade, possessing extensive resources and experience across the entire industrial chain. Steady yet progressive, with a global vision, as a pioneer enterprise focusing on tin ingot import and export trade within the industry, it stands out in the fierce market competition by virtue of its exceptional resource integration capabilities, professional service team, and innovative development concepts, becoming a vital bridge connecting domestic and international tin ingot markets.

Jiasong Zhang
Founder and Chairman
Hunan Yuxiling New Material Co., Ltd.
Topic: Future Engine - The Invisible Revolution from ATO, ITO to Green Technology and the Intelligent World

Mr. Jiasong Zhang has long been deeply engaged in the fields of advanced materials and new energy materials, and is one of the important promoters of the industrialization of carbon-based functional materials in China. He is currently the Founder and Chairman of Hunan Yuxiling New Material Co., Ltd. and a representative unit member of the Hunan High-Performance New Material Industry Alliance. In his early years, he engaged in materials science research at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. For over two decades, he has continuously focused on technological breakthroughs and industrial transformation in carbon materials, lithium battery conductive agents, and new functional material systems.

In recent years, he has led his team to conduct in-depth explorations in the continuous preparation of single-walled carbon nanotubes, graphene conductive materials, and new battery material systems, promoting the engineering and large-scale application of several key material technologies, thus contributing significantly to the independent innovation of China's new material industry and the development of the new energy industry.