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: undetermined

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.