Phoenix Metal Ltd is a tin smelter located in Kigali in Rwanda The Karuruma tin smelter was built in the early 1980s to produce tin from concentrate coming from the Société des Mines du Rwanda SOMIRWA SOMIRWA managed the smelter until 1985 when it went bankrupt The smelter was reopened at the end of 1990 by a company called ALICOM but was closed again in April 1994 when the Rwandan