LBMA's Silver Good Delivery List

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I'm not sure what the immediate implications are for this. Is China getting ready to sell/deliver silver to the LBMA? Or are they going to be busy recasting silver into LBMA good delivery specs for vaulting in China?
 
I was wondering the same

Just a quick note, LBMA good delivery is a feature of a refinery, not of an ingot.
Technically speaking there aren't LBMA good delivery bars but only LBMA good delivery refineries.
The LBMA good delivery list isn't a list of bars specs but of refineries.
 


Thinking about this a bit more with respect to the LBMA vaults apparently draining as mentioned in the silver demand drivers thread - maybe the LBMA is trying to expand it's supplier list to increase opportunities for buying silver and replenishing it's vaults.
 
How does China let Silver get refined there and then sent to the LBMA? Seems counter-productive to their recent interests.
 
How does China let Silver get refined there and then sent to the LBMA? Seems counter-productive to their recent interests.

I think that's the point Vince was making in the video I posted. The price of silver in the West has to rise to match (or exceed) the price in China before silver will flow to LBMA vaults.

It's natural to look at this news through the lens of "how does it benefit China?", but I am now suspecting that it's really driven by "how desperate is the LBMA to find potential suppliers for silver as their vaults are draining?"
 
Stumbled upon this page with lots of info about LBMA good delivery specifications and accreditation:

 
From a month or so ago:
 
How does China let Silver get refined there and then sent to the LBMA? Seems counter-productive to their recent interests.
As long as Western silver price is lower than Shanghai's, yes you are right, economically it's non viable.
Unless there is an official Western silver price and an un-official Western silver price.
PM wholesale broker A. Maguire mentioned several times this disconnection on kinesis LFTV podcast, saying that they are not allowed to put larger buy orders for physical silver - at least not at the spot price.
Physical silver in London is not traded at the fake official silver price.

Another question is, how is it possible for Chinese refineries to send silver ingots to the LMBA given China's export ban of precious metals.
 

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