Silver Institute's Silver News

[Voodoo]

Yeah, but its a silly metric. If they really wanted to know the Silver used they would be looking for how many panels were made. Looking to see if they are installed is silly, perhaps only a way to help verify production.

 

[Voodoo]

Yep, I picked that out pretty quick. Only takes a minute to start ranting on that chart. Lol

 

[pmbug]

October 2025 issue:

• Silver Price Posts All-Time High
• Physical Silver’s Growing Importance to Global Silver Demand: In-Depth Report
• US Mint Aims to Stop Counterfeiters with Laser Engraved ‘Privy’ Marks
• Nanosilver Particles Help Produce ‘Super Capacitor’
• Building Electronic Components in Space
• Silver Nanofilms Can Reduce Food Dyes in Soft Drinks
• Seeing in the Dark with Silver Nanowires

https://silverinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Silver-News-OCT2025.pdf

 

[searcher]

Silver Surges, Far Outpacing Gold’s Rally This Year | The Capital Spectator

 

[SilverStacker]

I agree silver is the key but I'm not selling gold to buy it. What gold I have is a hedge even if Ive slowed down on buying it and concentrating on silver.

 

[pmbug]

Brutal:

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On April 15 they published their annual report and, as in past, there is no shortage of glaring inconsistencies. To begin with, alongside physical mine production and recycling, they added 45 million ounces to last year's physical supply, and 10 million ounces to this year's supply through a category called hedging. Hedging is a financial construct, it is not part of the physical supply of a commodity. You cannot make a solar panel produce energy from hedged silver any more than you can grow a corn crop by buying corn futures. To quote the Silver Institute "options remain the preferred method of hedging." I am aware how an out of the money put or call can become valuable, but I didn't know that options could literally transform themselves into silver mines.

In their latest report they also retroactively increased mine and recycling supply for 2025 by a total of 29 million ounces. In other words, their magic wand conjured up a total of 84 million ounces of silver out of thin air from one year to the next.

However, these increases in supply pale in comparison with the decreases on the demand side, where they unleashed several full scale assaults.
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More:

The Silver Institute Strikes Again -- John Macintosh

Ironically, silver's dirty little secret may well be this; the grimy industrial side of this unappreciated and, for many decades, unloved metal, may end up proving how uniquely precious it is.

silverseek.com

 

[Viking]

Brutal:

More:

The Silver Institute Strikes Again -- John Macintosh

Ironically, silver's dirty little secret may well be this; the grimy industrial side of this unappreciated and, for many decades, unloved metal, may end up proving how uniquely precious it is.

silverseek.com

He may be correct. But I am not sure one can compare solar panels of 2014 to today in silver per watt. Panels have become much more efficient.

 

[Viking]

FWIW:

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