The Unavoidable Silver Shortage

Looking At The Numbers

Recently published data points argued that recycled silver cannot continue to meet the gap between supply and demand. The supply of recycled silver dropped 24% last year, which is the largest decrease on record. Supply is also falling. Seven of the ten leading silver mines produced less silver in 2013 than in 2012. Production in the Silver State, Nevada, is down 70.4% over the past 16 years. The US Geological Survey reports that ore grades have collapsed 90%, which means that far more ore has to be mined in order to produce the same amount of silver. Exploration has also come to almost a complete halt due to higher financing costs, so there is little chance of new finds of sources of silver.
On the demand side, physical demand has increased 13%. Last year the U.S. Mint actually sold out of silver products, reports said. China’s use of silver for solar panels was less than 1 million in ounces in 2005, but in 2013 China used 35 million ounces just for solar panels. In 1999, the amount of silver used in solar panels in the United States was not even reported. By 2015, 100 million ounces of silver are projected for solar energy use.

Some 62% of silver is used for industrial applications, 21% for jewelry, and 12% for coins. Given these used, the data argues that “95% of all silver consumed is gone, never to enter the supply side again.”
Even so, “A real shortage in the physical markets is being completely ignored.”
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The Coming Silver Shortage

Last week, CrushTheStreet.com posted a video called “The Coming Silver Shortage.” Its main point is that “all available supply [of silver] is being consumed, and a real shortage in the physical markets is being completely ignored.”






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SILVER COINS - Royal Canadian Mint Wildlife Series

 RCM Silver Wildlife Series

Royal Canadian Mint Wildlife Silver Coins - With a limited mintage of only 1,000,000 each, these Wildlife Series Silver coins are scarce in the world of bullion! There were a total of six different Canadian wildlife designs released in three years: the Timber Wolf and Grizzly in 2011, the Cougar and Moose in 2012, and the Wood Bison and Pronghorn Antelope in 2013. With the .9999 fine Silver purity, $5 CAN face value, articulate wildlife design and low mintage, the Canadian Wildlife Series 1 oz Silver Coins are a hit with bullion enthusiasts and coin collectors alike!

The Royal Canadian Mint has cemented its reputation for producing some of the purest bullion coins on earth with the Canadian Silver Wildlife Series.

Celebrating Canada’s vast and bountiful wildlife, each Silver Wildlife Coin is composed of 1 troy ounce of .9999 pure silver, backed and guaranteed by the Canadian government.

he Canadian Silver Maple Leaf is a silver bullion coin issued annually by the government of Canada. The coin has been minted by the Royal Canadian Mint (R.C.M.) since 1988.

The face value of the coin is 5 Canadian Dollars.
The market value of the coin varies, depending on the 'spot price' of Silver (plus a small premium).

A common blemish that many Canadian Silver Maple Leaves carry is the "Milk Spot." It is a baked-in blemish that has a milky white appearance. This happens when a cleaning detergent is left on the coin when the coin goes into the annealing furnace.

The coin always features a maple leaf and generally consists of 1 troy ounce (31.1 g) of silver. Annual variations for the coin in past have included proof releases (1989 only), privy marks, a coloured maple leaf (with a design different from the regular maple leaf),
The one universal element in all silver maple leaf coins is the phrase "Fine Silver 1 oz Argent Pur" along the bottom of the reverse of the coin.

For many Americans the country of Mexico conjures up images of a third world nation. The poverty, lack of basic services, and extreme violence has left the populace so desperate that thousands of people on a daily basis head to the United States for a better life.

But according to Future Money Trends, all that could change in the near future as key Mexican financial leaders and politicians have been working to institute sweeping monetary change that, if implemented, could unleash a global power shift of epic proportions.

“Take just three or four men out of the ‘anti’ group,” says Hugo Salinas Price, a Mexican multi-billionaire and the man behind the monetary push, “and we could practically get a unanimous ‘yes’ vote in both houses.”

Like recent monetary shifts in Russia, China and the middle east that aim to divest themselves of US dollar reserve trade requirements, the news of such a move in Mexico has been downplayed. And though it is being generally ignored as a serious possibility, a powerful consortium of influential people in Mexico believe it is a realistic possibility, and one that could be responsible for shifting the balance of world power.

During the third quarter of 2013, silver mining costs averaged $21.39 per ounce, Tony Davis, owner of Atlanta Gold & Coin Buyers, states in an article published in The Paramus Post. That’s above the price that silver is currently selling for — $20.25 per ounce at yesterday’s close. Peter Schiff, author of Real Crash: America’s Coming Bankruptcy, tells Yahoo! Finance’s Breakout show he predicts that a major economic collapse will happen by 2015 that will make the 2008 recession pale in comparison.

He warns hyperinflation may ensue if the government again prints money out of thin air to bail out mortgage lenders and others, and warns against depending on the stability of the dollar: “Anything in dollars, even if you’ve got dollars stuffed in your mattress you’re going to lose because they’re not going to buy you what you expect.”





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Prepare 2014! Out of Control Chaos Coming with Shortages of Gold, Silver, Food, Gasoline and More

Publisher of "The Hat Trick Letter," Dr. Jim Willie, predicts, "In the United States, we are going to have shortages across the board, and that includes gold and silver. Just think food and gasoline. That's when the riots are going to start. You are going to see out of control chaos and the government stepping in to restore order. . . . Shortages and price inflation are going to drive people out of their minds." Join Greg Hunter for an in-depth One-on-One interview with Dr. Jim Willie, who can be found on GoldenJackass.com.
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Silver Demand to Increase by 20-Million Ounces by 2018

Posted on August 7, 2014 by Editor


According to a new report released by the Silver Institute, the demand for silver is expected to exceed projected global GDP growth. Silver demand should grow by 5% per year from 2014 to 2016. Demand for industrial silver, which accounts for over 50% of global demand, will rise due to its use in three key areas: flexible electronics displays, LEDs, and semiconductor computer chips.

“With the introduction of these advanced uses of silver in the electrical and electronics category, which last year provided over 40% of total silver industrial demand, along with growth in established uses, we should see silver industrial demand develop even further, especially as economies grow globally.” – Michael DiRienzo, Executive Director of the Silver Institute.
http://blog.europacmetals.com/2014/08/silver-demand-to-increase-by-20-million-ounces-by-2018/


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China & The Silver Shortage

China, who in 2005 used less than a million ounces of silver for solar panels, absorbed 35 million ounces for solar in 2013.
    62% of silver is used for industrial applications like nearly all of our electronics, biology, medicine, and other commercial uses. 21% is used for jewelry and 12% for coins.
    95% of all silver consumed is gone, never to enter the supply side again.

On the industrial side of silver, there is about 28 cents in your cell phone, unless silver reaches the thousands of dollars per ounce, that silver is gone!

Silver formed into jewelry is the most costly silver, both because of its use and personal value to those who own it. This silver is essentially gone!

Silvers new uses are rising, all available supply is being consumed and a real shortage in the physical markets is being completely ignored due to the paper markets which sell at least 100 ounces of silver for every physical ounce that in reality is available.

Silver’s use in solar panels was not even reported in 1999, by 2015, it is estimated that 100 million ounces of silver are projected for solar energy use.
http://etfdailynews.com/2014/07/29/the-coming-silver-shortage/


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The Future Silver Shortage

It's down only because TPTB (the powers that be) are manipulating the price on the COMEX. And they only sell paper silver. They don't even have any silver. It's a con game to manipulate the price so we the people can't make any profit. But the time is coming, very soon, when their ponzi scheme will be over. Then silver price will skyrocket. It is just a matter of time. Buy now while there is silver to buy. When the price starts going up you won't be able to get any. It's cheap, it's available and the door is closing. 

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The Coming Silver Shortage

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Silver Price Forecast for 2014

We are at a crossroads for World economies in 2014. Asian growth is declining and developing countries and their currencies are facing a crisis head-on. Will central banks continue to beat back deflation, or will they continue to consume toxic debt and assets and keep the deflationary monster at bay? Thanks for the intro Mel !!!



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Silver: The Opportunity Is Now

Why Is Silver Attractive Right Now? Join Mike Maloney and Ed Steer for their thoughts on the current market and why silver bullion is such an opportunity.

Shot in Vancouver, Canada June 2, 2014





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Will Silver Breakout of range?

Silver is often an overlooked precious metal, especially in comparison to the publicity garnered by gold and platinum. The last several months has seen silver trade in a range of $18.75 to $20.25 per oz. While picking tops and bottoms is next to impossible, that range did create some nice trading opportunities for market participants. More importantly perhaps, an extended period of consolidation, such as the one that we have seen in the silver market most recently, often foreshadows a significant breakout to either the up- or downside. With the recent uptick by $4.490 on heavy volume, we may have seen the start of a break-out to the upside, with both technical and fundamental factors in agreement.

Fundamental Factors

In February, I wrote an article on Silver, explaining why silver was poised to become the best performing precious metal of 2014. While to date, this has not materialized, more recent developments in silver is giving renewed hope that there may be some truth to that prediction. While there is some debate about the actual cost of producing silver, the consensus cost of production hovers somewhere between the $18 and $22 per oz. mark. With that in mind, the latest trading range for silver is slightly below or at least at the lower end of the production cost spectrum, perhaps suggesting forthcoming price appreciation. That current price level may be unsustainable long-term is further evidenced by some silver mines cutting back on output. The latest example: The world’s largest silver mine, run by BHP Billiton Ltd.'s in Cannington, Australia, announced last week that it was ending production. This should put further downward pressure on supplies, propping prices up. Coupled with a decrease in scrap availability, we may even see a silver shortage.

According to the Silver Institute, physical demand for silver stood at a record 1,081 million ounces last year. The largest component of physical silver demand, industrial applications, dipped by less than 1% to 586.6 million ounces in 2013, to account for 54% of physical silver demand. In the same year, Asia, however experienced a 3% increase in silver industrial demand, led by China, where a continued recovery in the electrical and electronics sector, along with gains in the ethylene oxide industry, took total Asian industrial offtake to a new high. In fact, one of the growing industrial uses for silver is photovoltaic cells in solar panels. As the world seeks alternative forms of energy, this application should continue to grow in importance.
http://www.futuresmag.com/2014/06/28/a-silver-lining-in-precious-metals






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The Silver Price Manipulation Conspiracy

By: GoldSilverWorlds

Ted Butler writes: It’s now going on close to 30 years since I first discovered that silver was manipulated by excessive and concentrated short selling on the COMEX. I remember the exact moment like it occurred yesterday. It’s hard to believe I was in my 30’s when this started. As I’ve explained previously, I was looking for an answer to Izzy Friedman’s question as to how and why silver prices remained so low when the market was in a supply/demand deficit.
Through no great accomplishment on my part, aside from having a futures market background of almost 15 years at the time, it suddenly dawned on me that silver prices were dictated on the COMEX, to the point of price manipulation. Everything that has transpired since has only confirmed to me that silver prices are still manipulated on the COMEX.
That is not to say that there haven’t been many historical developments since 1985 in the silver market; just that none of those events do anything but confirm the ongoing silver manipulation. Not even an extreme price surge from $4 to $49 detracts from the manipulation premise; as how could any commodity jump that much with no big change in supply and demand if it wasn’t artificially priced too low to begin with?

Some, but not all, of the big silver developments to me were the sudden doubling of prices and even faster decline in 1987, the buying of silver by Warren Buffett in 1998 (perhaps due to my writing of metals leasing), the depletion of US Government stockpiles in 2001, 60 years after being the world’s largest holder of silver with nearly 6 billion oz, the introduction of the world’s first silver ETF, SLV, in 2006 and my discovery in 2008 that the rescue of Bear Stearns resulted in its massive concentrated short position being transferred to JPMorgan according to CFTC correspondence.
Other personal highlights were getting the CFTC to investigate the silver market at least three times, although the agency claimed to find no wrongdoing that it could prosecute and seeing so many come to realize that silver is a manipulated market through public data in the COT reports. None of these developments did anything but strengthen my conviction that silver was manipulated on the COMEX in the manner I discovered suddenly in 1985.
Very recently, I’ve had a second epiphany or Eureka moment similar to what hit me 29 years ago, although the circumstances were different and I thought I had already used up my lifetime quota of epiphanies. Whereas I was consciously seeking the answer to a perplexing question nearly three decades ago, this time I came across something I wasn’t looking for. In fact, while I used the word manipulation from the start, I avoided, like the plague, ever referring to the silver manipulation in terms of a conspiracy. For one thing, the term had always seemed derogatory to me and besides, I truly believed the manipulation was limited to a small handful of COMEX insider firms and individual traders. No more is that the case.
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The Silver Conspiracy

It’s now going on close to 30 years since I first discovered that silver was manipulated by excessive and concentrated short selling on the COMEX. I remember the exact moment like it occurred yesterday. It’s hard to believe I was in my 30’s when this started. As I’ve explained previously, I was looking for an answer to Izzy Friedman’s question as to how and why silver prices remained so low when the market was in a supply/demand deficit.



Through no great accomplishment on my part, aside from having a futures market background of almost 15 years at the time, it suddenly dawned on me that silver prices were dictated on the COMEX, to the point of price manipulation. Everything that has transpired since has only confirmed to me that silver prices are still manipulated on the COMEX.



That is not to say that there haven’t been many historical developments since 1985 in the silver market; just that none of those events do anything but confirm the ongoing silver manipulation. Not even an extreme price surge from $4 to $49 detracts from the manipulation premise; as how could any commodity jump that much with no big change in supply and demand if it wasn’t artificially priced too low to begin with?
http://www.silverseek.com/commentary/silver-conspiracy-13373




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Silver Up 10.3% YTD - Outperformance To Continue

Today we look at silver and why it is an important allocation in all portfolios
- Why Silver is in a Bull Market and How High Could it Go?
- Is Silver About Returns Or A Hedge Against Inflation & Systemic Risk?
- Silver: Very Small Global Supply
- Silver: Increasing Technological and Industrial Demand
- Silver: Medical Demand
- Silver’s Unique Properties
- Silver: Increasing Investment Demand
- Silver Undervalued Versus Gold
- Conclusion

Today’s AM fix was USD 1,336.50, EUR 981.78 and GBP 779.39 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,343.25, EUR 985.22 and GBP 784.61 per ounce.
Gold climbed $8.10 or 0.61% yesterday to $1,335.80/oz and silver rose $0.27 or 1.28% to $21.38/oz.
http://www.silverseek.com/article/silver-103-ytd-outperformance-continue-13361





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