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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tommybee, post: 912845, member: 24999&quot;]Patience, Orenthal. Patience.&nbsp; Copper and nickel are down.&nbsp; They are industrial metals.&nbsp; Once the economy picks up industrial metal value will increase.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This is why I love silver.&nbsp; It is also an industrial metal.&nbsp; However, it is also a precious metal.&nbsp; If the economy booms silver should increase in value.&nbsp; If the economy tanks silver should go up in value.</p><p><br /></p><p>Silver is in everything, cell phones, computers, tv remotes, solar panels, medical instruments, mirrors, etc.&nbsp; There is so little silver in most of these items that they are just discarded.&nbsp; It isn&#039;t cost effective to recover the silver.&nbsp; 90% of all the gold ever mined is still available.&nbsp; Not so with silver.&nbsp; In fact, there is more above ground gold than silver right now.&nbsp; I know that they can always mine more, but keep in mind that silver is generally found as an impurity in other metals..like gold and copper.&nbsp; The Comstock Load was an aberration.</p><p><br /></p><p>I still can&#039;t believe you can buy silver for under $20 bucks an ounce.&nbsp; I try to buy 60 oz a month.&nbsp; Could I lose my shirt?&nbsp; Yes.&nbsp; Silver is a small and volatile market.&nbsp; However, gold is at an all time high right now.&nbsp; Everything I watch the news there is a commerical trying to sell me gold.&nbsp; Some of the high price of gold must be a bubble.&nbsp; People are getting the hard sell and they are scared.&nbsp; Gold may go up, but unless the world&#039;s economy completely crashes..it must come down.&nbsp; I&#039;m hoping that silver rises to meet gold somewhere in the middle...near the historic 16 to ratio.&nbsp; That may not happen, though.&nbsp; Silver&#039;s history and future will be subject to much political manipulation.</p><p><br /></p><p>Think about the overhead those gold selling companies have when they are running ads on television....guess who they pass high cost of marketing on to....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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