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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blaubart, post: 2013519, member: 37498&quot;]Indeed.&nbsp; &quot;By accident&quot; might be a little misleading, but yes, it&#039;s not usually the primary metal being mined, it&#039;s usually considered a byproduct.&nbsp; However, silver doesn&#039;t just &quot;appear&quot; as nuggets in these mining operations.&nbsp; It must be chemically extracted from the ore and refined and there are expenses associated with those processes.</p><p><br /></p><p>When the price of silver drops too low, copper mines, especially those with lower silver yields, will skip those processes and just dump the ore after the copper has been extracted.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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