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<p>[QUOTE="jjack, post: 1386827, member: 33596"]1. There still plenty of silver left in the ground (production of silver has kept pace with increase in demand). Also because silver is industrial metal there in lies silver's biggest problem, lets say things get worse and US defaults or faces depression like situation resulting in a global economic slow down. Suppliers will cut off their orders and start selling off their stockpiles, we could easily see a scenario were Silver prices be stagnating while Gold could be soaring due to currency devaluation.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. Silver is mined along with other base metals currently costs about $6-8 dollars to mine it. Yes oil prices will increase mining costs but i don't think the correlation is 1:1 since large portion of the $$ also goes to heavy equipment, taxes and labor.</p><p><br /></p><p>3. Hard to say it really depends on which segment is impacting Silvers' price point, as of right know it is PM because it raising as a result of being cheaper investment alt to gold. </p><p><br /></p><p>4. Not sure what Chinese inflation has to do with Silver prices?</p><p><br /></p><p>5. I guess they mean historically gold coins were used as currency not silver.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="jjack, post: 1386827, member: 33596"]1. There still plenty of silver left in the ground (production of silver has kept pace with increase in demand). Also because silver is industrial metal there in lies silver's biggest problem, lets say things get worse and US defaults or faces depression like situation resulting in a global economic slow down. Suppliers will cut off their orders and start selling off their stockpiles, we could easily see a scenario were Silver prices be stagnating while Gold could be soaring due to currency devaluation. 2. Silver is mined along with other base metals currently costs about $6-8 dollars to mine it. Yes oil prices will increase mining costs but i don't think the correlation is 1:1 since large portion of the $$ also goes to heavy equipment, taxes and labor. 3. Hard to say it really depends on which segment is impacting Silvers' price point, as of right know it is PM because it raising as a result of being cheaper investment alt to gold. 4. Not sure what Chinese inflation has to do with Silver prices? 5. I guess they mean historically gold coins were used as currency not silver.[/QUOTE]
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