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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SPP Ottawa, post: 1631645, member: 39508&quot;]Ironically, you can only plant corn a few times successfully, before you require other crustal elements, like potassium and magnesium. That is part of the reason why Potash has been a very hot commodity in the past couple of years.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is an interesting thread.</p><p><br /></p><p>Trust me, I see gold and other metals as crustal elements - that is my day job. But, gold and silver are not really scarce elements on earth, certainly nowhere as scarce as some rare earth elements or metals like platinum - and that is only at the surface of the earth where we can access them - who knows what the precious metal content is beyond the lithosphere. Gold is certainly one of the most efficient examples of recycling in human history. Very little of what is mined, milled and refined, is ever wasted. Because we deem silver and gold as &quot;precious&quot;, we create the demand and desire of those metals to be well worth beyond what they should be. However, that won&#039;t change, because those metals are also beautiful, and it is human nature to desire them, hoard them, and place great value in them...</p><p><br /></p><p>For me, there is very little appeal in bullion rounds or ingots - but strike a beautiful coin in that same material, and I&#039;ll love it... my world is not driven by the desire to get rich, it is driven by the desire to be happy....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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