* Silver is now used widely in many industries as an essential and growing part of new and essential products/operations. Used in small amounts albeit, but in millions of items in amounts so small that recovery is totally unfinancial and therefore not attempted. Such usage is growing every year ; and
* Silver, in very significant amounts, serves in its longstanding and world-wide role as jewelry ; and
* Silver is seen as 'the poor man's gold' and is widely held as a store of wealth and an investment.
More silver is now being used for these purposes than is being produced every year.
if all the above is true - and it is - the following can not be true in an honest and open market !
