>>12035156Gold prospector here.
I read that in just one day, the world consumes 16x the production rate of silver. Most of this has high consumption value in flat screen televisions and all smartphones and solar panels (the new generation of phones and solar panels use much more sliver that previous generations). Silver has medicinal users and is one of the few materials that are naturally antibiotic.
Silver was once valued higher than gold. All of the world's silver deposits are known (unlike gold) but silver is considered a "surface metal" and it's usually only associated with surface deposits.
Silver has over 36,000 uses and applications. From medical to electronic. Gold has around 2,300 - including medical and electronic. Silver is more useful and essential.
SILVER the first metal predicted to go "extinct" on the periodic table. The USGS predicted this could happen as soon as 2020. If you ever wanted to short squeeze a metal, it would be silver and it would be now. It's presently ridiculously undervalued compared to gold (which is also undervalued and suppressed). It's affordable and unlikely to drop further than where it sits at the moment.
* If you'd invested $X in silver bullion back in 2005, by 2012 you'd have made more money from Silver investments than if you'd put the same amount of money into gold bullion.
