Investors and the Question on Silver Inventories

In the past some of the issues that went on when silver investing was done was that there were not enough reliable statistics about supply and demand. Thankfully this is something that has been corrected due to certain accurate publications that have come out such as the World Silver Survey, which comes out on an annual basis and is produced by the Silver Institute of Washington, D. C. This is a worldwide association that is made up of silver fabricators, manufacturers and miners.  

On the other hand the question arises as to what the complete inventories of existing inventories of silver that are available might be from all new and older sources. There are a great deal of bearish observations that are made but that do not necessarily have meticulous validation and support that say there are around one billion ounces of above ground silver at access and that meets up with the demand. Whatever the case, this guess has been able to keep the prices of silver lower than they would be in another case.

It has been observed by the Silver Institute that the one billion ounce figure was taken from estimates of determined surpluses between 1979 and 1990. 

During the time the price went up per ounce from $5 to $50 in 1979 to 1980, it was supposed that all accessible supplies would have been sold at the raised price, and that the stocks that had not been sold were not going to be price sensitive. In the same way, whet the price per ounce went down a ninety percent during the following ten years, no main dumping happened, and this is another display of illiquid assets of silver. 

The current 1970 to 1990 demand and supply balance came out to around 1.1 billion ounces, that was brought down to around 800 million at the ending of 1993, and was equal to a decrease of eight percent per year.

There are currently many different factors that include available supply seem to tell us that there is indeed going to be a slow and long term increase in the prices of silver.

There are a lot of expert investors that look at silver as a conventional long-term purchase and that this is a purchase that has important opportunities in the years to come.  

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