Precious Metals

BREAKING NEWS: Mexico’s Silver Production Declined Over Past Two Years

In a surprising update, the world largest silver producer actually experienced a decline in silver mine supply over the past two years.  This is quite remarkable as several analysts and official sources reported or perceived that Mexico continued to shown an increase in silver production.  I wrote about this in…

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U.S. Silver Production Drops Significantly Again In October… Has Peak Silver Arrived?

After U.S. silver production declined nearly 20% in September (y.o.y), this continued again in October.  According to the USGS Silver Mineral Industry Survey, silver production in the U.S. fell to 84.6 metric tons (mt) in October compared to 103 mt during the same month in 2014. As we can see…

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