The price of silver has historically been volatile, as it can fluctuate between the demands of industrial users and investors use the precious metal as a store of value. Sometimes this can cause wide range of valuations in the market, creating volatility. Overall silver producers are slow to react to the higher levels of demand, therefore, low levels of supply will ensure the price of silver did not collapse due to over-production, etc. nlike gold that is hoarded, silver is the main use for industrial applications (approximately 40% of demand), so most of the silver used in this capacity is driven by the consumer or end consumed during the manufacturing process. Less than 1% of silver was recycled and reused, so the supply is necessary to continue to fulfill the demands of industrial silver. Although the new silver mines and was brought to the marketplace – an important part of it ends up in landfills. This is only for precious metals, and very unlike gold, which is accumulated (ie, used for jewelry or as storage of wealth, not many industrial applications;) – ie the majority of gold mines provided throughout our history is still in existence, therefore, the supply continues to build itself as opposed to silver. Read the rest of this entry »