Roman soldiers kept silver coins in their water bags to keep it “fresh.” What they didn’t know, but apparently had an inkling, was that silver is a potent anti-bacterial/anti-viral.
I read somewhere, and I’m going to assume this group may touch on it in their “investment” part, but most silver is completely depleted/destroyed in many of its uses. Which means nothing left to recycle unlike many other metals.
Someone here, a year or more ago (could be three, or five, who knows) posted a chart/link showing that worldwide easy to recover from the ground silver would be completely gone within a couple decades anyway. And that was not considering the demand from solar.
Personally, I love silver. It has positive healing properties, it is accessible to the masses, it is not revered and fought over like gold and very unlike gold, has not been used to show us serfs whom owns us. The King’s crown and President’s watch is sterling people, it is gold.
Thanks for this, great info and easy to digest charts!
Westcoaster
July 10, 2015 4:58 pm
SILVER! It’s not just for the Lone Ranger anymore!
Keep stackin’ my friends.
Billy
July 10, 2015 9:27 pm
For those of you with allergies or don’t like silver because it tarnishes, you all should look into argentium…
Discovered it a few years ago. It’s still “sterling” since that designator is used to describe the percentage of silver, not the other metals it’s alloyed with. Argentium is alloyed with germanium and does not tarnish. It’s still 92.5% silver, so it still has the sterling hallmarks.
Pretty cool stuff.
IndenturedServant
July 10, 2015 10:54 pm
TE, the silver is not depleted or destroyed. With many things like iCrap, TV’s and such it is used in very tiny amounts……like fractions of a gram per device. It’s not damaged or changed in any way but the energy required to recover it from each device is simply more costly that what could ever be recovered.
It probably won’t happen in my lifetime but one day silver will be rare enough that it is declared “strategic” and illegal to own.
Roman soldiers kept silver coins in their water bags to keep it “fresh.” What they didn’t know, but apparently had an inkling, was that silver is a potent anti-bacterial/anti-viral.
I read somewhere, and I’m going to assume this group may touch on it in their “investment” part, but most silver is completely depleted/destroyed in many of its uses. Which means nothing left to recycle unlike many other metals.
Someone here, a year or more ago (could be three, or five, who knows) posted a chart/link showing that worldwide easy to recover from the ground silver would be completely gone within a couple decades anyway. And that was not considering the demand from solar.
Personally, I love silver. It has positive healing properties, it is accessible to the masses, it is not revered and fought over like gold and very unlike gold, has not been used to show us serfs whom owns us. The King’s crown and President’s watch is sterling people, it is gold.
Thanks for this, great info and easy to digest charts!
SILVER! It’s not just for the Lone Ranger anymore!
Keep stackin’ my friends.
For those of you with allergies or don’t like silver because it tarnishes, you all should look into argentium…
Discovered it a few years ago. It’s still “sterling” since that designator is used to describe the percentage of silver, not the other metals it’s alloyed with. Argentium is alloyed with germanium and does not tarnish. It’s still 92.5% silver, so it still has the sterling hallmarks.
Pretty cool stuff.
TE, the silver is not depleted or destroyed. With many things like iCrap, TV’s and such it is used in very tiny amounts……like fractions of a gram per device. It’s not damaged or changed in any way but the energy required to recover it from each device is simply more costly that what could ever be recovered.
It probably won’t happen in my lifetime but one day silver will be rare enough that it is declared “strategic” and illegal to own.