With the severe bear market in the resource sector taking silver below $19
per ounce last week and this silver bear market getting very old in age, I think
this summer is a great opportunity to start taking some large positions in the
silver market.
The
Silver Supply and Demand Deficit
For
decades, the world has produced less silver than it has consumed.
This
supply deficit has always been met with scrap silver and government stock
piles. However, both these two resources for supply
have been shrinking.
Government
stock piles accounted for about 10% of the supply a decade ago;
in 2012, it dwindled down to 3%, and last year it had fallen all the way down
to just 1%. According to the USGS, U.S. government silver
inventory is ZERO!
Silver
scrap last year fell by 24%, this was the largest drop on
record.
Here
are the raw numbers for total demand vs. new mine supply for
2013.
Total
mine production (supply) was 819 million ounces, total demand was 1.1
billion ounces.
Now
supply actually did go up from silver mines, however, like all
mines, ore
grades are falling, making the metal itself more costly to produce.
All
Mines Peak
For
silver, if you look at the 15 leading silver mines, 7 of them
produced less
silver in 2013 than they did in 2012.
The
#1 producing silver mine in the world, owned by BHP Billiton,
produced
32.23 million ounces in 2012 and 29.09 million ounces in
2013.
Same thing for the #2 mine owned by Fresnillo, 26.38 million ounces in 2012
and 22.76 million ounces in 2013.
Looking
at Nevada, which is literally called the "Silver State,"
produced 25
million ounces in 1997, and last year only produced 7.4 million ounces!
Demand
Demand
as a whole grew 13% last year, mostly from investment silver. Silver
uses though are rising dramatically, one area we have covered in the past is
solar energy and its use of silver.
In
1999, silver's use in solar panels wasn't even reportable, by 2015,
we are
looking at a solid 100 million ounces going to just this
industry.
China
alone consumed 35 million ounces of silver for solar demand, compare
that to 2005 when China used less than a million ounces.
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