Silber Produktion 2006

    Explorationsbudgets


    Zu erwähnen wäre noch, dass die "Worlwide Nonferrous Exploration Budgets" für 2006 mit USD 7.1 billion geschätzt werden (2005 USD 5.1 billion) und die Ausgaben für "late-stage exploration" in den beiden letzten Jahren die Ausgaben für "grassroots exploration"
    übersteigen. Bedingt durch die hohen Metallpreise sind die Explorer bemüht, ihre Projekte in Produktion zu bringen. Dies betrifft Gold, Silber und Basismetalle.


    Grüsse - Austrian

    Danke, sehr interessant,
    würde mir ja wünschen, dass das ungefähr stimmt-und nicht hier wieder jemand die Wahrheit verbogen hat :D
    Für mich bleibt aber immer noch Chinas Silberproduktion als große Ungewissheit. Da gabs ja neulich schon mal so ne abstruse Zahl von denen...

    Na nichts zu 2006, dafür was nostalgisches von 1967, als das Ende des Silbergeldes beschlossen wurde.


    Das Warum ist aus dem Artikel des Time Magazins von 1967 ersichtlich, als der Silberpreis von $1.27 auf $ 1.67 stieg. :D


    Gruss


    Silver Looks Brighter
    Posted Friday, Jun 2, 1967


    For years, the U.S. Government has been working out ways and means of dealing with the probability that someday the Treasury would run out of silver. Despite that commendable foresight, Treasury was taken by surprise when the crisis arrived. Confronted by a sudden buying rush that threatened to wipe out its dwindling stockpile, the Treasury barely had time to put its plans into action. Sales of its silver for export were abruptly halted; domestic sales were limited to "legitimate industrial users," and the export or melting of silver coins was forbidden.* "We knew we'd get out of the silver business sooner or later," explains Assistant Treasury Secretary Robert Wallace, "but we didn't know it would be so soon."


    That emergency action two weeks ago was aimed at forestalling a disruptive disappearance of the nation's remaining silver coinage before it could be fully replaced by coins of copper and nickel. Silver speculators, however, took the curbs as a signal that by year's end, when the Treasury expects to have sufficient "clad" coins available, it will stop holding down the domestic price of silver by selling it for $1.29 per oz. Next day, traders on Manhattan's Commodity Exchange bid up the price of silver to $1.67 per oz. Though the price of the metal for immediate delivery eased to $1.5085 by the end of last week, silver for May 1968 delivery rose as high as $1.60 before closing at $1.56.


    Soaring Appetite. Abrupt as it was, the embargo was only the latest in a series of Treasury moves to cope with the soaring world appetite for silver. Because of increasing sales of sterling silverware and photographic film (in which silver halides are the light-sensitive ingredient) plus expanding use in electronics and aerospace, the demand for industrial silver jumped 91% (to 150 million oz.) last year in the U.S. Altogether, the free world consumed 464 million oz. of silver last year while mining less than half that amount. In 1963, to help balance supply and demand, the Government stopped issuing $1 bills redeemable in silver. Two years later it minted the first of its cupronickel dimes and quarters; last year it cut the silver content of newly issued half dollars from 90% to 40%.


    Still, the Treasury's once vast hoard of the metal shrank by mid-May to a mere 485 million oz. (a quarter of its 1960 size) as the Government was forced to stick to its policy of selling silver at a low-pegged price. For if the price of silver rises above $1.40 per oz., it becomes theoretically profitable to melt silver dimes, quarters and pre-1966 half dollars for their metallic content.


    To take the U.S. completely off the silver standard, Congress is speeding action on a bill that will allow the Treasury (after a one-year wait) to stop redeeming in silver the $553 million of old silver certificate bills that are still in circulation or hoarded away. That action would free 430 million oz. of Treasury silver now frozen by law as backing for the currency. Even so, the Wall Street brokerage firm of Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis recently predicted that the Treasury will run out of silver by mid-1968 (except for a strategic reserve).


    Frenzied Rush. In Idaho's Coeur d'Alene mining country, source of nearly half the nation's silver, that possibility has helped fire up a frenzied rush to buy land, stake new claims and expand prospecting. "Everybody around here is participating," said R. J. Bruning, editor-publisher of the Northern Idaho Press, who is also president of two small mining firms. "We're all muckers—and we all own mining stocks." Many big mining companies have doubled their exploration budgets and Hecla Mining, the country's largest silver producer, is gambling $2,500,000 on deepening a single mine to 9,100 ft. "We're more optimistic than ever about the future of silver," said Hecla Chairman L. J. Randall. The same feeling spread to the New York Stock Exchange, where silver shares climbed rapidly. In the past fortnight, Hecla gained 8 points to 55¾, Bunker Hill 6¾ points to 36\|, Sunshine Mining 3½ points to 32½. In short, investors seem to be betting that the price of silver will top $2 per oz.—a few even talk of $3 per oz.—once the U.S. stockpile is exhausted.

    Es ist noch kein Verschwörungstheoretiker vom Himmel gefallen.
    - Altes Sprichwort, neu übersetzt


    Sehr interessant zu lesen. Die US-Treasury hat ja nun schon lange kein Silber mehr. Einige andere Länder haben seitdem jedoch noch enthortet. Das geht nun auch zu Ende. Gut möglich, dass wir 40 Jahre nach dieser Meldung 2007 wieder eine ähnliche sehen werden. Nur diesmal nicht US-bezogen, sondern WELTWEIT, wenn es keine Bestände "williger" Notenbanken mehr zum Enthorten gibt. Der Sprung am Silbermarkt wird dann auch nicht mit gut +30% enden (s.o.), sondern ganz andere Größenordnungen annehmen!

    Erst wenn die letzte Bank pleite, der letzte Staat ruiniert, die letzte Währung wertlos geworden ist, werdet Ihr merken, dass man Gold nicht drucken kann.

    Zitat


    and the export or melting of silver coins was forbidden.


    Ein Vorgeschmack darauf, was mit Besitzern von Silberzehnern passieren wird.
    Die duerfen sie dann wohl offiziell nur noch zum Nennwert in Neusilbermuenzen oder Papier eintauschen. Das duerfte dann auch die Nutzung im Krisenfall "beim Baecker" zum Silberwert ausschliessen, da der bestimmt keine Lust hat, fuer die Annahme von Silberzehnern oder sonstigem Silber (ausser natuerlich zum Nennwert, da kriegt man dann aber hoechstens die auf den Boden gefallenen Kruemel) standrechtlich erschossen zu werden.

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