Currently Paper Gold is selling @ over 100 X amount mined for the year, and Silver is worse at north of 400 X the amount mined.
I'm not going to research gold in depth for this article, but Silver mining produces around 1B Troy Ounces a year currently so its about $30 B a year in new silver worldwide, a very small amount of Gross World Product of 100T, but with paper trading over 400 they turn it into a $12T churn.
Most silver is mined as a Byproduct of other mining, Gold ,Aluminum, Copper, and other . Several reports that China is buying up silver pre-refining and that isn't reported in the 1 B ounces. Will do research and confirm or deny with sauce.
Silver is the most conductive elemental metal and that is it's usefulness in Electronics, Batteries, Solar Panels. Without the conductivity of the silver where needed, all of the above would be unpractical in regards to power transfer efficiency. Over Demand for silver has been the case for a few years, but the amount of silver stockpiled up by industries, central banks, and bullion collectors, etc... Is massive.Silver is also antimicrobial and used in internal and external medicines
Another bright spot will be when silver is legal tender and in common use. A downside is lesser demand because Meh solar, and electric cars suck.
Gold @ 100 Paper per actual oz mined, which is crazy numbers high too. Gold is also used in electronics, but a lot more sparingly, its purpose is where staying shiny and untarnished matters like CPU and connector pins. They don't have to be solid because bost electricity travels along the surface of the wire. Gold is used in dentistry, but its not that big of market. Some estimates put gold at over 50% in Jewelry, but I think that is misleading. All the Central Banks are sucking it up and have been since their inception.
Gold is more steady in % of ups and downs, but silver is way more useful, Link shows ratio of mined/ price etc. of gold and silver From link:
Geologists estimate that there are approximately 19 ounces of silver for every ounce of gold in the earth’s crust, with a ratio of approximately 11.2 ounces of silver to each ounce of gold that has ever been mined. Interestingly, the silver-gold ratio in ancient Egypt was 1:1.
Current Gold silver ratio is about 85, so gold is way over valued compared to scarcity and silver's usefulness.
The 1 Billion Oz may include recycled...
I stacked a little to keep myself from having a zeroed out bank account a year ago in May, I watch a lot Mining and stacking stuff. I'm not formally educated except a years Electronics Vocational Cert. and about 37 College credits towards Programming and. Networking.
Yankee Stacking is a good Channel, his LCS owner is based, but both are making bank. So I enjoy the content, but am not interested in over paying, and I want to get as much as possible selling. Yankee makes money from doing live streams where he gives away prizes via online superchats A few automatically, the rest at 1 Oz silver Item or coin per 100 Superchat . YouTube gets a cut, but Silver is just about 28.50 so he does ok.
Silver Dragons is another good channel, and his LCS gives out prices. Three different dealers an old guy, middle aged guy, and a young guy. A better and just as informative show.
Both these guys do collaborations. Both do Online Bullion tours of the big players, have interesting guests etc...
Yankee staking is good,I used to watch him all the time.
The 800moz is mined, so recycling would add to that.
Bald guy money also has decent content and analytical stuff that is easy to grasp.
Yeah, I learned a lot from him, an Expat, but he researches very well.