Archives for May, 2020
Although all stocks listed below do host silver, it is rarely the principle metal. In the main the stocks are base metal plays with accessory silver. One of the exceptions is SVL with its Bowdens project. It has a reserve of 29.9Mt at 69g/t silver and a resource of 128Mt…
In Egypt, in 2700BC, the gold silver ratio was 9. That is, 1oz of gold would buy 9oz of silver. The ratio the fluctuated in a narrow band (typically 10 to 14) for the next 4,400 years. It wasn’t until around 1700AD that the ratio began to rise. It rose…
Since the end of January there have been 4.3m coronavirus cases and 292k deaths. That is a period of a little more than 3 months. The world’s population is about 7.6 billion, 4.3m cases worldwide is about 0.06% of that population. During this coronavirus period total deaths worldwide have been…
When the money printing and handouts commenced with the Covid-19 lockdown, there were immediate fears of inflation or even hyperinflation. The thought was that with so much more money chasing the same goods, prices would inevitably rise. While some items, such as some food, did show minor rises, in the…