Total silver supply from all of these sources climbed to 1.048 billion ounces in 2012 from 1.039 billion the year before, according to the World Silver Survey 2013.
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Primary silver mine supply grew by 1% to 221.6 million ounces, accounting for 28% of global silver mine output.
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With new silver sources opened up in the west, the supply of silver increased but with demand steady, the price steadily fell.
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In effect, the silver certificates were fiat money differing from greenbacks only because the historic role of silver as money made it more acceptable to increase the money supply by buying silver rather than by openly issuing fiat money.
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Mine supply for silver is rising faster than for other metals, helped by an increase of by-product from gold-mining operations plus a number of major primary projects in recent years.
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However, the supply from government sales, silver scrap and producer hedging all fell.
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For silver prices to remain supported as the supply increases, it will be important for investment demand to fill any gap that otherwise might exist between output and fabrication demand, Newman said.
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The supply of each denomination depended on how much silver people took to the mint.
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Still, he looks for silver investment to again be strong enough to absorb any surplus in which mine and scrap supply exceeds fabrication demand, as was the case last year.
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Silver mine output is expected to grow by more than 6% this year, with recycled supply also on the increase.
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We may not have a silver bullet, but we do have in this country limitless sources of energy, a boundless supply of ingenuity, huge imagination, amazing young people like you -- (applause) -- all of which can put -- all of which we can put to work to develop this new energy source.
Broadly, instead of using simple supply and demand, it explains changes in the demand for one asset (a small silver coin, say) relative to another (a large coin) in terms of changes in the rate of return that the holder of the assets can expect from each.
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In a Boston Globe story, the man who was carjacked -- a 26-year-old Chinese entrepreneur identified only as Danny -- described his 90-minute ordeal, from when a man brandishing a silver handgun got into his Mercedes to when he ran for his life into a Mobil gas station's supply room.
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