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Graphic on the size of silver

WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
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It may have been posted before, but this is a pretty neat graphic on the physical mass / size of various amounts of silver, from 5 grams to 1000 tonnes.

http://demonocracy.info/infographics/world/silver/silver.html

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  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,823 ✭✭✭✭✭

    puts things in perspective.

    "Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey

  • Jinx86Jinx86 Posts: 3,710 ✭✭✭✭✭

    What shocks me is the "Silver Lost throughout History". Is the meant as unsalvageable scrap from industrial use, not worth the cost to reclaim type of stuff?

  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @derryb said:
    puts things in perspective.

    So does the $31.10 price in that graphic.
    :D

  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If one started acquiring one ounce of silver per week at age 18, by the time they retired at 65, they would have a bad back.

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Great graphics.... very interesting. Lost silver, I assume (dangerous, I know) means industrial use for sure, maybe shipwrecks (?), lost coinage... maybe more. Since elements are never really lost, it really should be 'on hold until recovery'. Cheers, RickO

  • tneigtneig Posts: 1,505 ✭✭✭

    thanks

    COA
  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,823 ✭✭✭✭✭

    non digital photography resulted in the loss of a lot of silver. Even with silver recovery systems photographic negatives consumed loads of silver.

    "Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey

  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭

    There is a corresponding graphic for gold, too:
    http://demonocracy.info/infographics/world/gold/gold.html

    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • pmacpmac Posts: 3,189 ✭✭✭

    @Jinx86 said:
    What shocks me is the "Silver Lost throughout History". Is the meant as unsalvageable scrap from industrial use, not worth the cost to reclaim type of stuff?

    What derryb said and also x-rays films used silver, although much of this has been recovered.

    Paul
  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 13,781 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 28, 2016 8:40AM

    Great visualization :+1:

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  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,190 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thanks for posting that. Very interesting!

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