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>>18653825
>Do you know how hard that demand evaporated as soon as digital photography took of?
nah but as the world has gotten more digitized I don't imagine the industrial use for a conductor like silver has disappeared. We've gotten microchips in EVERYTHING now, so plenty of silver is still used.

Silver is used in making lots of wires, coatings, etc. I'd like to see the price of silver charted against manufacturing recessions instead of gold. Could be we're seeing silver dethroned completely as a precious metal.

Don't @ me about gold's use in plating and electronics, gold's got constant demand from central banks, though even that may wane if we get a bonafide global depression.

I wonder how the price has changed as medical imaging shifted away from film and towards digital imaging.