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Precious Metal Facts:
- Historical Median price of a home relative to gold is 100 ounces [during a depression] to 500 ounces of gold [during a boom]. Average median has been 300 ounces of gold or roughly 555k USD.
- The average Gold/Silver Price Ratio during the 20th century was 47:1, yet today is 70:1. For perspective, the Gold/Silver Price Ratio was 10:1 in ancient times.
- There is an estimated 1,600,000 tonnes of silver and 171,300 tonnes of gold in circulation. This makes the "true" Physical Silver/Gold ratio 9.34.
- There are 32150.7 Troy ounces in a Ton. This means 51440 million ounces of silver have been extracted to date, this includes silver that was lost/processed due to various industrial demands.
- 51440M Silver ounces divided by 331M US citizens = 155 ounces available per US Citizen. Likewise globally 51440M/7800M people = 6.6 Ounces of silver available per human on earth.
- It costs miners $10.56 to mine and refine an ounce of silver, however existing silver mines are becoming increasingly exhausted by mid 2020s due to increasing demand.
- Silver has many applications in Medicine, Electronics, Solar panels, EV's, Jewelry and more.