- Peak Silver – Supply deficits continue meaning
higher prices
- May have experienced a peak in world silver
production
- Global silver market suffered another large net
supply deficit in 2016
- Peak silver likely as global silver production
will decline to 887 million oz (Moz), down from 893 Moz in 2015
“While forecasted global silver production for 2016 is down only
slightly versus last year, GFMS also stated this in their report:
We estimate that mine supply peaked in 2015 and will trend lower in
the foreseeable future.
Declining total supply is expected to be a key driver of annual deficits
in the silver market going forward.
I will get to the annual silver deficits in a minute, but let’s look at
their world silver mine supply by region:
“What is interesting here, is that GFMS forecasts the number one
silver producer, Mexico, to be down in 2016 by more than 6 Moz. Last
year, I forecasted that global silver production would likely be lower in
2015. I was going by data by the “World Metals Statistics.”
However, Mexico’s INEGI (government agency) considerably revised their
figures higher for 2015. While I have seen revisions take place, the
revisions by Mexico’s INEGI for 2015 were quite substantial.
Regardless, GFMS does a pretty good job with the silver mine supply
data. The important take-away here is that the trend of global silver
production will likely be lower going forward.”
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