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Silver Sector Shrinking

- Sean Rakhimov - SilverStrategies

I beg to differ. You may not be familiar with the mining industry, but one of its particularities is the extraordinary amount of risk involved, and of capital needed.

Less than 1 project on 1500 become mines, that gives you an example of the size of the risk to find it. Then, and this is a huge difference with oil and gas, the daily management of replacing resources is just as risky.

Thus it is not return on capital investors are looking for, but the jackpot if they hit the gold mine. And countries should be happy with a simple and reasonable fee, because otherwise they will get nothing.

Of course, knowing how most of the countries operate, particularly in the southern hemisphere, they will let the miners create the mine (for, most of the time, a large fee called corruption), then, once it is in production, hassle them with regulations, taxes, and will end up by nationalizing it.

At which point they will try to manage it, and run it into the ground.

And considering "the fact that resources belong to the nation which permits miners to dig them out", well, it is not a fact. It is just the law of the country you live in, or the ideology you are familiar with. Many other possibilities exist, practically all of them better.

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