Karsten Schmidt on Nostr: Silver is not just a precious metal, it's also a major industrial material with more ...

Silver is not just a precious metal, it's also a major industrial material with more than half of the annual silver demand being industrial uses (electronics, solar, automotive, chemicals...). The Iran war has triggered supply chain disruptions thus making the market much more volatile and seemingly causing temporary shortages and changed priority allocations to more important sectors (photography is not exactly high priority in usage, nor in volume)