I see no way that the use of 3,000 oz of silver by one segment of industry 
would have any effect
on price at all.  That is about $15,000 worth, less than 1% of what is traded 
every day.  And
the photograpy industry uses thousands of times this much silver.

Marshall

Gaston wrote:

>  There are interesting articles from the address provided below.
>  I have just read a couple, but there are others that look good also.
>
>  Thanks "Bitbucket13" for providing this address.
>
> This institute must be subsidized somehow to make the research
> and I wonder if they would not be able to provide us with some
> answers that we are all looking for instead of doing our own research...
>
>  The CS experts may have some questions for them.
>
>  In one of the articles, it is estimated that the price of silver will
> almost triple by the year 2002... because of the demand.
> I know that this is only an estimate, but for people that have money, wouldn't
> it be a good time to buy some silver ?
>
>  
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  "Estimates of Silver Use as a Biocide (Other than for Water Treatment)
>  By Geographic Area
>  (In Thousands of Troy Ounces)
>
>  Year                            2000         2002         2004           2006
>  Japan                             440           465           490            
>  520
>  Europe                               2           100           450           
>   920
>  North American                 3           600         1000           1100
>  Rest of World                    0             20           200             
> 400
>  
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  Totals                            445          1200         2140           
> 2940 "
>  
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>  Gaston
>
>
>  ==================================================
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: "Bitbucket13" <bitbucke...@yahoo.com.au>
>  To: <silver-list@eskimo.com>
>  Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 11:21 PM
>  Subject: CS>News articles on BIOCIDE
>
>
>  I found this site devoted to silver including buying and selling.
>
>  Has some nice articles on demands for Silver in the near future and
>  rfesearch on Biocides
>
>  http://www.silverinstitute.org/newsdesk.html
>
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