Those are counted in thousands -- so year one is 445,000 troy ounces in Japan. What with beginning to use silver instead of chlorine for pools, and anti-biotics making ever more resistent strains, a change is coming that could be big!
-----Original Message----- From: Marshall Dudley [mailto:mdud...@execonn.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 10:06 AM To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: CS>News articles on BIOCIDE 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 > > -- > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > > To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: > silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com -or- silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com > with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. > > To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com> > >