Sentence examples for silver supply from inspiring English sources

Buying up around a third of the world's silver supply, they pushed its price up from a low of $1.26 in 1971 to nearly $50 in 1980 ($140 in today's prices).

Because of the relative scarcity of silver, Mr. Köhler estimates that demand for an e-textile product on the mass market could eventually require 12 percent of the global silver supply.

There are only 23 pure silver mines operating around the world, and most of the silver supply comes as a byproduct from mines mainly engaged in digging for lead, zinc and copper.

(See "Gold Is Just Getting Going").. Strong prices don't automatically mean strong fundamentals, Cooper warned, pointing to modest growth expectations for the overall silver supply although investment demand for silver has been strong, absorbing some of the market surplus and mitigating lower fabrication.

controlled over half of the world's silver supply.

Peruvian miners were on strike, rendering the world's silver supply suddenly short of demand.

From the 1560s until 1815, a fleet of Spanish galleons made an annual epic voyage from the Mexican port of Acapulco to Manila in the Philippines, carrying silver and supplies and returning with Chinese silks and porcelain that were snapped up by the wealthy in colonial Mexico and Peru.

(This works especially well when the silver bullets are supplied by well-connected industries, social groups or government organisations).

The largest opposite surfaces of the sample were covered with a silver paste (SPI Supplies).

While demand for silver still outstrips new supply from the mines, there is plenty of available existing supply, and industries that use silver — photographic supplies for example — aren't growing that fast.

Many early Americans, like Benjamin Franklin, recognized the pressing need for paper money as a medium of exchange and a store of value in a world where specie like that made of gold and silver was in short supply.