The fact that such big hoards of silver have disappeared means we are fast approaching a time when no more silver is available to industry at today's low prices. If the silver is no longer there to get because the strong demand has used it all up, the price must rise to ration the supply and alter the voracious demand. The more you analyze silver, the tighter the supply situation looks. It's bullish beyond our ability to grasp the total picture of this booming demand and thinning supply. On top of all this vanishing silver sits the biggest short sale of any commodity ever in relationship to its supply.
Silver is literally a time bomb waiting to go off.
Never in the lifetimes of your children, or your children's grandchildren, will the world be able to restore the accumulated inventories of the past 5000 years which have been consumed. We can't accumulate one years' or one days' inventory while we are running a deficit. We need a surplus of current production over current consumption to create any increase in inventories at all. This is what I am trying to get you to see clearly, how it will be impossible for silver inventories to ever grow again. Sure, there will be price spikes coming that will take your breath away, and those price spikes will impact demand and production, and will shake out the remaining inventory holdings.