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To: Follies who wrote (76181)	3/6/2001 5:02:50 PM
From: KeepItSimple	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

>and the process of selecting the round ones destroys the non-round ones. are you seriously trying to say that a manufacturing process that has 9,999 bad metal widgets for each perfect widget would not reclaim that silver and melt it down for the next batch? last time i checked, you can't "destroy" any basic element. i know a guy who used to work at a big photolab that contracted out to drug stores for 1 day prints and those guys produced 1 pound blocks of silver every week that they had melted down into a bar.

To: Follies who wrote (76181)	3/6/2001 5:11:13 PM
From: yard_man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

I thought all atoms of any element were the same unless u are talking different isotopes and I would assume that most silver (if there are different isotopes) would be predominantly just one isotope. What are you talking about?

To: Follies who wrote (76181)	3/6/2001 5:48:00 PM
From: pater tenebrarum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

thanks for this info...seems to me that may become a great counterweight to the eventual decline in photographic demand...as i have repeatedly mentioned, i believe silver will be subject to a palladium-style renaissance. above ground inventories have dwindled to 7 decade lows, and even lower by some accounts. since the market is short via leasing we could be in for an unruly price explosion once the stocks are finished. COMEX stocks have fallen by 70% over the past 5 years, and i have heard that a recent buyer of 600 contracts is still waiting for delivery, in spite of over 8K contracts in deliveries officially having been settled. this looks very suspicious to me...it may well be that the deliveries are smoke-and-mirror back and forth trading of the same inventory to keep up appearances.