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Gold/Mining/Energy : Silver prices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Fun-da-Mental#1 who wrote (5014)	5/4/2002 2:36:14 PM
From: Canuck Dave	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 8010

I don't have a link, but here's the gist. Digital photography has cut into silver usage in North America to a certain extent, but worldwide usage for photography is about flat due to pickups in Asia. Silver is also used in prints, which can be made from digital images. Certainly, as digital cameras come down in price, they will become more attractive to photographers all over the world, so they're probably a long term cap on silver usage for photographic purposes. No guarantees in this business, FM. I like silver for a lot of other reasons, but read all you can (there's LOTS of web sites with all kinds of opinion and fact) and make your own decision. Oh, and Caveat Emptor. (Edit) I just checked your posts and you're right up on the issues. What's your game? CD

To: Fun-da-Mental#1 who wrote (5014)	5/5/2002 3:40:53 PM
From: Alan Whirlwind	Respond to of 8010

90-95% of silver used in photography is recycled. Collodial silver will likely pick up the slack from photography from this point on. FDA has recently approved a collodial silver patent as safe and is in the process of approving several other surface cleansing and germ-killing products with silver as a key ingredient. I think this will pick up. In fact, given the usefulness of silver in this field, be glad there is extra silver around to throw into the mix. I don't think there is much recycle potential for these kinds of silver-based products either.