The Metal Tech Can't Quit: Silver, To Scale

In January 2026 silver broke a record that had stood since 1980 - then crashed. Underneath the frenzy, a quieter story: technology, and solar above all, quietly turned silver into an industrial metal, and the world has used more than it mined for five straight years. But the deficit didn't cause the spike - and telling the structural story apart from the speculative one is the whole point.