Biggest Silver Supply Losers For 2015

As global financial and economic systems continue to disintegrate, this will put more stress on the silver market. Why? Because elevated physical silver investment demand will likely exceed available silver supply in the future. Even though physical silver investment demand has fallen off since the huge spike starting in June, market conditions have impacted supply in a negative way.
According to the most recently released data, three of the top five silver producing countries are showing large declines in production compared to the same period last year. When I researched the mine supply figures, I came up with some conflicting data. For some strange reason, my data showed a decline in Mexican silver production, while figures from another source stated an increase.
I wrote the organization responsible for providing silver production figures to the Chile Copper Commission. You see, the Chile Copper Commission (Cochilco.cl) provides global production data on many metals. They use data from World Metal Statistics.
Here is a snapshot of their monthly world silver production update:

This post was published at SRSrocco Report on November 10, 2015.