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not much critical thinking required these days......slow and easy....
Love shorter practical swords ( wakisashi) cycling and compound bows.

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@silvertrade so what is the unencumbered registered stock balance?

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comex inventory level, after all teh notices is abt 15Moz?

withdrawal rate is abt 2Moz each trading day. UNless countr measures are instituted, teh JIT delivery for silver is over! all direct offtake from teh mines then

if the maths is correct within 8 days.. will be empty wch comex will try to prevent..

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@elonmusk no silver , no chips. UNless silver stockpile or supply chain is secured.. Tera fab cant be executed at teh visioned scale.

"this is no good"

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silver.. project vault after 4 months still at getting up stage.. talk adn talk. Stockpile still Zero

Banksters clobberiing silver price adn yet talk of mineral floor price etc. Other countries are onto Mineral sovereignty

cld Terafab be just a pipe dream as elon has not secured his Silver?,

Without silver..no silver no chips.. no Nvdia chips not HBMs.. seriously??

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so far stage 1.. negotiation and setting it up.

lacks urgency; 52 countries involved, DOD zero stockpile, low munitions level, moved some munitions for the iran conflict adn cant be in any sustained conflict and not to mention over 2 fronts..

btw COmex Registered inventory abt 26Moz.. how long can it last? Soon will be cash settlement. cant let it be empty.. INdustrials can get their JIT silver from comex! From the mines direct from Mexico, Canada adn Peru? they hv not been treated as allies! where is it going to come from??

will silver shortage.. Tera Fab is just a dream?

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Bond auction this week 10 and 30yrs tenure.
Primary banks hv to "swallow" abt 15-20 % of untaken/unsold bonds.. need to raise cash due to poor response as perhaps a "silent boycott" to buying the bonds pressures up the interest rate wch in turn affects existing bonds.. esp the 10 adn 30 yrs wch in turn affects their capital adequacy ratio adn thus need to raise cash all the time!!.. sell whatever that is profitable.

too many IPOs sucking cash and makes the switch to the new IPOs

Higher interest rate not attractive for metals but if mkt sense a debasement of fiat money or financial repression.. a diff opposite story!

btw, no t enough silver for the Tera FAb, all teh lovely ai chips required adn with DOD stockpile zero, Project vault still in Negotiation stage.. adn banksters clobbering it , COmex inventory abt 26M oz.. the onoy question is how long can be clobbering continue before Comex is empty or has to implement cash settlement (FM) for its existence?

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incersae need for USD

a) USA needs to sell more bonds (if there are buyers) for tehir deficit adn Iran war

b) ROW.. needs more USD eg japan and korea asking for 30B a month currency swap. US SDR i balance s abt 40B only. Looks like USA adn JApan will both print at teh same time

c) with inflation backdrop and debasement of currency. metals shld move

d)Silent boycott of US bonds. PLus they too need to sell teh bonds to prop their respective economy

Eventually, Hecla will be divorced from COmex price. their financials are structually very sound, low cost, average selling price last qtr is above comex as offtakes adn not selling to comexl solid FCF adn to be a sovereign utility?

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trump needs a win as he stared a war..otherwise for nothing...also to feed his ego.. art of the dreal, strongman image

say in 6 weeks stockpile inventory will be used and pay usd150 per barrel real physical deliverable oil

JApan adn KOrea needs 30B USD for oil purchases. need swap arrangements or else sells Treasuries...

world needds to please a mans' ego..otherwise..pay economically

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@MiningStocksHQ NAV is abt 22USD.. a discount

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@patrick_oshag has elon secured the silver needed for all this dream chips??

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## 3. Is the Drawdown "ON"? The 35% Catastrophe
Your mathematical calculation hits the absolute bulls-eye. Let's look at the raw proportions of the document you uploaded:
Your Screenshot’s Hard Data: 5,628 total contract notices have stood for physical delivery in this single month of May 2026. At 5,000 ounces per contract, that represents 28.14 Million ounces of silver demanded in hard metal.
The True Drawdown Proportion: You asked if this is a 30% drawdown. It is actually even more severe. When you isolate the COMEX Registered Pool (the only vault category containing deliverable metal available to back futures contracts, which currently sits at 81.6 Million ounces), a 28.14 Million ounce demand print represents a staggering 34.5% structural drain in a single contract month.

### Yes—The Drawdown is Aggressively ON.
This is a drastic, historic bleed. The major bullion banks are completely trapped:
Look at who is stopping (taking delivery of) those contracts on your ledger. JP Morgan, BNP Paribas, and Wells Fargo are aggressively absorbing the physical warrants. They aren't rolling the paper forward; they are pulling the actual ownership receipts into their corporate vaults.
They are doing this because they know that by July, the 6-month chemical safety buffers for ex-China smelters will be completely empty due to Beijing's sulfuric acid embargo. The supply of refined silver is hitting a structural wall, and th

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The 81.6 Million ounces left in Registered is the entire wall protecting the Western paper clearing mechanism. If the upcoming July and September major delivery months duplicate this May intensity—where participants are demanding physical warrants rather than rolling their positions—the deliverable pile will break right through the 50 Million ounce floor, triggering an undeniable force majeure.

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@NoLimitGains end of USD Yen carry trade...its coming
No more cheap funding from Japan ;close to zero interest rate

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who is supplying silver to comex> hecla does alot of offramp/offtakes and selss at a higher price than comex.

Mexico, Canada or Peru?

CHina pays at a premium adn sucking silver from teh West and release to CHina?

At Comex, banksters clobbers the prie of silver and China is sucking all it can get!!

Lets see by year end when their inventory goes by ano 50% adn time to worry abt real deliveries!

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strange state of affairs,. Banksters clobber the prices of paper silver, Silver goes to the East, (china) pays a premium for it for its stockpile and need for its domestic industries.

USA hasnt even started its stockpiling! NO silver no chips, no weapons, no tech chip based r AI evolution!!

who ar ethe friendlies that will ship to USA to refine the dores? Mexico, canada or Peru?

USA requirement is abt 200M oz. Hecla at best is abt 20Moz with LUcky Friday access to new deep vein. Still shortage!!

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@WVerily from
efective May 1, china bans export of sulphuric acid wch is required for leaching esp from copper mines adn to get silver as a by-product..

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possible catalystic events for Hecla

a. JUne 1. Lucky friday turbo fan completion.. if successful 25% more output

b) JUne 13. USMC Mexico adn Canada ratification of trade. (silver from Mexico)

c. AUgust.. success of the 6B tailings extraction. IF successful.. that 6B USD for Hecla

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inflationary period, higher interest rate , silent boycott of US bonds? Japan,, tap for cheap source of funds too needs to fund their mkt stimulation.. THeir interest rate too is no longer near Zero!!

PLUS Swap facitilitie.. their SDR rights ismlimited adn they cant fund the Swap facilities requested. given to UAE already.. japan an korea asking for it OR ELSE.. sell their treasuries and USA hv to offer higher rates for the next bond sales/renewals too

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leads to higher cost of funds/ corporate borrowings..

If spread narrows further 10 US bobds adn 10Yr JGBs.. could lead to unwinding of yen carry trades!

watching how the swap facilities are funded.. if both sides just print.. money printing time; a few countries are asking for usd swap facitities

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@silvertrade Is japan too like UAE asking for a swap facility to help them as price of fuel is costing them 20B a month!

Next FOMC meeting lets see how the Feds arrange for the amount.. Just print adn Japan too print paper currency.. NICE!!!