"If you put the entire earth into a crusher, ran it through a mill and a smelter, you would end up with more gold than silver."
Meaning, of course, that gold is more ubiquitous than silver... it is just that silver tends to be more highly concentrated when you do find it, therefore more economically feasible to recover.
AS to gold and silver, I have a bit more than my fair share, despite yesterday's intended gold buy not happening despite best efforts.
But I did learn something worth relaying when I was paying for yesterday morning's silver order: As I was getting a cashiers check to send to APMEX, I was informed that name , address, telephone number, driver's license and social security numbers are now required to be reported to the government on any cash transaction of $3,000 or more.... It used to be $10,000, but I guess they lowered it sometime recently.
That bothers me just a bit.
They lowered it after 9/11/01.
And if they come around, asking about those big transactions to mints and bullion dealers, you can always say you sold it for dollars and paid off debt.