SILVER DOCTORS: Wholesale Silver Shortage…. CONFIRMED

Precious Metals by SRSrocco

With SDBullion’s contacts with the nation’s leading precious metals mints, wholesalers, authorized purchasers, and distributors, the latest evidence indicates that the wholesale silver shortage is WORSENING:

US Mint Authorized Purchasers advised SDBullion Thursday that Silver Eagle allocations have been substantially declining every week since sales resumed.
2 weeks ago the US Mint made 1.4 million Silver Eagle coins available to Authorized Purchasers, last week only 1 million were made available, and SDBullion was advised that this week the number declined an additional 20%.

Further, US Mint officials reportedly are advising Authorized Purchasers that they will begin making the switch to 2016 Silver Eagle production in September, drastically reducing output of 2015 coins.
As it takes less than a day to change out dyes (in addition to the fact that in previous years the US Mint has halted sales in the November/December time-frame for the annual “switchover”) the evidence in our opinion points to the US Mint having extreme difficulties in sourcing raw material for Silver Eagle coins.

•The Exclusive Distributor for the leading private mint 100 oz Silver bars in the US advised SDBullion on Thursday that the mint had been scheduled (and promised) to deliver 10,000 100 oz Silver Bars on Wednesday (1 million oz of a single private mint product), but was only able to deliver a little over 3,000 bars.

•The Royal Canadian Mint reportedly did not release a single 1 oz Silver Maple to any of the Authorized Purchasers SDBullion spoke to this week.
This comes on the heels of a severe issue with the Royal Canadian Mint’s production of 10 oz Silver bars.