4/ Why?
Because the market is quietly admitting something:
➡️ Silver is becoming more strategically important than oil.
Energy is the bloodstream.
Silver is the nervous system.
One can be replaced.
The other CANNOT.
5/ Look at the fundamentals:
• Solar demand = record
• EV demand = record
• Semiconductor demand = record
• Medical + industrial use = record
• Mine CAPEX = worst in 15 years
• 75% of supply = by-product
• Inventories = vanishing
• East = absorbing every physical ounce
6/ If 1 oz of silver buys more barrels of oil than at any time since the 1970s…
…that means one thing:
➡️ The world has TOO LITTLE SILVER.
Not on COMEX.
Not in ETFs.
In the REAL WORLD.
7/ And here’s the killer:
Every previous spike in the silver–oil ratio was followed by a massive move in silver.
Not sometimes.
Not occasionally.
EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
8/ People talk about “undervaluation” like it’s a meme.
But this?
This isn’t a meme.
This is the hardest industrial signal since the 1970s telling you:
🥈 Silver is dramatically mispriced.
🛢️ Energy is cheap relative to silver.
🌍 The system is shifting.
9/ If you think this ends quietly, you’re dreaming.
Markets don’t ignore signals like this.
Not when the metal with the tightest physical deficit in the entire G7 supply chain is outperforming ENERGY itself.
10/ The silver–oil ratio is whispering a truth the mainstream refuses to say out loud:
➡️ Silver is no longer a precious metal.
It’s a strategic resource.
And the world is running out of it.
Big on paper.
Tiny for China’s industrial machine.
You can move that much metal with a handful of trucks.
So where did it really come from?
3/ Spoiler:
It’s almost certainly not new supply.
❌ Not from miners — new mine output takes 3–6 months to reach a vault.
❌ Not from imports — no RMB price reaction, no premium shift, no matching signals.
Meaning:
This is reclassification, not “fresh silver”.
China’s silver market just sent another message —
the physical world is tightening, not loosening.
Both SGE and SHFE closed the week higher:
SGE silver: +1.12%
SHFE silver: +2.06%
Price in USD: ** ~$60/oz**
When both markets rise together, it’s usually one thing:
➡️ Real demand. Real metal. Real pressure.
2/
Just look at the vaults:
SHFE silver vaults
Dec 5: 687,956 kg
Dec 8: 699,291 kg
A small +11,335 kg bounce —
after a massive –28,680 kg weekly draw just days before.
This is classic supply-tightness behavior:
➡️ Big outflows
➡️ Tiny inflows
➡️ Price keeps rising
The vaults are rebuilding nothing.
They’re barely breathing.
3/
And the SGE weekly vault numbers?
This week: missing / delayed.
Historically, that almost always means two things:
1) Volatility 2) A strong weekly move — usually a large outflow
Last week’s draw was nearly –29 tons.
If this week is similar or even larger, it will surface soon — and the price action is already hinting in that direction.
🚨 The LBMA “Silver Surge”: What the Numbers Really Tell Us
Over the past three months, LBMA claims its silver vaults have suddenly gained 83.7 million ounces.
That’s 2,600 metric tons.
To put this in perspective:
That is the equivalent of two large silver mines magically appearing — without a single miner, refinery, or logistics company noticing.
In real commodity markets, that simply does not happen.
1. Such a massive “increase in inventories” is statistically impossible
83.7 million ounces is not a rounding error.
It’s a global-scale event — the kind that would hit mining news, industrial procurement channels, and bullion trade desks everywhere.
Yet the global market saw zero corresponding physical flows.
When numbers leap like this without real-world evidence, it’s not supply — it’s accounting.
2. The physical market shows the exact opposite trend
While LBMA vaults supposedly ballooned:
SGE inventories continue to fall by tens of tonnes per week
India is importing record volumes of silver
The US Mint is struggling to source blanks
Industrial users report shortages of high-purity silver
A real surplus would ease physical stress across all these channels.