What we are seeing today is a fairly good supply of silver made available to retail buyers. One expert I follow predicts that this will continue until later this year.

About holiday season or possible sooner we are expected to return to tighter supply and an awakening of the public to both precious metals. Shortly after the physical market tightens next time, I predict that the public will turn to paper forms; miners and ETF's.

The big concern I have is IF the ETF's will be investigated and information is released as to their real holdings of unencumbered physical metal. If we get the info that the ETFs are what many of us believe, just a gambling casino on the price of silver and gold, then the miners will be the place to turn.