Some portion of all are gold juniors value is in the gold "equivalent" silver portion of what they will mine.

Check out this alert from Jason Hommel.

http://www.silverstockreport.com/2008/crunch.html

It seems that  few dealers have very much physical inventory left; period. The paper derivative short game in silver may be about to end, not because they will run out of paper to short the market with but because the reality of what is being done will be exposed when there just isn't any silver available for delivery.

If you can't get the stuff at any price...why is the price under $20.00 and going down?  This stuff is vitally necessary in the commercial market. Sooner or later the paper short ploy has to be seen through. The same tactics in gold will then be seen for what they are.

P.