| From Mineweb.co.za: Silver is often viewed as a horse with two masters. On the one hand it is viewed as a monetary instrument and valued in the same way as gold, as an asset of last resort but, on the other hand it is viewed as an industrial metal.
In the recent past, with the advent of digital technology, one of the metal's main industrial uses - photographic film - declined significantly while at the same time people were beginning to focus more attention on its monetary attributes, especially once silver ETFs were introduced to investors..............................................Full Article: Source
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