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Serpo
15th February 2013, 01:32 PM
Last month (http://dailyresourcehunter.com/the-silver-shortage-of-2013/)we posted a report (http://www.silverdoctors.com/is-ted-butlers-silver-panic-imminent-apple-contractor-claims-new-imac-production-delayed-over-silver-shortage/) (which subsequently went viral) from an Apple contractor who claimed that Apple has delayed production on the new 27″ iMacs due to an industrial silver shortage in China.http://www.silverdoctors.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/German-silver-shortage.png

New signs of an extremely tight wholesale physical silver market have now emerged, as a first-hand account has revealed that one of the largest and most famous German automakers is hoarding massive amounts of physical silver inside one of the most secure vaults in Zurich, Switzerland.
Financial writer Byron King, who viewed the massive German automaker’s silver hoard in Zurich stated:
Why does the German company store dozens of pallets of silver in a secure vault deep in the mountains of Switzerland? It’s simple, really. So that the metal is there when the car maker needs it. As one purchasing manager explained later in my travels, “For some metals, like silver, there’s no such thing as ‘just in time’ delivery anymore.”
In other words, this German company buys silver when it’s available. In fact, the company buys as much as it can acquire. Then it stores and stockpiles the material in a vault in the mountains of Switzerland, right next to the pope’s gold.
Ted Butler’s long anticipated panic buying & stockpiling of physical silver by industrial users appears to be gaining momentum.King begins the narrative (http://dailyresourcehunter.com/the-silver-shortage-of-2013/)by explaining that he was recently given a tour of one of the largest private vaults in Zurich, Switzerland, the same vault that houses the Vatican’s massive gold hoard:


Last summer, I visited a storage vault dug deep into solid rock and buried in the hills north of Zurich, Switzerland. It’s a massive complex, right down the road from a Swiss Army base (and that’s no accident). You can enter this facility only by prior appointment, because the Swiss customs department has to do a background check on you. The Swiss are very thorough, you may have heard.
http://www.silverdoctors.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/zurich-silver-vault.pngSource: Daily Resource Hunter

The vault is constructed with huge steel beams and enclosed by thick, reinforced concrete walls. Accompanied by an armed guard, you have to walk down a long, sloping set of corridors and then take an elevator to get to the deep levels. Heck, it’s like visiting a secure, military command bunker — of which I’ve seen a few in the course of my life’s journey. Finally, after a hike, you arrive at the business end of this facility.
This is no fly-by-night, rent-a-locker storage operation just off the interstate. It’s world-class. It’s a Swiss Fort Knox. In fact, in one zone of the vault, the Vatican keeps its gold. Seriously. As the vault manager told me, “Ja, de pope. He puts his faith in God. But he keeps his gold in Switzerland.”


King states that adjacent to the vault storing the Pope’s gold was a vault loaded down with physical stockpiles of silver hoarded by a German automaker:

In another zone of the same complex, a German automaker — a household name whose motorcars are revered across the world — stores industrial quantities of silver, and I mean a LOT of it. Here’s a photo of just a few pallets that belong to the German company.

http://www.silverdoctors.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/German-automaker-silver-hoard.pngSource: Daily Resource Hunter

These pallets cover the floor of a large room and are loaded down with innumerable 22-pound bags (10 kilograms, actually) of .999 fine silver. There’s way more silver than what you see in the photo, but it’s among the few pictures I was allowed to take.

King essentially confirms Ted Butler’s prediction that major industrial users of silver would begin hoarding the metal when serious wholesale supply constraints began to emerge:


Why does the German company store dozens of pallets of silver in a secure vault deep in the mountains of Switzerland? It’s simple, really. So that the metal is there when the carmaker needs it. As one purchasing manager explained later in my travels, “For some metals, like silver, there’s no such thing as ‘just in time’ delivery anymore.”
In other words, this German company buys silver when it’s available. In fact, the company buys as much as it can acquire. Then it stores and stockpiles the material in a vault in the mountains of Switzerland, right next to the pope’s gold.
Perhaps Apple should have had a silver vault in Zurich.
While the retail investment community bemoans silver’s 2 year correction, large industrial users have been using silver’s price weakness and boring trading action to acquire and hoard massive physical supplies of the metal.
Combine the potential for an industrial silver panic with record breaking investment silver retail sales, and the formula is in place for a historically unprecedented, upside explosion in silver of Biblical proportions as both investors and industrial users frantically search for any physical silver metal they can acquire- regardless of price.
For some metals like silver, there’s no such thing as just in time delivery anymore.
As the German automaker’s executives know full well, the time to acquire physical silver is now, while physical supplies can still be found.

http://www.silverdoctors.com/german-automaker-reportedly-hoarding-as-much-physical-silver-as-it-can-acquire/#more-21530

mick silver
15th February 2013, 01:40 PM
it would be nice to not see the price going down for once when stuff like this make it to the people

milehi
15th February 2013, 01:50 PM
Car in the article looks like a 2004 Audi A8 L.

Serpo
15th February 2013, 02:10 PM
Gold market report: spike in banks' net short silver position

2013-FEB-15

http://www.goldmoney.com/images/thumbnails/silver-bar-hands.jpgLast Friday night (European time, 8 February) the Bank Participation Report for 5 February was released. This showed that US banks reduced their net short gold position by 12,886 contracts over the month of January, while non-US banks increased theirs by 2,887 contracts. This is evidence that the US banking community is aggressively closing its short positions. A little of this was picked up by the non-bank commercials (mostly mines, refiners and processors) whose net shorts increased by 6,512 contracts to 56,573.
In silver they were unable to close down their positions – the US banks increasing their exposure by 7,956 contracts over the month. The non-US banks increased their short positions by 457 contracts, representing over 42 million ounces between them to give a total short position of 277,810,000 ounces, the second highest on record.
The two charts below show the contrasting positions for US banks in gold and silver.

http://www.goldmoney.com/images/charts/USGoldShort.pnghttp://www.goldmoney.com/images/charts/USShortAg.png
We can be sure that the massive short position in silver is causing difficulties for the banks concerned, because of the lack of physical supply. Therefore, the bullion banks have an exposure which appears to be out of control. While they frequently conduct bear raids (which are more successful in gold) they face the risk in silver of themselves becoming victims of a bear squeeze. Unusually, they have got themselves into this mess on a low silver price, and it is roughly double the short position than when the silver price was over $40. This being the case, when silver turns up the banks are likely to be very badly squeezed, throwing up enormous losses. Meanwhile, the non-bank commercials have kept a level head and reduced their net short position by 2,268 contracts to 3,616.
It is against that background that gold and silver prices declined this week, with gold falling about $30 to $1,630 level, and silver by $1.50 to around $30.25. Given that the bullion banks are trying to close down their positions, one would expect open interest to fall. Instead they have both risen, gold by over 25,000 contracts and silver by 2,936 contracts, indicating that buyers are taking the opportunity to accumulate at these low prices. We look forward to next week with interest.


http://www.goldmoney.com/gold-research/alasdair-macleod/spike-in-banks-net-short-position.html?gmrefcode=gata

Large Sarge
15th February 2013, 03:23 PM
this is big news folks!!!!

first apple, and now a luxury car maker....


wonder who is next?

JohnQPublic
15th February 2013, 03:52 PM
this is big news folks!!!!

first apple, and now a luxury car maker....


wonder who is next?

The combined GSUS membership?

vacuum
15th February 2013, 04:03 PM
Was the apple story ever confirmed? Because it just happened to coincide with apple cutting production by 50% in some cases due to lower sales than expected.

Large Sarge
15th February 2013, 04:17 PM
Was the apple story ever confirmed? Because it just happened to coincide with apple cutting production by 50% in some cases due to lower sales than expected.

it coincided with U.S. mint and Canadian mint halting all silver sales

and I believe Eric Sprott had an order in at the time also

Ponce
15th February 2013, 04:24 PM
Now then, why the hell are they showing one of my pallets? I told them to keep all my bags way out in the back room :(

V

sirgonzo420
15th February 2013, 04:25 PM
Now then, why the hell are they showing one of my pallets? I told them to keep all my bags way out in the back room :(

V

If you don't hold it, you don't own it.

You should know that, Ponce.


:)

midnight rambler
15th February 2013, 04:51 PM
Brass, the future is in brass. I'm hoarding all the brass* I can find available. I got my sights on a mega score of some high quality brass.

*and when I can't find what I'm looking for in brass I default to what's available in steel

joboo
15th February 2013, 05:08 PM
Was the apple story ever confirmed? Because it just happened to coincide with apple cutting production by 50% in some cases due to lower sales than expected.

I can't imagine it was as apple doesn't manufacture their own LCD screens. They get them from a manufacturer so it would have affected more than just apple.

Large Sarge
15th February 2013, 06:11 PM
I can't imagine it was as apple doesn't manufacture their own LCD screens. They get them from a manufacturer so it would have affected more than just apple.

you have some proof? a source?

and my guesstimate with a company like Apple, who already has the factory in a low wage country like china, is that they will tend to keep things in house, they are so secretive, and such innovators....

joboo
15th February 2013, 06:28 PM
you have some proof? a source?

and my guesstimate with a company like Apple, who already has the factory in a low wage country like china, is that they will tend to keep things in house, they are so secretive, and such innovators....

I used to repair computers & monitors at the component level for an IBM subsidiary advanced exchange warranty program in the mid 90's. It involved looking at schematics, measuring voltages, soldering capacitors, resistors, transistors, IC's etc... into circuit boards to make them work again.

Apple, Dell, ACER, Sony, IBM, Daewoo, and pretty much every other major manufacturer came through the door at the time. We fixed essentially everything that you could call a computer, or monitor, and plug in.

Without exception, every CRT inside the monitors were manufactured by either Sony or LG. If Apple manufactures their own screens now I would be surprised. 100% of the screens inside anything apple was made by Sony.

Their supplier has probably changed since that time (1995-2000). It seems they like the LG flavor since 2009.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Apple-LG-LCD-Displays-Monitors,6824.html

Glass
16th February 2013, 03:37 AM
it appears to be Samsung and Sharp supplying screens (http://www.google.com.au/#hl=en&tbo=d&biw=1280&bih=642&sclient=psy-ab&q=who+supplies+screens+to+apple&oq=who+supplies+screens+to+apple&gs_l=hp.3..0i8i30.50014.57568.0.57723.33.29.2.2.2. 3.776.10483.2-2j20j5j0j1.28.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.3.psy-ab.mXLPrjbb6gQ&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dGI&fp=938c58edee3526d8)

Large Sarge
16th February 2013, 10:57 AM
it appears to be Samsung and Sharp supplying screens (http://www.google.com.au/#hl=en&tbo=d&biw=1280&bih=642&sclient=psy-ab&q=who+supplies+screens+to+apple&oq=who+supplies+screens+to+apple&gs_l=hp.3..0i8i30.50014.57568.0.57723.33.29.2.2.2. 3.776.10483.2-2j20j5j0j1.28.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.3.psy-ab.mXLPrjbb6gQ&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42553238,d.dGI&fp=938c58edee3526d8)

electronics are the next big hoarder sis my guess, plasma tvs, lcd screens, etc

sony, samsung, etc