Re why is the price of silver down, when the US Mint announces shortages thereof: This is not a complicated game. The silver thieves are not clever either. Just watch the COMEX, and see them relentlessly hold the price of silver down with paper silver contracts. In stupendous tonnages of nonexistent silver, high speed traded among the colluders to arrive at the price they desire. Forget the London Silver Fix. Now it is just open thievery, without even making an attempt to hide it.

Mint running out of silver is not new either. Has happened several times in the last few years, law that they must provide it for sale be damned. Massive red flag, ignored by the mass psychosis formation. What is different now, and fatal to the enemies of silver, is that there is nothing in the pipeline for weeks, on top of absolutely devastating fundamentals that are IMO bullish for silver to an extent never before seen in history, for any item. They have lost, and methinks UKR is related to silver, the pin on the grenade.