Just AI generated text ozcopper? OR is this an account compromise scenario?CNBC is already running the “bubble burst” narrative. Bloomberg too. They want you scared. They want you out.
But nobody’s talking about what happened in Shanghai during that exact same window.
While American traders panic-dumped at $75, Chinese buyers were paying $90. Ninety. For the same metal. The premium didn’t shrink during the crash—it widened.
Let that sink in.
This wasn’t a top. This was a heist.
I’ve been in this game long enough to know what a liquidity vacuum looks like. There were zero bids between $83 and $76. The algos pulled everything. Price didn’t fall—it teleported. And the second it hit $75, physical demand stepped in like it was Christmas morning.
Here’s the part that should terrify you: China locks silver exports in 72 hours. January 1st. Export licenses only. They control 70% of global supply. COMEX is down 70% on inventory. London’s vaults are bleeding. And Elon Musk just tweeted “this is not good” about the shortage.
The gold-silver ratio is 60:1. Historical average is 30. That’s $150 silver just to normalize.
Everyone’s calling this 1980. It’s not. The Hunts were speculators playing paper games. This is industrial demand crashing into empty vaults. Solar panels don’t negotiate. AI chips don’t wait.
Retail just handed their silver to sovereign wealth funds at a 15% discount.
And most of you have no idea what’s about to happen.
What crash? What bubble burst? Silver is at $108.00 AUD / $72.00 USD this morning. Sounds great to me, if all of the supposed games, emergency bailouts, margin hikes and such occurred and silver is still at these prices I'm not complaining.
All good, Just checking it was actually you.Came from here:

Having trouble with images today, but just look at the price in AUD from OCT to DEC.
Top $84, Neckline $79, fell to $74, before hitting ~$70 range, then retraced to test highs, and then blew past them.
Becides timeframe being months instead of days, and at a ratio of 1.5AUD : 1 USD.
The feelong of Deja-vu, i mean...
its got back up from here before.

It will be interesting to see what the narrative from the press have to say in the future when the dust has settled on all of this.
One of the biggest things that stick for me from 2011 was that it became far more obvious how much the press is used as a weapon against your average investor, bastards couldn't lie straight in bed.![]()
To touch on a point raised by Oz re the Chinese ban on refined silver come 1 Jan 2026, can anyone shed any light on the usual terms a miner may have with a silver refiner for the sale of their silver ore concentrate.
Whilst miners will of course wish to sell to highest price provider and with so much refining capacity off-shored to China in recent decades where to build and run a refinery is cheap, will the miners come under pressure from Govt mints, large private mints / wholesalers to redirect their silver concentrate to non PRC refiners to ensure supply or finished product.
Whilst China refines circa 60-70% of the worlds silver, they only produce approx 13-15% from own mines. Thus if the miners can direct ore to non PRC refiners, then that can resolve part of the supply issue but, subject to how long those miners are contracted to Chinese refiners from 1 Jan 2026 onwards, and can the big and small refiners inc those few in Aust, the US, Asian and Euro names scale up production to take on the redirected silver for refining.
It would make sense that the west and non China Asia should redirect their silver concentrate to home refiners or non PRC, but $ will usually drive where stock goes to. Unless Govt's impose a ban of the export of silver concentrate to China or the non Chinese refiners outbid their non Chinese rivals, then miners may just keep sending their silver ore on a one way boat trip to China as it's in their economic best interests. I think given the current US Administrations view on silver as a critical mineral plus many major global corporates production dependent on regular refined silver supplies, I think one of the former may happen sooner than later eg Govt intervention or higher margins payable by non Chinese refiners to miners...Either way the price of silver will probably still go up due to lack of supply or increased ore prices and refining costs driving price of finished silver up.