Do you have a source for silver being more rare than gold?
I couldn't remember off hand where I read this, but I did a cursory search and I .
Maybe this help you.
From the article:
Silver is 17.5 times more abundant in the Earth's crust than gold. But the amount of above-ground gold available far exceeds that of silver.
By "above ground" the author of the article apparently means, stacked in a pile in some vault somewhere. Silver is far more abundant than gold -- it just hasn't been stockpiled in vaults to the same degree.
From the mining aspect this may also be true, however the regulation of these metals could be key. There is more gold than there is silver being mined.
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