Three Ancient Belts Carry Ghana's Gold, and Investment Keeps Flowing to Them

In March 2026, one of Ghana's own mining companies said it would invest about $1.2 billion in its operations at the Tarkwa and Damang gold mines. Both sit on the Ashanti belt, one of three narrow bands of ancient rock that carry almost all of Ghana's gold.

September 2, 2026

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Charted: Fifty Years of Gold Production in West Africa

West Africa is in the middle of a gold run. In 2025 Ghana's output climbed more than 23 percent to a record 5.94 million ounces, holding its place as Africa's largest producer and now the sixth-largest in the world, and analysts expect the wider region to rebound about 8 percent in 2026.

August 17, 2026

2 min

Ghana's Gold Mining Landscape: A Story Written in Ancient Rock

Ghana is one of the world's most significant gold-producing countries, and in 2025 it remained the largest in Africa, with national output reaching about 6 million ounces. But the numbers are only the surface. Ghana's gold reaches back more than two billion years into the rock beneath it, shaped by ancient mountain-building forces and worked by human hands for well over a century.

August 3, 2026

2 min

Solar Is Silver's Largest Industrial Market, and Not Easily Replaced

When LONGi Green Energy, the world's largest solar module maker, told investors on January 5, 2026 that it would begin mass-producing base-metal solar cells in the second quarter, it put a number on a pressure the whole industry feels. Solar is the largest single application within silver's industrial demand, and as the metal ran to a record above $121 an ounce in January, rising silver costs pushed manufacturers to accelerate efforts to reduce the metal per cell.

July 20, 2026

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Silver in the Data Center: How AI's Power Crunch Is Building a New Pillar of Industrial Demand

In early 2026, the artificial intelligence narrative shifted abruptly from software capabilities to physical hardware constraints. With tech giants committing hundreds of billions to new infrastructure—pushing global hyperscaler capital expenditures past $600 billion this year—the industry has collided with a new primary bottleneck: a severe power and thermal crunch.

July 6, 2026

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Silver's Use Cases: A Visual Guide to Where the Metal Actually Goes

Somewhere inside a pressurized-water reactor, an alloy that is four-fifths silver is absorbing neutrons to keep the core in check, a job most silver investors have never heard of. It is a useful reminder that the metal people picture as coins and jewelry mostly works elsewhere, across industry.

June 22, 2026

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Ranked: The Countries That Produced the Most Silver in 2025

Mexico remained the world's top silver-producing country in 2025, mining 172.9 million ounces (Moz), roughly a fifth of global supply, according to the World Silver Survey 2026, produced for the Silver Institute by Metals Focus. But Mexico's lead narrowed: its output fell 5% for a third straight year, while second-place Peru climbed 7%. Global mine production rose 3% to 846.6 Moz, even as the ranking's top tier told a story of one leader sliding and its closest rival closing in.

June 15, 2026

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Electric Vehicles Are Set to Become the Auto Industry's Biggest Silver Consumer by 2027

Most of silver's 2026 story has been told from the supply side: a sixth straight year of structural deficit and a record price near $121 in January. Less examined is where the next leg of industrial demand actually comes from. With solar, silver's largest industrial use, now facing thrifting and substitution, the Silver Institute points to a quieter end-use picking up the slack: the automotive sector. A December 2025 study from Oxford Economics and the Silver Institute quantifies that shift, and the engine behind it is the electric vehicle.

June 8, 2026

1 min

Silver Market Balance: A 2026 Update

For the fifth year running, the world used more silver than it produced in 2025, and the World Silver Survey 2026 expects 2026 to extend that streak to six. The report, released in April by the Silver Institute and researched by the London consultancy Metals Focus, pegs the 2025 deficit at 40.3 million ounces and forecasts a wider gap of 46.3 million ounces this year. Each shortfall draws on above-ground stocks, leaving less metal readily available even as total inventories have held up.

May 25, 2026

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Silver Coin and Bar Demand Surges 14% Amid Global Market Tightness

Silver had a strange year. After three years of investors quietly walking away from the physical market, 2025 saw them come back. Not in a trickle, but in a rush concentrated into the final four months, as prices ripped through one record after another and dealers started rationing inventory.According to the World Silver Survey 2026, global coin and net bar demand jumped 14% to 217.7 Moz in 2025, the first annual increase since 2022.

May 21, 2026

2 min

Samsung's Silver-Carbon Solid-State Battery

The electric vehicle (EV) industry is approaching a generational transition. While current lithium-ion technology has enabled the first wave of mass adoption, manufacturers are actively seeking solutions to persistent challenges regarding energy density, charging speed, and safety. Among the leading candidates for the next generation of energy storage is the solid-state battery (SSB), with major developers like Samsung SDI targeting mass production by 2027.

May 18, 2026

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Silver's 100-Year Chart, Annotated: Four U.S. Government Decisions

In our previous installations charting the 100-year history of silver, we mapped its overarching transition from a government-controlled monetary asset to a modern industrial necessity. Today, the market is defined by a multi-year structural deficit, as confirmed by the Silver Institute's latest supply and demand data. But while the broad strokes of silver’s history, like the 1971 Nixon Shock or the famous Hunt Brothers squeeze, are well known, the raw data reveals overlooked catalysts that forced violent re-pricing.

May 11, 2026

2 min

Silver’s Elevation to Critical Mineral Status: A Strategic Turning Point for U.S. Supply Chains

The U.S. Department of the Interior’s addition of silver to the Final 2025 List of Critical Minerals in November 2025 marks a pivotal shift. No longer viewed primarily as a precious metal for jewelry and investment, silver is now recognized as vital to technology, the energy transition, and national security.

April 27, 2026

1 min

Precious Metals

Three Ancient Belts Carry Ghana's Gold, and Investment Keeps Flowing to Them

Charted: Fifty Years of Gold Production in West Africa

Ghana's Gold Mining Landscape: A Story Written in Ancient Rock

Solar Is Silver's Largest Industrial Market, and Not Easily Replaced

Silver in the Data Center: How AI's Power Crunch Is Building a New Pillar of Industrial Demand

Silver's Use Cases: A Visual Guide to Where the Metal Actually Goes

Ranked: The Countries That Produced the Most Silver in 2025

Electric Vehicles Are Set to Become the Auto Industry's Biggest Silver Consumer by 2027

Silver Market Balance: A 2026 Update

Silver Coin and Bar Demand Surges 14% Amid Global Market Tightness

Samsung's Silver-Carbon Solid-State Battery

Silver's 100-Year Chart, Annotated: Four U.S. Government Decisions

Silver’s Elevation to Critical Mineral Status: A Strategic Turning Point for U.S. Supply Chains