Silver's torrid rally has Americans in frenzy to buy, sell coins
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2026-01-18 10:29 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Yvonne Yue Li
Bloomberg News
via Mining.com / The Northern Miner, Toronto
Wednesday, January 14, 2026
The last time silver was this hot, Reddit posters piled in to drive prices even higher, creating a frenzy that overwhelmed dealers. The metal's current rally has set off a similar dynamic.
Retail stampede fuels silver's wild rally
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2026-01-18 09:33 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Leslie Hook
Financial Times, London
Friday, January 16, 2026
At Dillon Gage, a refinery in Texas, workers are toiling round the clock to melt down jewelry, dining sets, and even old dental fillings, but it is still struggling to keep pace with customers' rush to sell the family silver.
"We are running three shifts, seven days a week," says president Terry Hanlon. "We can’t keep up."
Gold and silver futures sold in commodity index rebalancing were bought and quickly converted to physical, Maguire tells LFTV
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2026-01-16 21:54 Section: Daily Dispatches9:54p ET Friday, January 16, 2026
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):
London metals trader Andrew Maguire is back with the first 2026 episode of Kinesis Money's "Live from the Vault" program, noting that this week's much-feared commodity index rebalancing that sold billions of dollars of gold and silver futures failed to knock down prices as the futures were purchased for quick conversion to real metal.
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'The dollar is losing credibility': Why central banks are scrambling for gold
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2026-01-16 13:09 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Richard Partington
The Guardian, London
Friday, January 16, 2026
Fifteen minutes after takeoff, the call came for Serbia's central bank governor: Millions of dollars' worth of gold bars, destined for a high-security Belgrade vault, had been left on the runway of a Swiss airport.
In air freight -- despite the extraordinary value of bullion -- fresh flowers, food, and other perishables still take priority. "We learned this the hard way," Jorgovanka Tabakovic told a conference late last year.
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Silver's sharp rise prompts U.S. mint to suspend coin sales pending repricing
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2026-01-15 19:14 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Stuart Englert
https://stuartenglert.substack.com
Thursday, January 15, 2026
Rapidly rising silver prices have created a dilemma for the U.S. Mint, which has suspended sales of all silver coins until it can reprice the products on its website.
All silver products are "temporarily unavailable" for purchase "until we update the website with new prices," a mint sales representative told me today when I inquired via a toll-free customer-service telephone number.
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Ghana to scrap mining stability pacts and double royalties, Reuters says
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2026-01-15 18:49 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Maxwell Akalaare Adombila and Emmanuel Bruce
Reuters
Thursday, January 15, 2026
ACCRA -- Ghana will scrap long-term mining investment stability agreements and double royalties under sweeping reforms, the regulator in Africa's top gold producer told Reuters, as it seeks to capture more benefits from surging bullion prices.
The changes are part of a broad overhaul aimed at balancing investor confidence with the government's push to reap greater rewards from mining, Isaac Tandoh, acting CEO of the Minerals Commission, said in an interview in Accra.
