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The landscape is dominated by a mix of national networks that refine scrap and bullion, specialized regional refiners, and a few miners with in-house smelting capacity — but there is no single indepen...
There are very few standalone, U.S.-based precious‑metal refineries that are publicly traded; most U.S. refiners named in industry directories are privately held or subsidiaries of foreign companies, ...
A review of the provided reporting finds that the prominent U.S. precious‑metal refiners cited — including Metalor USA, Asahi Refining USA (a subsidiary of Japan’s Asahi), United Precious Metal Refini...
Publicly traded companies that refine silver are mostly large integrated miners that operate smelters or minting facilities rather than standalone, exchange-listed refiners; notable examples include I...
A potential silver refining bottleneck would shift premium and profit from raw miners to firms that control processing and refining capacity, making integrated producers, specialty refiners and select...
points to materially higher all‑in sustaining costs (AISC) on a —about $19.89–$21.27 (ex‑non‑cash $19.35–$20.67)—with cash costs reported near $14.8/AgEq oz in 2025 reporting . By contrast, (which are...
’s margins and cash-flow profile have expanded sharply during the 2025–2026 : reported cash and AISC fell into the low-$20s per silver-equivalent ounce range while realized silver prices exploded, pro...
The supplied reporting does not name specific that definitively have their metal refined in ; available sources profile mid‑tier producers but stop short of documenting their refiner destinations . Wh...
Major public silver miners and a handful of focused silver companies are signaling clear production ramps: is guiding materially higher attributable silver ounces for 2026, is positioning to scale out...
President Trump’s administration used executive orders, emergency permitting procedures and program pauses to speed approvals for projects tied to energy, mining and other “priority” infrastructure — ...