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Silver Refining Capacity 2024

The available reporting flags refinery bottlenecks and a meaningful lag between demand shocks and new capacity coming online, and the global silver refining capacity is estimated to be around 1.3 billion ounces annually.

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How much refined silver refining capacity exists by country and how quickly can new refining capacity be brought online?

is concentrated and opaque: industry commentary places total refining throughput at roughly 1.3 billion ounces per year across a few dozen major refineries, with accounting for an outsized share — com...