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Silver refiners aren't in the stacking or investing business. They take raw materials (scrap silver, 90% silver, etc) and turn it into 1000 oz .999 fine silver bars that can be used in the big boy's financial circles on COMEX or the LMBA. They don't want the risk involved with holding silver, they just want to refine the product and collect their margin for doing so, that's their business.
So, typically when refineries buy scrap or junk silver inventory, they SHORT IT on the paper markets, so that any gain or loss in the price of silver is offset. They collect their fee for being a refinery at zero risk and everyone goes home happy. The cost to short the silver in their inventory is usually insignificant.
Or usually so it goes...
The LMBA has so little available silver the PRICE TO SHORT SILVER HAS SOARED. There's no availability of silver to borrow in order to short on the financial markets...so the price to do so has skyrocketed to 100-200% interest per year to borrow silver to short. That means just to cover your position over a few days you're looking at significant cost...way more money than refiners on a tight profit margin to begin with want to spend. So they just shut down!
So again, the reason for refineries shutting down isn't too much silver, it is ironically not enough available silver!
