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Silver · Ag

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USGS_2025

Bottom line

Silver sits on 1 federal critical-minerals list; mine supply is well diversified (HHI 0.13, 2025), led by 🇲🇽 Mexico at 26% of output. The US is 77% net import-reliant (2025). Prices rose 34% over the past year (+11%/yr over 4y).

At a glance

Headline indicators

Price · 2026

81$/troy oz

World Bank Pink Sheet

Price trend

+34% 1Y

+11%/yr · 4Y CAGR

US net import reliance · 2025

77%

Mine production HHI

0.13

Diversified · 2025

From ore to use

lifecycle flow

01Reserves
610.0Kt
Peru leads · 18% share
02Production
27,767,878kilograms (metal content)
Mexico top · 2024
03Trade
7.3Kt

Coverage

Data coverage notes

datedMaterial-flow analysis is historical - All 6218 material-flow records date to 2004 or earlier (Yale STAF era). They describe the anthropogenic cycle of that period, not today's system.
datedEnvironmental footprint is dated - Cradle-to-gate intensity rows carry a 2008 inventory vintage (Nuss & Eckelman-era LCA). Current-process footprints are not yet in scope.
datedExport-restriction inventory ends 2020 - The OECD industrial-raw-materials inventory (vendored snapshot) reports HS-line measures only through 2020; restrictions enacted since are not reflected in the measure table.
narrowConsumption geography is single-economy (United States) - Reported consumption covers one economy only - the world usage split must be read from trade flows, not from a consumption table.

Provenance

Where this data comes from

net importer · 2025

04Stocks

15.0Kt

year-end · 2025

05Consumption

9.4Kt

Consumption, apparent · 2025

Methodology

How strata reads a commodity

The eight-stage lens, the observed-vs-estimated membrane, stage-honest supply, per-stage concentration, ownership resolution and the demand lens - the full method is illustrated live on copper, nickel and lithium.

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Statistics Canada Table 16-10-0022
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USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026
USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries World Data (legacy wide format, 2023-2025 vintages)
USGS Mineral Industry Surveys
USGS Minerals Yearbook OFR 2025-1047
USGS Minerals Yearbook Vol III, reference year 2019
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USGS National Mine Waste Inventory (NMWI)
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World Bank Pink Sheet

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