Silver Price History
Interactive silver price chart with historical data and key statistics.
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Understanding Silver Prices
Silver serves a dual role as both a precious metal and an industrial commodity, making its price dynamics unique among metals. Roughly half of silver demand comes from industrial applications including electronics, solar panels, and medical devices.
Silver prices tend to be more volatile than gold, offering both greater upside potential and higher risk. The gold-to-silver ratio — how many ounces of silver it takes to buy one ounce of gold — is a key metric investors watch to gauge relative value.
Factors driving silver prices include industrial demand trends, monetary policy, mining supply, investment demand through ETFs and physical purchases, and the broader precious metals market sentiment.