Silver Institute: Misinformation Minefield or Misguided Mission?
Things keep getting worse for the Embattled Silver Institute. If we asked 100 people at a shopping mall to examine two pieces of evidence 99 of 100 would say this is Now a Pattern.
by Pixy St. Claire
The Silver Academy was formed only four months ago when some Reddit SDC and WSS members started noticing troubling and deceptive data from the Silver Institute's World Silver Survey.
On October 12th, we published this "bombshell" report. It was this shot (pun intended) that caught the attention of over 1 million people (including social sharing)
We showed the years the US Department of Defense stopped reporting and how this lined up "coincidentally" with the US Bureau of Mines being shuddered. (around 1996)
Then, the icing on the cake, The US Deptartment of Energy published a critical materials list that omits Silver. LOL
An except from Our October article
2023 Final Critical Materials List
DOE has determined the final Critical Materials List to include the following:
Critical materials for energy: aluminum, cobalt, copper, dysprosium, electrical steel, fluorine, gallium, iridium, lithium, magnesium, natural graphite, neodymium, nickel, platinum, praseodymium, silicon, silicon carbide and terbium.
Critical minerals: The Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), published a 2022 final list of critical minerals that includes the following 50 minerals: “Aluminum, antimony, arsenic, barite, beryllium, bismuth, cerium, cesium, chromium, cobalt, dysprosium, erbium, europium, fluorspar, gadolinium, gallium, germanium, graphite, hafnium, holmium, indium, iridium, lanthanum, lithium, lutetium, magnesium, manganese, neodymium, nickel, niobium, palladium, platinum, praseodymium, rhodium, rubidium, ruthenium, samarium, scandium, tantalum, tellurium, terbium, thulium, tin, titanium, tungsten, vanadium, ytterbium, yttrium, zinc, and zirconium.”
I had to read this dozens of times and Thank God it was alphabetized (silver would fall in between samarium and scandium)
Gold isn’t on the list either (I see a pattern here)
Here is the web link
So let’s get to the 2 pieces of Evidence (whereby 99 out of 100 villagers) would agree show that there’s big trouble with the small thinking Silver Institute.
Based on these three previous reports by The Silver Academy (which no one has disputed to date) Here Here and Here + not on US critical minerals list
Why wouldn’t The Silver Institute provide leadership when time is of the essence? They had a chance to consult with some great Silver miners, but they sent the letter to the Wrong Country, Wrong Department, and Wrong Contact Person.
Sending “an open letter” to Canada is about as effective as sending it to a dignitary in New Guinea. It is the US Department of Energy and the US Department of Defense that matters
In all my years of consuming and writing investigative news, media criticism, and following this story, I don’t think I have ever seen anything more weak or misguided as you will see below.
This open letter is addressed to the wrong Country, incorrect agencies (and not even to the right person)
This exposes a concerning lack of due diligence by The Silver Institute and undermines the legitimacy of their open letter.
I want to emphasize that the CEOs who signed the letter did a great job, and it’s a start in the right direction.
We also know that our reporting on silver as a critical mineral is what is nudging people in the right direction.
But The Silver Institute failed again by missing:
Wrong Country
Wrong Department
Wrong Cabinet Member
3 Big Strikes
Please don’t take my word for it. Read the letter by clicking here and see that it’s addressed to someone in Canada instead of Department of Energy (that publishes the Critical minerals list) located in Washington DC.
Ironically, The Silver Institute are headquartered in Washington, DC. located at 1400 I St NW #550, Washington, DC 20005
So instead of an email to the wrong person (Jonathan Wilkinson) in the wrong Country (Canada) and to the incorrect cabinet department (Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources), they should have walked it over to the right Country (USA) to the correct department (Department of Energy) and hand-delivered to the right person US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm.
https://www.firstmajestic.com/_resources/Critical-Silver-Open-Letter.pdf
to be continued…
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