Dreyfus: Global above-ground silver stockpiles will run out in three years
Dan Dreyfus · Dan Dreyfus: The Next AI Bottleneck is Copper · Jun 10, 2026 · at 22:43
Investor Dan Dreyfus presents data on global silver demand for solar panels and predicts a complete stockout of above-ground silver inventory within three years.
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“Right now the silver supply demand dynamic is we consume a 1,000,000,002 ounces a year, we supply a billion ounces a year. So it's a two hundred million ton deficit per year, and we only have six hundred million of above ground inventory left, so the clock's ticking. We got three years left, guys, before we just stock out, and then the solar story is, where do you get the silver for the photovoltaic cells?”
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