{"id":4317,"date":"2014-04-18T19:28:09","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T19:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=4317"},"modified":"2014-04-18T19:28:09","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T19:28:09","slug":"silver-the-dual-purpose-precious-metal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=4317","title":{"rendered":"Silver, the dual-purpose precious metal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Tim Maverick<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Wall Street Daily<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/silbars160.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2713\" alt=\"silbars160\" src=\"http:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/silbars160.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"152\" data-id=\"2713\" \/><\/a>Unlike gold &#8212; where 75% of what\u2019s mined annually is used for jewelry &#8212; silver is mostly used for industrial purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, 75% of the silver that\u2019s mined annually is used for industry. It\u2019s not surprising, given silver\u2019s electrical and thermal conductivity, as well as corrosion resistance.<\/p>\n<p>And when you take a closer look, you can see that a rapidly growing number of industries &#8212; from electronics to medicine &#8212; are taking advantage of silver\u2019s unique properties.\u00a0Indeed, silver can now be found in our smartphones, TVs, laptops, automobiles &#8212; even the Pentagon\u2019s C17s and Apache helicopters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wallstreetdaily.com\/2014\/04\/18\/silver\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Continue reading . . .<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike gold &#8212; where 75% of what\u2019s mined annually is used for jewelry &#8212; silver is mostly used for industrial purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4318,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317\/revisions\/4318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}