They’ve gone through with the sale of 58 million shares at C$6 a share to raise enough money to purchase a silver mine in Guatemala for $330 million USD. The IPO represented selling on the open market a 56 percent stake in the company which now, with this IPO has a market cap of C$624.

The company will be traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol THO. The purchase of the silver mine was made from Goldcorp, the world’s second-largest gold producer based on market cap.

Silver prices are topping $18 an ounce currently and gold is shooting past $940. The EU reported that it’s nations saw inflation of 3.6% in month of March making the 15-nation currrency rise to $1.5978 against the dollar. An all-time high!

The dollar also dropped against both the British pound and the Japanese yen. The European Central Bank, in charge of the Euro, unlike the US Fed, will work to curb inflation by not lowering interests rates below 4%.

This IPO, lower interest rates from the Fed, and some people thinking the price of most precious metals is way too high, like gold and silver, makes for a tough market on silver. In one week the price of silver went down nearly 4 dollars a troy ounce. You knew it had to happen sooner or later, the price was just escalating to rapidly.

So what does that mean for your investment strategy? Should you get out too? Well if you bought at $21, I might have to suggest sticking it out, (although don’t take my investment advice, I beg you). But with the recent sell off, and inflation not being helped by lower interest rates (at least I think that’s how it goes) you may see the price of silver climb again.

But don’t bet the house on it, only as much as you can loose.

The following, pulled from an article on Money.com Jon Nadler, a senior analyst at Kitco Bullion Dealers in Montreal

He says it is “not inconceivable” to see gold prices reach $1,000 an ounce before the Federal Reserve meets on March 18, depending on what sort of economic data is released between now and then.

Gold at $1,000 a troy ounce. What then is Silver’s $1k mark? Is it $20, is it $25, or could it even be going to $30!!!

I’ll put my money on silver settling around $22 a troy ounce by the end of the month. That’s almost doubling it’s price in the last 5 months. As the market gets more and more volatile investors will need safer places to put their money, and with the dollar looking weak and continuing on that trend, precious metals just seem like the right place to go.

Now silver, in one day, has surpassed the $18 mark and shot right past $19 reaching $19.30 in around the world trading. We here at Blog Silver definitely believe that the price of silver, per troy ounce, will reach $20 and keep on moving. With the price of gold rising rising and rising with no end in sight, silver just seems like it’ll keep on track with it.

Silver is your way to get into the precious metals market without breaking the bank. And if the gold market is any indication of where the silver market is going, silver is definitely on the rise!

We here at Blog Silver have been tracking silver for a while, and have been very bullish on silver both with the dollar declining, and with China expanding with the rest of the world, silver is looking like an easy way to get into the precious metals market. It might be tough to get into the gold market, with the price of gold being over $900 per ounce, silver is much easier being under $20.

With silver being included in a lot of computer parts, and the rest of the world catching up to America in terms of technological advancements, the world will need a lot of metal to keep up with all those advancements. One of those metals, easy to get into, is silver.

With the economy showing strong signs of not knowing what the heck it wants to do, you’ll begin to people pulling their money out of the stock market and putting it into safer investments. One of those investments, as it has historically been, is precious metals like gold and silver.

With China and other developing nations gobbling up commodities lowering the available supply out there, with ETF’s like SLV making it easier for individual small investors to buy precious metals, one would think the price of silver would rise.

We think it’ll go to $20 soon enough, and if you’re looking for a good play outside of the world of stocks and bonds, you may want to look into buying silver.

The price of silver was enjoying a few days above $16 while the world waited to see what the US economic outlook would bring. It appears investors from the rest of the world, also trading the precious metal silver, couldn’t wait much longer and the price of a Troy ounce has begun to pull back.

It will be interesting to see what the Fed’s news next week, to lower rates or keep them the same will do to the precious metals sector which usually raises with economic downturn or news indicating such. (Chances of the Fed raising rates next week are slim to none)

But it’s true. As America tries to figure out if it’s economy really is in a downturn, or recession even, the dollar will continue to be weaker. This, as it usually does, makes people try and find safer investments for their money while the economy tries to shake out what’s going on.

As has been the case for hundreds if not thousands of years, precious metals hold their value as a medium of exchange. Therefore, people find safety in holding precious metals like silver and thus put more money into them.

If you don’t want to buy silver bars, as sometimes buying large bars of silver and gold can be a bit annoying, you could buy into these through ETF’s like GLD and SLV provided by iShares. These are backed by silver and gold and tend to follow the price of silver and gold pretty closely.

In this time of economic turmoil, you may be able to safeguard your money if you put it into precious metals like silver.

Well if you read this interesting article from money.com you’ll see that some people are doing what they’ve always done when the dollar is down. Invest in gold.

The question now is will silver follow suit? Over the past two weeks it seems as though this is the case. Silver is slowly rising while gold continues to sore to new heights every day.

Be sure to check back regularly to see what our ticker in the upper right hand corner says about the price of silver. We may see some jumps as the dollar declines.