The US Mint just declared a temporary sell out of 2019 Silver Eagle Coins effective immediately February 21, 2019.

Silver coin price premiums on Silver Eagle Coins as a result are inching higher above the fluctuating silver spot price given that the US Mint was ambiguous about when new Silver Eagle Coin supplies will return to market.

How long might this latest Silver Eagle Coin sell out last?

Who should we ask?

The following gold mining data covers total tonnes of gold mined per country in 2016. One tonne of gold is equivalent to 32,150.7 troy ounces of gold.

Physical gold is mined on every continent other than Antartica. On Earth, the largest amounts of gold are found in the oceans - but extracting gold from seawater is not yet profitable or feasible.

Come see Where Gold is Mined and found throughout this mostly water covered, floating space rock we all reside upon.

Born in the explostion of stars, the element of gold is indestructible.

There is no known natural substance that can destroy gold. Although gold can be dissolved by chemical means, even then it remains as gold-only in a more widely dispersed state. 

Come see an example of how gold cannot be detroyed and remains almost infinitely maluable in this real life example.

Here we examine how much gold does the US have, as well where each portion of Official US Gold Reserves are held throughout the United States.

Come see how much official gold the US claims (#1 in the world) and where in the nation it is held and at what low official price.

Listen to what the current US President said in 2016 about who has the gold and the slim potential of a Gold Standard return.

This Top 10 Bullion Product video playlist series is dedicated to the best bullion products based on our customer’s purchase volumes.

As one of the largest high volume bullion dealers in the United States the following top 10 list of best bullion products to buy is based on our internal sales volume data.

Much will of course depend on your personal buying and selling objectives.

Here we will count down the list from #10 to number #1, including insightful reasons to why bullion buyers choose specific products we are about to show you.

Late last week, SD Bullion's James Anderson spoke with Eliie from youtube channel Urban Lifestyle, covering some basics on online bullion dealing. 

What does James do at SD Bullion? What does he stack (silver or gold)? How did he get involved in the bullion industry?

Come learn more about how SD Bullion operates its business and why payment policies in our industry are different than other industries.

There has been a long running claim that the total amount of physical platinum the world has ever mined would fit into an average living room or garage.

Here we examine various long range data sources, to best estimate how much platinum is indeed in the world and if this long running “all platinum could find into an average garage” claim is true or not.

Have a look at the latest update to which fiat currency currently has the largest Official Gold Reserve 'backing'.

Westerners might be surprised to learn that the Russian Ruble has the largest pile of Official gold to fiat currency cash in their financial system.

Let us break down the numbers, so you can see at what US dollar gold price per troy ounce it would take to back various fiat currencies today.

The Dow Silver Ratio helps investors understand US stock market vs silver bullion values with long term historic perspective.

Here we examine long duration Dow Silver Ratio charts, but also where the value of silver may peak someday vs US stock values according to the past bullion bull markets.

Come see the ongoing cycle of this precious commodity's value versus failing and income producing publically traded enterprises.

The density of pure silver is 10.5 grams per cubic centimeters at 68 °F or 20 °C.

Come see how this can apply to your silver stack in a real world application.

Learn how to test the authenticity of silver coins, rounds, and bullion bars using the density of silver and the specific gravity test.

Rare to get such a granular insight into the high volume physical bullion industry.

This past Friday at 6PM eastern, management heads at SD Bullion sat down with the Salivate Metals youtube channel community to answer questions about the SD Bullion company, how it all started, and a behind the scenes look inside the precious metals industry.

Below is the interview in full, recorded on January 18, 2019.

Warren Buffett and his consistently ignorant remarks revolving around gold are often trumpeted by stock and bond market cheerleaders.

But little known is that Warren Buffett was a record sized Silver Bullion stacker beginning in 1997.

Here we cover a deeper dig into the details of this 129.7 million ounce silver bullion position, it’s buy sell trade timeline, how it blew out silver lease rates to 75% in 1998, and the ugly alleged details surrounding the 2006 sale of said record sized silver hoard.

We humans have been mining silver for over 5,000 years. 

Unlike gold, silver has not often been too costly to either lose or aggregately waste trace supplies of it in cumulative large un-recycled amounts.

In other words, often we humans have thrown silver away in non-recycled trace amounts used industrial or electronic applications. Take a look at just how many things, use physical silver today.

Every 50 years over the last century and a half, market forces have given the US government a full gold accounting by her Official US Gold Reserves.

The following is a similar gold accounting for runaway deficit spending which occurred beginning with the US Civil War through the late 1870s. The original greenback fiat currency was born during the United States Civil War period in the 1860s. It was used by the United States' Union to finance the Civil War effort as they ran out of gold bullion specie coin. Here we examine how that fiat currency performed: greenbacks vs gold dollars.

In this historic episode, gold dollar coins did the accounting work for fiat greenback notes. While silver was demonetized ajusting this monetary assistance for many decades to follow.

To sell your silver bullion online is about as easy a process as buying it online.

Yet there are some additional steps and processes to understand for silver selling safety and success.

Here we cover some Do’s and Don'ts, including other best practices to sell silver bullion online. Like how to safely ship silver bullion in the USA as well as how to yield the best prices and find trustworthy counterparties to sell silver bullion to.

The question of if precious metals have a place in one's investment portfolio is an eternal debate.

But an equally important yet often-overlooked question is "How much gold and silver allocation" makes sense today?

Looking back at all the videos and presentations on Gold in the year 2018, we remain convinced this one by Grant Williams of Real Vision in late 2018 was the most profound.

See and learn why returning to the fiscal discipline that a monetary gold anchor requires, may not be such a bad thing for the masses.

Thinking about buying bullion in 2019?

Here we give you our Top 10 reasons why to buy silver bullion or gold bullion this year.

All fiat currencies eventually fail.

Bullion is virtually indestructible. Fiat currency when given enough time, becomes worthless.

Even after the debt driven 2008 financial crisis, we continually reach new record debt levels worldwide year after year.

To conclude the first quarter of 2018, the Institute of International Finance (IIF) published another alarming print on the growing record levels of global debt building (now over $247 trillion USD in total).

The next global monetary system is now becoming due.

Over the last 500 years of record history, global reserve currencies and monetary systems often have and do change. Our dominate fully fiat US dollar standard began taking full effect after further 1973 US dollar devaluations.