What is needed is someone like Elon & company to starting mining asteroids. It is more than likely that eventually it will be cheaper than trying to keep chasing every bit of ore on Earth...
It's a matter of when and not if. But it seems miners don't even have to fly outside this planet to find abundant supply of silver which pushes the price down. As a matter of fact, the price growth of silver is rather slow. It took silver more than a decade to reach a new ATH. But that's not an inflation-adjusted price. If we consider inflation, the price has so much catching up to do. We'd have to go back to as late as 1980 for its all time high. That seems to make silver a poor choice as a storage of wealth.
