Right now there is a silver shortage due to paper silver contracts and excessive shorting. Silver might continue to up for a while and then stabilize or even go down some. Basin Gulch won't come in as a large mine for 3 years even if they begin small scale mining this year. There's still plenty of time left for silver to go up. I would think that DGRI will only mine enough silver to cover the shortage to keep the price up. However, the US could again stockpile silver so DGRI could produce a surplus without affecting the price.