itsonlymuni the SLV ETF was drained of 2.0 Million oz of silver on Nov.23rd. Sprott claims shorts had to cover 400 million oz of silver. On Dec. 6th SD Bullion claimed a UK Fund manager was seeking to buy 20 metric tons of gold in bar form which smashed prices. http://www.silverdoctors.com/gold-silver-regain-1700-33-on-rumor-of-large-physical-gold-order/ Another good article claiming billions of paper selling: Whistleblower - $3.5 Billion Of Paper Used To Smash Gold Price http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=82668060 Mining Mania Board Hope the links work been having problems with my browser all morning.