I'd Like to find this year or last years average cost of
production for gold and silver (per ounce).

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Clarification of Question by johnjri1-ga on 10 Mar 2005 18:07 PST

I will accept data on just silver instead of gold and silver.  I will
also accept cost of production for three years from top 2
manufacturers of silver as reported in their financial reports or
possibly a source you see better fit.  I'd like your estimate/guess as
to the acuracy of the financial data.  I will tip $0.50 per year if
the data goes back futher than 3 years but can't tip more than $15.00.

Some of the largest producers, the gold and silver is a by product =
Something else produces more profit than the gold and silver. In such
cases the production cost is somewhat a matter of opinion.
Even where the annual sales exceeds a million dollars USA, and the
gold and silver are the principle product; how much previous years
cost and future years cost are included is somewhat a matter of
preference. Accounting practices vary somewhat from country to
country. Likely many small producers do not calculate/reveil the
production cost per once. There is considerable cost that might not be
reguarded as production cost. Production costs are higher in years
that many mines are resuming production after several or many years of
no production.  Neil

average costs are sometimes published for specific mines or even for
specific companies but no reliable data is available for the industry
as a whole.