For those of you who have some knowledge of the Silver Wheaton Corporation (SLW) you will be aware that the on-going purchase costs are in the order of $3.90/oz. Now, when we look at our mail bag some of our readers have misconstrued this figure as being the total purchase cost. The total purchase cost is made up of this figure of $3.90/oz plus the up front cash price paid to secure the supply of silver plus the running costs of SLW, etc. To get to the true figure we decided to ask SLW for a breakdown of the these costs so what follows is a Q&A via emails between the Silver Wheaton Corporation and Silver-prices.net (read more…)