top producers

We're in the heat of a gold rush, but not all that glitters is gold: some of it is silver. And like that of most precious metals these days, the price of silver has been on the rise: up nearly 17% in the past month alone and currently at its highest since 1980.

In this interactive infographic, we look at the world's top producers of silver and at how global production and the price of silver have changed in the past century.

Rumors fly left and right.

Google is buying the AOL news division once Time Warner does it's little breakup. Microsoft is buying Yahoo, or, post-no-go, now, it's Apple is buying Yahoo.

Lots of rumors.

How do these things potentially impact photographers?