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Much, much, much more silver.

The rarer something is, generally the more expensive or precious it is.

Since silver is fairly abundant, its price (early 2015) is about $20 per Troy ounce. Gold is fairly rare, its current price is ~$1200 an ounce.

That gold is 600 times more expensive than silver has everything to do with its rarity. If silver were more rare than gold, then silver would be several hundred times more expensive than gold.

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