Silver Reaches Record Price of $97 per Ounce

The assessment is "likely_true" with high confidence based on strong, corroborating evidence from multiple highly authoritative sources. A major precious metals dealer, APMEX, directly reports a nominal all-time high for silver at $96.60. This figure is extremely close to the $97 mentioned in the statement and can be considered equivalent for the purposes of a general claim. This is further supported by a Yahoo Finance article reporting a historic high of over $95 per ounce, and a CNBC report confirming that silver hit a new all-time high around the same time period. There is one significant piece of contradictory evidence from the BBC, which states the record high was over $60 an ounce. However, this single data point is outweighed by the specific and consistent reporting from three other high-authority financial and market sources that all point to a price in the mid-to-high $90s. The BBC article may be referring to a different time frame or contain an error. Other sources are either irrelevant (e.g., focusing on gold or zinc) or are forward-looking forecasts rather than historical records. The overwhelming weight of the most relevant evidence strongly supports the claim that silver's record high is approximately $97 per ounce.