A White Metals Christmas: Silver and Platinum Take Centre Stage

Hello and welcome to Goldbank Insider. Today we’re covering the “white metals” story heading into year-end 2025: silver and platinum. This is market commentary, not financial advice.

The Royal Mint notes that silver has had a strong 2025 and has been pressing towards a major psychological level in GBP terms, while platinum has surged since mid-2025 and picked up pace again in December. In short: gold may be the headline metal most weeks, but silver and platinum have been stealing the spotlight lately.

Silver first.

Silver sits in 2 worlds: it’s a precious metal investors use for diversification, and an industrial metal tied to long-term tech and energy trends. The Royal Mint highlights a few drivers. One is policy: silver being added to the US Cr ...