Silver prices hit a new record on Monday, driven by speculative retail-investor activity in China. Interest has been so high that China's only pure-play silver fund has Retail investors in the nation took interest in China's pure-play silver fund last week. The precious metal, still on track for its best year since 1979, hit $84/oz before falling on Monday. It's been a wild few weeks for silver. The precious metal was already on a record-breaking run this year, and recently got a further boost f ...