The dinosaurs at the LBMA finally published their monthly vault stock total for the month of June. The LBMA's free float is has shrunk ~14.2 mtoz (~441.7 tonnes), slightly exceeding the net increases to the COMEX and SGE/SFE for the month. The total global free float silver stock across the COMEX, SFE/SGE and LBMA at end June/start July is ~630.925 mtoz ( 3.57 mtoz less than at end of last month).
As a reminder, per the latest COT report, as of June 24, there were 152,545 short contracts on the COMEX representing the sale of 762,725,000 troy ounces (23,723.4 metric tons) of silver. COMEX has sold ~131.8 mtoz (~4099 tonnes) more paper silver than currently exists as free float in global vaults.