Silver surpasses $30/ounce to trade at fresh high

``Silver futures topped $30 an ounce, trading at this level for the first time since the 1980s as precious metals rallied Monday on ongoing concerns about Europe's debt woes and talk the U.S. Federal Reserve may provide additional monetary easing.'' -- The metal implicated as a major sleeper factor in the Bear Stearns crash and JP Morgan takeover starts showing its true colors...