Run on Physical Gold and Silver - News Roundup

There are too many individual articles about this, so here is a collection (H/T to Ed Steer of Casey Research for most of this):

• 10 Signs The Takedown Of Paper Gold Has Unleashed An Unprecedented Global Run On Physical Gold And Silver
• Texas Precious Metals: "Physical Inventory 'Ugly'"
• Silver American Eagle planchet suppliers elusive
• Price freefall prompts gold rush in China
• ZeroHedge: China Hasn't "Seen This Gold Rush In 20 Years"

Here's a riddle for you: if the price of a commodity has "crashed", but you can't get any of it (and if you can, it's often at a price even greater than before the crash), has the price really "crashed"?