Its research and production facilities are located in Salt Lake City, Utah; Monterrey, Mexico;China; and Manchester, UK.

In 2001, it launched its website, which is a compendium of information on the elements and advanced materials including properties, uses, safety data, and academic research.

[15] It believes future global rare-earth prices tend to move upward or downward in reaction to China's then-projected GDP (gross domestic product).

He is considered an expert in the fields of rare earths,[20] particularly in the political and economic issues surrounding the global supply chain, and writes and speaks frequently on the subject.

[21][22][23][24] Silver coined the phrases "Innovation Distortion",[25] a description of efforts to avoid the use of a given element solely because of concerns that it may be hoarded by nations with resource control of that material, and the "Environmentalist's Catch-22" to describe the dilemma faced by those who both support a green technology future reliant on solar energy, wind power, electric cars and fuel cells and concurrently oppose the mining of the critical metals from which these technologies are manufactured.

He has made in-kind donations of artwork to the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, DC.