01 Feb 2021 / 19:27 H.
* Silver price leaps more than 11% to highest since 2013
* Bullion dealers battling to satisfy demand
* Silver mining stocks surge in Australia, China (Adds views from analysts, background)
By Tom Westbrook and Thyagaraju Adinarayan
SINGAPORE, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Silver broke above $30 an ounce for the first time since 2013 on Monday as an army of retail traders stormed into the metal after betting billions of dollars on stocks last week, triggering risks of a multi-asset melt-up in global markets.
Organised in online forums and traded with fee-free brokers such as Robinhood, small-time investors have driven a 1,600% rally in the shares of video game retailer GameStop, scooping up assets big fund managers had bet against.