of silver can be expected based on geology and that the gold standard might not work for all nations.In 1892 he wrote Die Zukunft des Silbers which was translated into English by the United States Senate in 1893. By this time his predictions on gold were holding but he pointed out that the government should stock a moderate amount of gold but not declare a gold standard or to fix an exchange ratio between the silver florin and gold coins.

In his work Die Entstehung der Alpen, Suess also introduced the concept of the biosphere,