Argentina Metal Prices Today
Prices in Pesos (ARS) · Reference market: Closed COMEX
Part of the "Lithium Triangle" that holds most of the world's known lithium reserves — and a case study in how extreme inflation distorts local-currency prices.
Gold Price — Last 30 Days
Sitting on the World's Battery Metal
Argentina, alongside Chile and Bolivia, holds a huge share of the world's known lithium reserves in salt-flat brine deposits — positioning it as a potentially major supplier as electric-vehicle battery demand keeps growing, even though production is still ramping up relative to that potential.
When Inflation Outpaces the Metal
Argentina's peso has experienced some of the most severe inflation of any economy tracked on this site, which means ARS-denominated price changes here can look enormous purely from currency depreciation — genuinely one of the more volatile currencies in this dataset, independent of what global metal prices are doing.
Copper Is the Quieter Second Act
Lithium gets the headlines, but Argentina's mining sector has also been working to revive large-scale copper mining after decades where underinvestment and permitting delays kept major deposits undeveloped — a slower-moving story than lithium's, but one that could give Argentina a genuine second major metal export alongside the brine-based battery-metal industry it's better known for today.
Metals & Mining Industry
Beyond lithium and the copper projects still working through permitting, Argentina already runs a real gold-mining sector. Veladero, in San Juan province and operated by Barrick, and Cerro Vanguardia, run by AngloGold Ashanti, are established, large-scale gold operations rather than exploration projects — Argentina has produced meaningful gold output for years without it getting nearly the attention lithium does. San Juan and Santa Cruz provinces carry most of the country's active large-scale mining, while much of Argentina's broader mineral potential outside lithium remains genuinely underexplored compared with neighbouring Chile.
Consumption & Trade
Argentina's own metal consumption is modest next to its production potential — the economy leans heavily on agriculture, and manufacturing is smaller than in Brazil or Mexico, though automakers including Ford, Toyota and Volkswagen do assemble vehicles domestically and pull in imported steel and aluminium components to do it. On the export side, lithium carbonate is Argentina's fastest-growing metals export, shipped mostly to battery makers in Asia, while copper concentrate exports are poised to grow sharply if projects like Josemaría and Los Azules move into production. For now, Argentina exports far more raw and semi-processed metal than it consumes domestically.
Metals Produced & Consumed Here
Which of this site's tracked metals Argentina is a notable producer or consumer of, based on each metal's own profile.
Did You Know?
A metal price shown here in Argentine pesos can move by double-digit percentages in a single day almost entirely because of the currency, not the metal — a pattern this site's own data has directly confirmed.
Sources
- Veladero operated by Barrick — Veladero (2025)
- Cerro Vanguardia run by AngloGold Ashanti — AngloGold Ashanti annual filings (2024)
Frequently Asked Questions
The gold price in Argentina today is AR$213,157.30 per gram as of September 21, 2026, converted from the live international spot rate into ARS.
Argentina isn't yet a major producer at scale, but it holds some of the world's largest known lithium reserves as part of South America's "Lithium Triangle".
Prices for Argentina are shown in Pesos (ARS), converted daily from live international spot rates — not a fixed or manually-updated exchange rate.
COMEX (Commodity Exchange, Inc.) is the nearest tracked reference market for Argentina. This doesn't mean prices on this site are sourced directly from it — see its market profile for how it actually works.
