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Gallium Reference Rate — 10-Day Trend
All prices in ₹ per gram · daily rate, updated once per day
Four Steps From Ore to Wafer
Gallium's supply chain doesn't start with a gallium mine, because there isn't one. It starts with bauxite — the ore refined into alumina for the aluminium industry — and gallium rides along as a trace byproduct that has to be deliberately captured, not simply mined. Today's reference rate is ₹22.98 per gram on September 17, 2026, a figure shaped entirely by how that byproduct chain performs.
- Step 1: Bauxite is refined into alumina via the Bayer process
- Step 2: Gallium is extracted from the leftover process liquor
- Step 3: Recovered gallium is purified to industrial or semiconductor grade
- Step 4: Refined gallium becomes gallium arsenide (GaAs) or gallium nitride (GaN) for chip and power-electronics manufacturers
Gallium Reference Rate by Weight
Today's Gallium rate is Twenty Three Rupees per gram. At this rate, 10 grams of Gallium costs Two Hundred and Thirty Rupees.
| Unit | Weight | Price (INR) | Price in Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Gram | 1.0000 g | ₹22.98 | Twenty Three Rupees |
| 8 Grams | 8.0000 g | ₹183.86 | One Hundred and Eighty Four Rupees |
| 10 Grams | 10.0000 g | ₹229.83 | Two Hundred and Thirty Rupees |
| 100 Grams | 100.0000 g | ₹2,298.26 | Two Thousand Two Hundred and Ninety Eight Rupees |
| 1 Kilogram | 1,000.0000 g | ₹22,982.64 | Twenty Two Thousand Nine Hundred and Eighty Three Rupees |
| 1 Ounce (oz) | 28.3495 g | ₹651.55 | Six Hundred and Fifty Two Rupees |
| 1 Troy Ounce | 31.1035 g | ₹714.84 | Seven Hundred and Fifteen Rupees |
| 1 Metric Ton | 1,000,000.0000 g | ₹22,982,641.00 | Two Crore Twenty Nine Lakh Eighty Two Thousand Six Hundred and Forty One Rupees |
The Step Most Refineries Skip Entirely
Here's the detail that explains why supply is concentrated: extracting gallium from alumina process liquor requires dedicated recovery equipment that most of the world's alumina refineries never bothered installing. Chinese refiners built that capacity at scale over years, while Western operations generally didn't — the economics simply didn't justify it when cheap Chinese-refined gallium was readily available.
2023 changed the calculation, not the chain itself
China's 2023 export-licensing controls on gallium didn't alter the physical supply chain described above — bauxite still gets refined into alumina the same way everywhere. What changed is the incentive to install that gallium-recovery step somewhere other than China. Rio Tinto's Quebec refinery and Alcoa's Wagerup project in Western Australia are both real examples of companies now finding that once-uneconomic recovery step worth pursuing.
| Stage | What Happens | Where It's Concentrated |
|---|---|---|
| Ore refining | Bauxite processed into alumina (Bayer process) | Global — many countries |
| Gallium extraction | Trace gallium recovered from alumina liquor | Overwhelmingly China |
| Purification | Refined to industrial or 6N+ semiconductor grade | Overwhelmingly China |
| Semiconductor fabrication | Converted to GaAs or GaN for chips | Global — chip-manufacturing hubs |
Gallium Reference Rate — Last 10 Days
The most recent Gallium price on record (2026-09-17) is Twenty Three Rupees per gram. This is up by Less than One Rupees from the previous day's rate of ₹22.94.
| Date | Price (INR/g) | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-17 | ₹22.98 | +0.05 |
| 2026-09-16 | ₹22.94 | +0.01 |
| 2026-09-15 | ₹22.93 | +0.03 |
| 2026-09-14 | ₹22.90 | -0.16 |
| 2026-09-13 | ₹23.06 | +0.00 |
| 2026-09-12 | ₹23.06 | +0.01 |
| 2026-09-11 | ₹23.04 | -0.01 |
| 2026-09-10 | ₹23.06 | +0.12 |
| 2026-09-09 | ₹22.94 | +0.09 |
| 2026-09-08 | ₹22.85 | — |
What This Structure Means for Price and Supply Security
A supply chain this concentrated at the extraction-and-purification stage is inherently more exposed to a single country's policy decisions than a metal with dozens of dedicated mines spread across continents. That's not a prediction of what happens next — it's simply the structural reality behind why gallium supply security gets discussed alongside rare earths and other genuinely concentrated critical minerals.
The comparison table and 10-day history above track how that structure translates into day-to-day price movement. For a longer view, the site's own gallium price history page holds real recorded figures by year and month.
Gallium Supply Chain — Common Questions
Bauxite ore is refined into alumina via the Bayer process; gallium, present in trace concentrations, gets extracted from the liquor left over during that refining; the recovered gallium is then purified to the level a buyer needs — industrial grade or, with considerably more refining, semiconductor grade above 99.9999% purity.
China refines the overwhelming majority of the world's gallium, largely because it built the specialized extraction and purification capacity at scale while Western alumina refiners generally didn't bother installing gallium-recovery circuits — until 2023's export controls made the economics of alternative supply look different.
No. A refinery has to specifically install gallium-recovery equipment to capture it from the process liquor; without that added step, the gallium present in the bauxite simply doesn't get separated out and is lost. Most of the world's alumina refineries have never installed this equipment.
Zinc ore processing is gallium's secondary source, smaller than the bauxite/alumina route but still real. The same basic principle applies — gallium shows up as a trace byproduct, and a producer needs dedicated recovery capability to capture it rather than let it pass through untouched.
Refined gallium moves to compound-semiconductor manufacturers who combine it with arsenic to make gallium arsenide (GaAs) or with nitrogen to make gallium nitride (GaN), the two materials behind most of gallium's modern demand, before those wafers or devices go on to electronics and power-component makers.
