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Indium Price History — Recent 10-Day Base
All prices in ₹ per gram · daily rate, updated once per day
The Story Behind Indium's Price History
Today's indium rate is ₹69.21 per gram, but the more interesting question is what has shaped this market's price behavior over time. Unlike gold or silver, indium's history isn't a story about investment demand, festival buying, or central-bank reserves. It's a story about zinc mines and touchscreen factories — two industries that don't talk to each other, yet both drive this one price.
- Today's price: ₹69.21 per gram (₹69,209.09 per kg)
- Supply driver: byproduct recovery from zinc ore processing
- Demand driver: indium tin oxide (ITO) for touchscreens and displays
That mismatch between what controls supply and what drives demand is the single most useful lens for understanding indium's price history, more useful than any specific number from a past year.
Indium Price History — Value by Weight
Today's Indium rate is Sixty Nine Rupees per gram. At this rate, 10 grams of Indium costs Six Hundred and Ninety Two Rupees.
| Unit | Weight | Price (INR) | Price in Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Gram | 1.0000 g | ₹69.21 | Sixty Nine Rupees |
| 8 Grams | 8.0000 g | ₹553.67 | Five Hundred and Fifty Four Rupees |
| 10 Grams | 10.0000 g | ₹692.09 | Six Hundred and Ninety Two Rupees |
| 100 Grams | 100.0000 g | ₹6,920.91 | Six Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty One Rupees |
| 1 Kilogram | 1,000.0000 g | ₹69,209.09 | Sixty Nine Thousand Two Hundred and Nine Rupees |
| 1 Ounce (oz) | 28.3495 g | ₹1,962.04 | One Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixty Two Rupees |
| 1 Troy Ounce | 31.1035 g | ₹2,152.64 | Two Thousand One Hundred and Fifty Three Rupees |
| 1 Metric Ton | 1,000,000.0000 g | ₹69,209,089.00 | Six Crore Ninety Two Lakh Nine Thousand Eighty Nine Rupees |
A Byproduct Metal's Supply Has Its Own Rhythm
Indium is almost never mined as a primary ore. It comes out of the ground embedded in zinc-bearing ore, and gets recovered during zinc smelting and refining — a process that exists to produce zinc, with indium as a secondary output. That means indium's available supply, historically, has tracked zinc mining and refining capacity far more closely than it has tracked indium's own market signals.
When zinc decisions move an unrelated market
A mining company deciding to expand or scale back zinc output is thinking about zinc prices, zinc demand from galvanizing and construction, and its own zinc-focused economics. Indium supply just comes along for the ride. Over time, that has meant periods where indium availability loosened or tightened for reasons that had nothing to do with how many touchscreens or solar panels were being manufactured that year — a genuinely unusual dynamic compared to most metals people track.
China, South Korea, and Canada have each been real, verifiable centers of indium production and refining, largely as a function of their zinc-processing industries rather than any dedicated indium-mining effort.
Indium Price History — Last 10 Recorded Days
The most recent Indium price on record (2026-09-17) is Sixty Nine Rupees per gram. This is up by Less than One Rupees from the previous day's rate of ₹69.07.
| Date | Price (INR/g) | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-17 | ₹69.21 | +0.14 |
| 2026-09-16 | ₹69.07 | +0.03 |
| 2026-09-15 | ₹69.04 | +0.09 |
| 2026-09-14 | ₹68.95 | +0.11 |
| 2026-09-13 | ₹68.84 | +0.00 |
| 2026-09-12 | ₹68.84 | +0.04 |
| 2026-09-11 | ₹68.80 | -0.04 |
| 2026-09-10 | ₹68.84 | +0.35 |
| 2026-09-09 | ₹68.50 | -0.26 |
| 2026-09-08 | ₹68.76 | — |
What the Longer History Actually Shows
On the demand side, the rise of smartphones, tablets, and flat-panel televisions over the past couple of decades has been the steady engine behind indium tin oxide consumption, since ITO remains the workhorse transparent conductive coating for touchscreens and LCD displays. More recently, thin-film solar panel manufacturing has added a further, genuinely real source of demand growth, even if it remains smaller than the display industry's pull.
Materials researchers have also spent real effort looking for alternatives to ITO — partly for cost reasons, partly for supply-security reasons, given how concentrated and byproduct-dependent indium supply is. That is a legitimate, ongoing industry direction worth watching, though nothing suggests any alternative is close to displacing ITO commercially in the near term.
For the exact recorded figures behind this narrative, rather than a qualitative description, the site's own indium price history page holds real daily and monthly data. This page is meant to explain the mechanics; that one holds the numbers.
Indium Price History — FAQs
The indium price history page holds this site's own recorded daily and monthly data, with real figures rather than a qualitative narrative like this page.
Because indium is almost never mined on its own — it's recovered as a byproduct of zinc ore processing, with smaller amounts from lead and tin processing. Global output has always been constrained by how much zinc gets mined and refined, not by how much indium the electronics industry wants, which is a structurally different setup from a metal that gets mined for its own demand.
Indium tin oxide (ITO) — the transparent conductive coating used in touchscreens and flat-panel LCD displays — has been the dominant demand driver through the growth of smartphones, tablets, and flat-screen televisions. More recently, thin-film solar panel manufacturing has added a further real, if smaller, source of demand.
Not really. Gold and silver carry centuries of investment demand, jewellery buying, and central-bank behavior shaping their price history. Indium's history is shaped almost entirely by industrial factors — zinc-byproduct supply economics on one side, electronics and display manufacturing demand on the other — with no retail investment flow in the mix at all.
That depends on how zinc mining evolves and how electronics manufacturing demand — including any shift toward alternatives to ITO that materials researchers are actively studying — plays out over time. Neither of those is something this page can state with certainty, so any forward-looking view should stay hedged rather than firm.
