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Indium Price — 10-Day Trend
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Refining, Not Mining, Is What Actually Counts Here
Ask where a metal "comes from" and most people picture a mine. Indium doesn't really have one — it's recovered almost entirely as a byproduct of zinc ore refining, a structural fact this site's why is indium a byproduct metal page walks through in full. That's exactly why this page tracks refinery output, country by country, rather than mine output: refining is the step that actually turns zinc-processing byproduct into usable indium metal, and it's the meaningful production number for a metal like this one.
Today's indium rate sits at ₹69.22 per gram, September 17, 2026. Converted across the weights buyers deal in:
- Per gram: ₹69.22
- Per 10 grams: ₹692.20
- Per 100 grams: ₹6,922.01
- Per kilogram: ₹69,220.07
Indium Price 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 | ₹69.22 | Sixty Nine Rupees |
| 8 Grams | 8.0000 g | ₹553.76 | Five Hundred and Fifty Four Rupees |
| 10 Grams | 10.0000 g | ₹692.20 | Six Hundred and Ninety Two Rupees |
| 100 Grams | 100.0000 g | ₹6,922.01 | Six Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty Two Rupees |
| 1 Kilogram | 1,000.0000 g | ₹69,220.07 | Sixty Nine Thousand Two Hundred and Twenty Rupees |
| 1 Ounce (oz) | 28.3495 g | ₹1,962.35 | One Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixty Two Rupees |
| 1 Troy Ounce | 31.1035 g | ₹2,152.99 | Two Thousand One Hundred and Fifty Three Rupees |
| 1 Metric Ton | 1,000,000.0000 g | ₹69,220,071.00 | Six Crore Ninety Two Lakh Twenty Thousand Seventy One Rupees |
Where the World's Indium Actually Gets Refined
The table below is built from the U.S. Geological Survey's Mineral Commodity Summaries 2025, indium chapter — final calendar-year 2023 world refinery production, the most recent complete annual dataset USGS had published at the time of writing. Refinery statistics are reported annually, not daily, so treat this as the structural backdrop behind the live price above rather than something that shifts hour to hour.
| Rank | Country | Refinery Production (2023) | Share of World Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  China |
690 tonnes | 67.6% |
| 2 |  South Korea |
180 tonnes | 17.6% |
| 3 |  Japan |
65 tonnes | 6.4% |
| 4 |  Canada |
40 tonnes | 3.9% |
| 5 | France | 21 tonnes | 2.1% |
| — | World total (rounded) | 1,020 tonnes | 100% |
China's refining lead keeps widening
The five countries in that table account for roughly 98% of everything the world refines, with a handful of smaller producers — Belgium, Russia and Uzbekistan among them — splitting what's left. China alone is worth close to two-thirds of world output on its own, and USGS's preliminary estimate for the following year showed that share growing further, with Chinese output rising to an estimated 760 tonnes. South Korea and Japan round out a distant second and third, both leaning heavily on refining imported feedstock and recycled ITO scrap rather than domestic zinc mining.
Canada and France sit further back still, each in the low single digits of world share. Notably absent from any meaningful position: the United States, which USGS reports had no domestic refinery production at all in the years covered here, relying entirely on imports to meet its own indium demand.
Indium Price — Last 10 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 | ₹69.22 | +0.15 |
| 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 This Concentration Means Going Forward
A market this small and this concentrated doesn't behave like copper or aluminium. Total world refinery output runs a little over 1,000 tonnes a year — genuinely thin next to almost any other metal this site tracks — and close to two-thirds of that sits with one country's refining industry. A policy shift, an export restriction, or simply a change in how much zinc China's smelters choose to run in a given year could tighten or loosen indium availability more than most demand-side news ever would. That's not a prediction of what will happen, only a description of how exposed this particular supply chain is.
None of that concentration shows up directly in reserve figures the way it might for a primary-mined metal — indium doesn't carry its own standard ore-reserve number, since its future supply rides on zinc deposits rather than dedicated indium exploration. For the raw historical price numbers behind today's ₹69.22 per gram, this site's indium price history page tracks the year in full.
Indium Producing Countries — FAQs
China, and by a wide margin. USGS figures put Chinese refinery output at roughly 690 tonnes in the most recent full reporting year — close to two-thirds of everything the world refines, more than every other producing country on this page combined.
Not really. Indium is recovered almost entirely as a byproduct of zinc ore refining rather than mined for its own sake — a story this site covers in full on its why is indium a byproduct metal page. That's exactly why this page tracks refinery output country by country instead of mine output: refining, not mining, is the number that actually reflects where usable indium comes from.
Largely from refining imported feedstock and recovering indium from recycled ITO scrap, rather than from domestic zinc mines. South Korea and Japan both run substantial indium-refining and recycling operations that don't depend on having large zinc deposits of their own.
Small next to almost any other metal this site tracks — total world refinery production runs a little over 1,000 tonnes a year, according to USGS. That's a genuinely thin market, and it's a big part of why indium behaves so differently from a bulk industrial metal like zinc or aluminium.
Not in the way gold or copper reserves are. Because indium isn't mined on its own, it doesn't have a standard, separately reported ore-reserve figure the way primary-mined metals do. Its available future supply is tied to zinc reserves and how much indium a given zinc deposit happens to contain, which varies widely from one deposit to the next.
The U.S. Geological Survey's Mineral Commodity Summaries 2025 report (indium chapter), covering final calendar-year 2023 world refinery production — the most recent complete annual dataset USGS had published at the time of writing. USGS also lists a 2024 preliminary estimate showing China's output rising further, to an estimated 760 tonnes, though that figure carries the usual caveats of a preliminary number.
