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Indium Price — 10-Day Trend
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Two Byproduct Metals, Two Very Different Jobs
Indium and gallium get lumped together a lot, and it's easy to see why. Neither is mined as a primary ore, both are essential to modern electronics manufacturing, and both carry the same "critical minerals" label in supply-chain discussions. Today's indium rate is ₹69.21 per gram — for gallium's own live number, the site's gallium price page tracks that separately.
But once you look past the shared "byproduct metal" label, indium and gallium do genuinely different jobs in the electronics world.
- Indium: recovered from zinc ore processing; dominant use is indium tin oxide (ITO) for touchscreens and displays
- Gallium: recovered mainly from bauxite/alumina processing (plus some zinc processing); dominant uses center on gallium arsenide (GaAs) and gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductors
- Shared trait: neither has a retail bullion market — both trade as industrial, business-to-business commodities
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 | ₹69.21 | 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 |
Where Each Metal Actually Ends Up
Indium's story runs through glass and film. As indium tin oxide, it becomes the transparent conductive coating on touchscreens and flat-panel LCD displays — the layer that lets a screen sense your finger while staying see-through — and it's increasingly finding a second home in thin-film solar panel manufacturing. If you're holding a smartphone or looking at a laptop screen right now, there's a real chance a thin ITO layer, and therefore some indium, sits inside that glass.
Gallium's story runs through the chip itself
Gallium takes a different path entirely. Combined with arsenic to form gallium arsenide, or with nitrogen to form gallium nitride, it becomes the semiconductor material at the heart of radio-frequency chips (the kind used in mobile networks and satellite communication), high-efficiency power electronics, and certain LED and laser applications. Where indium coats the surface of a display, gallium compounds often are the active chip material doing the actual electronic work.
That's the real distinction worth remembering: indium is largely a coatings-and-displays story, while gallium is largely a semiconductor-materials story. They show up in overlapping products — the same smartphone might contain both — but for completely different technical reasons.
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 | ₹69.21 | +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 | — |
Why Both Get Grouped as Supply-Risk Metals
The reason indium and gallium keep appearing together in critical-minerals discussions comes back to their shared byproduct structure. Neither metal's supply responds directly to its own price or demand. Indium output rides on zinc mining and refining decisions; gallium output rides mainly on bauxite and alumina refining decisions, since that is the aluminium industry's own raw-material chain, with a smaller contribution from zinc processing too. If the host industry — zinc mining for one, aluminium refining for the other — changes its output for reasons that have nothing to do with electronics demand, the byproduct supply moves regardless.
China, along with South Korea and Canada for indium, plays a real, verifiable role in refining and producing both of these metals. That geographic concentration, layered on top of the byproduct-supply structure, is exactly why policymakers and electronics manufacturers alike watch both markets closely, even though the metals themselves serve such different technical purposes.
For a deeper look at either side of this comparison, the site's own what is indium used for and what is gallium used for pages go further into each metal's demand story individually.
Indium vs Gallium — FAQs
Both are recovered mainly as byproducts rather than mined for their own sake — indium from zinc ore processing, gallium from bauxite (aluminium ore) processing and, to a lesser extent, zinc processing too. Both are also central to modern electronics, and neither has a retail bullion market the way gold or silver does.
The end use. Indium's dominant application is indium tin oxide (ITO), a transparent conductive coating used in touchscreens, flat-panel LCD displays, and increasingly thin-film solar panels. Gallium's major applications center on compound semiconductors — gallium arsenide (GaAs) and gallium nitride (GaN) — used in chips for radio-frequency, power electronics, and LED applications. They serve overlapping industries but genuinely different technical jobs.
This page tracks indium specifically, currently ₹69.21 per gram. For a live gallium comparison, see the site's gallium price page directly — both are niche, thinly-traded specialty metals, and relative pricing between them shifts with their own separate supply and demand conditions rather than moving together.
No, not directly. Indium rides along with zinc processing. Gallium rides along mainly with bauxite/alumina refining (the aluminium supply chain), with some also recovered from zinc processing. They share the same broad category — byproduct critical minerals tied to a bigger, unrelated metal's mining industry — without sharing the same specific supply chain.
Because neither is mined for its own demand, output for both depends on decisions made in a completely different industry — zinc mining for indium, aluminium/bauxite refining for gallium. If the host industry's economics change, byproduct output can shift regardless of how much the electronics industry actually wants that year, which is a structurally fragile setup for supply planning.
