Gold ₹15,300.41/g ▲ +0.00% Silver ₹234.96/g ▲ +0.00% Platinum ₹5,525.53/g ▲ +0.00% Palladium ₹3,989.79/g ▲ +0.00% Rhodium ₹27,523.29/g ▲ +0.00% Copper ₹1,251.28/kg ▼ -0.06% Aluminium ₹283.49/kg ▲ +0.00% Cobalt ₹3,741.43/kg ▲ +0.00% Gallium ₹23,056.28/kg ▲ +0.00% Indium ₹68,844.11/kg ▲ +0.00% Iron Ore ₹8.54/kg ▲ +0.00% Lead ₹164.93/kg ▲ +0.00% Lithium ₹1,847.75/kg ▲ +0.00% Molybdenum ₹8,020.99/kg ▲ +0.00% Nickel ₹1,438.04/kg ▲ +0.23% Neodymium ₹12,404.92/kg ▲ +0.00% Tin ₹4,735.07/kg ▲ +0.00% Tellurium ₹10,359.09/kg ▲ +0.00% Uranium ₹17,221.07/kg ▲ +0.00% Zinc ₹336.30/kg ▲ +0.05% Crude Oil (Brent) ₹9,991.88/bbl ▲ +0.00% Crude Oil (WTI) ₹9,557.99/bbl ▲ +0.00% Gasoline ₹316.92/gal ▲ +0.00% Natural Gas ₹269.93/MMBtu ▲ +0.00%

Industry

Metal Smelting

The industrial process of extracting refined metal from ore or concentrate using heat and chemical reduction, the processing step between mining and finished metal products.

Covered in 1 MetalsCost.com News Intelligence article, most recently on September 10, 2026.

Coverage

Copper's Record Rally Is Squeezing Smelters as Treatment Charges Turn Sharply Negative, Industry Body Says

Negative treatment and refining charges mean smelters are now effectively paying to process concentrate rather than earning a fee for it, directly compressing margins on the processing step of the copper supply chain.

Bullish · 3 days ago