Gold ₹15,311.34/g ▲ +0.00% Silver ₹236.89/g ▲ +0.00% Platinum ₹5,537.88/g ▲ +0.04% Palladium ₹4,220.96/g ▲ +0.00% Rhodium ₹26,010.52/g ▼ -0.79% Copper ₹1,259.30/kg ▼ -0.03% Aluminium ₹282.80/kg ▲ +0.00% Cobalt ₹4,360.50/kg ▲ +0.00% Gallium ₹22,890.30/kg ▲ +0.00% Indium ₹68,478.55/kg ▲ +0.00% Iron Ore ₹8.57/kg ▲ +0.00% Lead ₹164.18/kg ▲ +0.00% Lithium ₹1,949.20/kg ▲ +0.00% Molybdenum ₹7,918.63/kg ▲ +0.00% Nickel ₹1,444.38/kg ▼ -0.14% Neodymium ₹12,246.62/kg ▲ +0.00% Tin ₹4,692.72/kg ▲ +0.00% Tellurium ₹10,226.90/kg ▲ +0.00% Uranium ₹16,991.38/kg ▲ +0.00% Zinc ₹338.12/kg ▲ +0.00% Crude Oil (Brent) ₹9,066.85/bbl ▲ +0.00% Crude Oil (WTI) ₹8,613.26/bbl ▼ -0.02% Gasoline ₹302.62/gal ▲ +0.00% Natural Gas ₹277.52/MMBtu ▲ +0.00%

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11 exchanges and price-reporting bodies that the world's metal prices — including the ones on this site — are ultimately built from. A reference market, in plain terms, is simply whichever venue's number the rest of the industry actually quotes: a jeweller in Chennai and a smelter in Rotterdam both end up pricing off one of the venues below, not inventing a figure of their own. MetalsCost tracks this particular set because together they cover every metal this site prices — the London Metal Exchange's six base metals, gold and silver through COMEX and LBMA, platinum and palladium through LPPM, India's own MCX, and the specialist price-reporting agencies that step in for metals too thinly traded for a listed futures contract.

Weekly Trading-Window Hours

Hours open per week, computed from each exchange's own published schedule. LBMA and LPPM are excluded — they run twice-daily benchmark fixings, not a continuous trading session, so "hours open" doesn't apply the same way.

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Market Country Type Trading Hours Impact
LME United Kingdom Physical & futures exchange Mon–Fri, 1:30 PM – 10:00 PM IST ★★★★★
COMEX United States Futures & options exchange Weekly open Mon 6:30 AM IST, near-continuous with a daily 3:30–4:30 AM IST break, weekly close Sat 3:30 AM IST ★★★★★
LBMA United Kingdom Over-the-counter (OTC) bullion market Mon–Fri, 1:30 PM – 10:00 PM IST ★★★★★
LPPM United Kingdom Over-the-counter (OTC) bullion market Mon–Fri, 1:30 PM – 10:00 PM IST ★★★★★
SHFE China Futures exchange Mon–Fri, 6:30 AM – 12:30 PM IST (trading is actually split across a morning and an evening session in China local time) ★★★★★
SGE China Physical spot exchange Mon–Fri, 6:30 AM – 12:30 PM IST ★★★★★
SGX Singapore Derivatives exchange (index-settled) Mon–Fri, 6:30 AM – 2:30 PM IST ★★★★☆
MCX India Futures exchange Mon–Fri, 9:00 AM – 11:30 PM IST ★★★★☆
Fastmarkets Global (HQ London) Price-reporting agency (benchmark assessments, not a trading venue) Publishes benchmark price assessments during European business hours — no continuous trading session ★★★★☆
Asian Metal China Price-reporting agency (benchmark assessments, not a trading venue) Approx. Mon–Fri, 6:30 AM – 2:30 PM IST — assessments published through the trading day ★★★☆☆
UxC / TradeTech USA Uranium market-intelligence firms (benchmark price indicators) Weekly or daily benchmark publication — no continuous trading session ★★★★☆