What Uses Rhodium?
· ₹25,506.72/g today
The rarest metal tracked on this site, produced almost nowhere on purpose, and priced with a volatility that makes gold look sedate by comparison.
Where Is Rhodium Used?
Real, sourced demand-share figures. Sectors with a full reference page are clickable for the deep breakdown.
A Byproduct, Not a Primary Metal
Almost no mine on Earth digs specifically for rhodium — it comes out as a small byproduct of platinum and palladium mining, overwhelmingly from South Africa. That means rhodium supply barely responds to rhodium's own price at all; miners are digging for platinum group metals as a whole, not rhodium specifically.
One Job: Cleaning Exhaust
Rhodium has essentially one major industrial use — reducing nitrogen oxide emissions inside catalytic converters, in both petrol and diesel vehicles — with almost no jewellery or investment demand to smooth out the swings. That narrow demand base, on top of famously thin supply, is exactly why rhodium prices can move by multiples in a single year.
Scrapped Cars as a Real Second Mine
Because rhodium is so scarce and valuable, recovering it from scrapped catalytic converters has become a genuine secondary supply source in its own right, not just an environmental afterthought — specialist recyclers actively target end-of-life vehicles specifically for their PGM content, and that recovered metal flows back into the same global market as newly mined rhodium.
Did You Know?
Rhodium's price has moved by multiples of its starting value within a single year more than once — a volatility level no other metal on this site comes close to matching.
Frequently Asked Questions
Automotive (Autocatalysts) is the largest identified use, at 85% of demand, followed by Chemical at 9%.
The Rhodium price in India today is ₹25,506.72 per gram as of October 16, 2026. See the live price and chart.
Metal Applications™ is an informational reference built from public data and named sources. See the methodology page for how figures are sourced and confidence-rated.
