Rhodium Metal Chain™
· ₹24,555.39/g today
From mine to market: how Rhodium moves through the global economy.
Rhodium Metal Chain
Detailed supply-chain mapping is currently being developed for Rhodium. In the meantime, see the metal profile and reserves & production data already available.
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
Country-level production data for Rhodium is not yet available on this page.
The Rhodium price in India today is ₹24,555.39 per gram as of August 28, 2026. See the live price and chart.
Metal Chain™ is an analytical framework developed by MetalsCost. Concentration figures and the current-bottleneck comparison are estimates derived from available public data and a documented methodology — they are not investment advice or a guaranteed forecast. See the methodology page for data sources and calculation details.
