Aluminium Metal DNA™
· Atomic #13 · ₹280.43/kg today
The metal you can't make without enormous amounts of electricity first — which is why where aluminium gets smelted has almost as much to do with power prices as with ore deposits.
Aluminium DNA Profile
Each dimension below is either computed live from data this site already tracks, or a manually researched figure with its own source — see how these are calculated.
How is this calculated?
Computed from the 30-day price change already stored in this site's own price history: score = 50 + (30-day % change × 2), clamped to 0–100. A metal flat over 30 days scores 50; every 1% of 30-day move shifts the score 2 points either way.
How is this calculated?
The standard deviation of daily % price changes over the last 10 trading days, scaled ×20 and clamped to 0–100. A purely descriptive measure of recent swing size, not a positive or negative signal on its own.
How is this calculated?
The single largest producing country's share of reported global production (excluding the "Other countries" residual bucket), taken directly from the USGS-sourced figures already powering /metal-reserves. Higher = more concentrated in one country.
No reliable dataset for this metal yet — shown honestly as not scored rather than a guessed number.
How is this calculated?
Summed reported reserves ÷ summed reported annual production, across only the countries USGS reports both figures for (same commodity, same units — never summed across commodities). Scaled: 40+ years of reserve life scores 100, scaled down linearly below that.
No reliable dataset for this metal yet — shown honestly as not scored rather than a guessed number.
How is this calculated?
Manually researched from each metal's primary industry association (see each metal's Sources section) — not computed. Scored as 100 minus the largest single demand sector's share of total demand, so a metal with no single dominant buyer group scores higher than one dependent on one sector.
No reliable dataset for this metal yet — shown honestly as not scored rather than a guessed number.
Scientific Identity
- Symbol
- Al
- Atomic Number
- 13
- Category
- Industrial Metals
Source: IUPAC Periodic Table of the Elements. Further physical/chemical properties (density, melting point, electron configuration) are planned for a future update — not shown until individually verified per metal.
The Most Energy-Hungry Metal in This List
Smelting alumina into aluminium metal consumes vast amounts of electricity, which is why smelters cluster around cheap, reliable power — Canada's hydroelectric-rich Quebec being a textbook example — rather than simply near the bauxite mines themselves.
From Bauxite to Beverage Can
Australia mines huge volumes of bauxite ore and refines much of it into alumina before it's ever smelted into metal, while India's own aluminium industry (Hindalco, NALCO) has grown into one of the world's larger producers in its own right — two very different points on the same supply chain.
Recycling Skips the Expensive Part Entirely
Recycling aluminium takes around 5% of the energy needed to produce virgin metal from bauxite ore, because it skips the electricity-intensive smelting step described above entirely — which is exactly why used cans and scrap carry real economic value and get collected and remelted at unusually high rates worldwide, unlike many other packaging materials that end up as pure waste.
Did You Know?
Aluminium is lighter than steel by roughly two-thirds for a given volume, which is the entire reason automakers and aircraft manufacturers keep switching to it despite steel usually being cheaper.
Frequently Asked Questions
Aluminium Metal DNA™ is MetalsCost's intelligence profile combining scientific identity with market, supply and demand indicators — each indicator is either computed from this site's own stored price and reserves data, or a manually researched, cited figure. See the methodology page for exactly how.
Aluminium's overall score of 32/100 is a simple average of the individual dimensions currently scored for it below — click any dimension's "Why?" for its exact formula and source.
The Aluminium price in India today is ₹280.43 per kilogram as of August 28, 2026. See the live price and chart.
MetalsCost Metal DNA™ is an informational and analytical indicator. It is not investment advice, a price target, or a recommendation to buy or sell any commodity or financial instrument. See the methodology page for data sources and calculation details.
