Rhodium Metal DNA™
· Atomic #45 · ₹24,555.39/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.
Rhodium 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.
No reliable dataset for this metal yet — shown honestly as not scored rather than a guessed number.
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
- Rh
- Atomic Number
- 45
- Category
- Precious 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.
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
Rhodium 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.
Rhodium's overall score of 4/100 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 Rhodium price in India today is ₹24,555.39 per gram 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.
