Zinc Profile
· ₹314.62/kg today · Live chart →
The unglamorous metal standing between a steel beam and rust — one of the six original London Metal Exchange metals, and quietly one of India's own mining success stories.
LME
SHFE
MCXWhere Zinc Is Produced & Consumed
Among this site's tracked countries:
Notable producers
Major consumers
Galvanizing Is the Story
Coating steel in zinc — galvanizing — is by far the largest use of the metal, protecting everything from construction rebar to car bodies and highway guardrails from rust; it's a slow, unglamorous demand driver that tracks construction and infrastructure spending far more than it tracks headlines.
India's Quiet Zinc Giant
Hindustan Zinc is one of the world's largest zinc-silver producers, giving India a genuine domestic production base for a metal it also consumes heavily for its own construction and infrastructure sector — a rarer case on this site of one tracked country being a serious producer and a serious consumer of the same metal at once.
Did You Know?
Zinc has been traded on the London Metal Exchange since its earliest days in the 1870s, one of the original six base metals the LME was built around.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Zinc price in India today is ₹314.62 per kilogram as of August 4, 2026. See the live price and chart for the full 10-day trend.
Zinc is bought mainly by steel galvanizers (construction, automotive, infrastructure), die-casting alloy makers (zinc-aluminium alloys for auto parts and hardware), and brass producers, with a smaller slice going to zinc-based batteries.
Among the countries tracked on this site, China, Australia, India, Mexico are notable producers, while China, India, USA, Germany are among the largest consumers.
Zinc is tracked on LME, SHFE, MCX — see each exchange's market profile for how it actually works.
