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Neodymium Reference Rate — 10-Day Trend
All prices in ₹ per gram · daily rate, updated once per day
Two Real Projects Anchor This Whole Story
"Non-China rare earth supply" isn't a hypothetical — it's mostly two specific, operating facilities. Mountain Pass in California, run by MP Materials, and the LAMP separation plant in Kuantan, Malaysia, run by Lynas Rare Earths using ore from its Mount Weld mine in Australia. Today's neodymium reference rate sits at ₹12.41 per gram on September 17, 2026, the commodity both operations feed into.
- Mountain Pass (USA): mining and processing, moving toward full domestic integration including magnets
- Lynas Malaysia (LAMP): widely described as the largest heavy rare earth separation plant outside China
Neodymium Reference Rate by Weight
Today's Neodymium rate is Twelve Rupees per gram. At this rate, 10 grams of Neodymium costs One Hundred and Twenty Four Rupees.
| Unit | Weight | Price (INR) | Price in Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Gram | 1.0000 g | ₹12.41 | Twelve Rupees |
| 8 Grams | 8.0000 g | ₹99.24 | Ninety Nine Rupees |
| 10 Grams | 10.0000 g | ₹124.05 | One Hundred and Twenty Four Rupees |
| 100 Grams | 100.0000 g | ₹1,240.54 | One Thousand Two Hundred and Forty One Rupees |
| 1 Kilogram | 1,000.0000 g | ₹12,405.39 | Twelve Thousand Four Hundred and Five Rupees |
| 1 Ounce (oz) | 28.3495 g | ₹351.69 | Three Hundred and Fifty Two Rupees |
| 1 Troy Ounce | 31.1035 g | ₹385.85 | Three Hundred and Eighty Six Rupees |
| 1 Metric Ton | 1,000,000.0000 g | ₹12,405,389.00 | One Crore Twenty Four Lakh Five Thousand Three Hundred and Eighty Nine Rupees |
Mining Was Never the Hard Part
Rare earth elements aren't geologically rare in most deposits — the genuinely difficult, capital-intensive step is separating them into individually usable, high-purity materials. That's the bottleneck China built out at scale over decades, and it's exactly why Lynas's Malaysian separation plant matters more to this story than any single mine announcement: a country can sit on rare earth-rich ground and still have no way to turn it into magnet-grade material.
MP Materials is chasing full integration, not just mining
MP Materials' stated direction — from shipping raw concentrate to China, toward mining, separating, and eventually manufacturing magnets domestically — reflects that same lesson. Owning the deposit is the easy part of this supply chain; owning the processing and magnet-manufacturing steps is where the real strategic value, and the real difficulty, sits.
| Project | Country | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Mountain Pass (MP Materials) | United States | Mining, separation, moving toward magnet manufacturing |
| Mount Weld + LAMP (Lynas) | Australia (mine), Malaysia (processing) | Largest heavy rare earth separation plant outside China |
Neodymium Reference Rate — Last 10 Days
The most recent Neodymium price on record (2026-09-17) is Twelve Rupees per gram. This is up by Less than One Rupees from the previous day's rate of ₹12.38.
| Date | Price (INR/g) | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-17 | ₹12.41 | +0.02 |
| 2026-09-16 | ₹12.38 | -0.06 |
| 2026-09-15 | ₹12.44 | +0.02 |
| 2026-09-14 | ₹12.42 | +0.02 |
| 2026-09-13 | ₹12.40 | +0.00 |
| 2026-09-12 | ₹12.40 | +0.01 |
| 2026-09-11 | ₹12.40 | -0.01 |
| 2026-09-10 | ₹12.40 | +0.06 |
| 2026-09-09 | ₹12.34 | +0.05 |
| 2026-09-08 | ₹12.30 | — |
Real Progress, Still a Minority Share
It would be honest to call this diversification effort genuine and growing. It would be dishonest to call it a serious rival to China's processing scale yet. Both things are true at once, and any credible read on where neodymium and broader rare earth prices head from here has to hold both facts simultaneously rather than picking whichever one fits a preferred narrative.
The comparison table and 10-day history above track neodymium's own price trend in that context. For a longer view, the site's own neodymium price history page holds real recorded data by year and month.
Non-China Rare Earth Supply — Common Questions
Mountain Pass in California, operated by MP Materials, is the most-cited US rare earth mining and processing site, transitioning from shipping concentrate to China toward a fully integrated domestic supply chain including mining, separation and magnet manufacturing.
Lynas mines rare earth concentrate at Mount Weld in Western Australia and processes it at its LAMP facility in Kuantan, Malaysia — widely described as the largest heavy rare earth separation plant outside China by throughput. It's a real, operating facility, not just a proposed project.
A meaningful but still minority share. Non-Chinese processing capacity has grown genuinely over recent years, but China's processing dominance remains the defining, more widely-discussed feature of this market — describing the alternative capacity as real and growing is accurate; describing it as having closed the gap is not.
Because rare earth elements aren't geologically scarce in most cases — separating and refining them to usable purity is the genuinely difficult, capital-intensive step. A country can have rare earth deposits without having any way to turn them into usable magnet material, which is exactly why processing, not mining, is the bottleneck China dominates most decisively.
That's genuinely uncertain and depends on how quickly new capacity scales relative to demand growth — this page describes the trend factually without predicting an outcome. What's safe to say is that governments in the US, Australia and elsewhere have made real, public commitments toward this goal.
