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Tellurium Reference Rate — 10-Day Trend
All prices in ₹ per gram · daily rate, updated once per day
The First Thing to Understand: There's No Tellurium Bullion Market
Anyone arriving at "how to invest in tellurium" expecting a coin-and-bar option like gold or silver needs to reset that expectation immediately. There is no tellurium ETF, no tellurium coin, and nothing you can hold in your hand as an investment. It trades in very small volumes as a specialty industrial material, changing hands between copper refiners, chemical processors and solar-panel manufacturers — not through anything resembling a retail bullion counter.
Today's reference rate on this page, ₹10.43 per gram, tracks that specialty industrial market — not a retail investment product. That distinction matters enormously for anyone trying to actually put money to work in this space.
- Physical tellurium: not a viable retail investment — no bullion market exists
- Copper mining/refining company shares: the closest indirect proxy, though tellurium is a minor side stream for them
- CdTe solar manufacturer shares: exposure to the demand side, diluted by everything else those companies do
Tellurium Reference Rate by Weight
Today's Tellurium rate is Ten Rupees per gram. At this rate, 10 grams of Tellurium costs One Hundred and Four Rupees.
| Unit | Weight | Price (INR) | Price in Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Gram | 1.0000 g | ₹10.43 | Ten Rupees |
| 8 Grams | 8.0000 g | ₹83.42 | Eighty Three Rupees |
| 10 Grams | 10.0000 g | ₹104.27 | One Hundred and Four Rupees |
| 100 Grams | 100.0000 g | ₹1,042.71 | One Thousand Forty Three Rupees |
| 1 Kilogram | 1,000.0000 g | ₹10,427.07 | Ten Thousand Four Hundred and Twenty Seven Rupees |
| 1 Ounce (oz) | 28.3495 g | ₹295.60 | Two Hundred and Ninety Six Rupees |
| 1 Troy Ounce | 31.1035 g | ₹324.32 | Three Hundred and Twenty Four Rupees |
| 1 Metric Ton | 1,000,000.0000 g | ₹10,427,067.00 | One Crore Four Lakh Twenty Seven Thousand Sixty Seven Rupees |
The Real, Indirect Routes to Tellurium Exposure
Since owning the material itself isn't realistic, anyone interested in the tellurium story is really choosing between two indirect angles. The first is copper mining and refining companies — since tellurium is recovered from the anode slimes generated during electrolytic copper refining, a copper company's fortunes and refining choices sit upstream of tellurium supply. The second is solar-panel manufacturers built around cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film technology, First Solar being the best-known real example, which sit downstream on the demand side.
Why neither proxy is a clean substitute
It's worth being honest about a trade-off here: neither proxy gives you anything close to a pure tellurium bet. A copper company's stock price is driven overwhelmingly by copper output, costs, debt and broader market sentiment — tellurium recovery is a small side stream even for refiners that bother running it. A solar manufacturer's stock reflects its entire panel business, financing structure and competitive position against silicon-panel makers, with tellurium supply cost being just one input among many.
That gap between "the commodity" and "a company that touches the commodity" is wider for tellurium than it is for almost any other metal this site tracks, precisely because tellurium is such a small side stream of a much bigger business on both the supply and demand side.
Tellurium Reference Rate — Last 10 Days
The most recent Tellurium price on record (2026-09-17) is Ten Rupees per gram. This is up by Less than One Rupees from the previous day's rate of ₹10.39.
| Date | Price (INR/g) | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-17 | ₹10.43 | +0.03 |
| 2026-09-16 | ₹10.39 | +0.00 |
| 2026-09-15 | ₹10.39 | +0.01 |
| 2026-09-14 | ₹10.37 | +0.02 |
| 2026-09-13 | ₹10.36 | +0.00 |
| 2026-09-12 | ₹10.36 | +0.01 |
| 2026-09-11 | ₹10.35 | -0.01 |
| 2026-09-10 | ₹10.36 | +0.05 |
| 2026-09-09 | ₹10.31 | +0.04 |
| 2026-09-08 | ₹10.27 | — |
Understanding the Risk Before Committing Capital
Tellurium's core structural feature — being a byproduct of copper refining rather than a directly-mined commodity — is the single most important thing to understand before considering any exposure here. Supply cannot simply "increase" the way it can for a metal with its own dedicated mines; it depends on copper refiners deciding recovery is worth the trouble at prevailing prices. That makes tellurium supply behave less predictably than a mined commodity's supply typically does.
The demand case is more straightforward but still not risk-free. Cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film solar panels are a real, established technology and a genuine alternative to silicon-based panels, and demand could keep growing as global solar installation expands. Whether that demand growth translates into rewarding returns for anyone holding copper or solar-manufacturer shares depends on factors well beyond tellurium alone — something that could go a number of different ways and is not something this page, or anyone else, can predict with confidence.
This page is for general information, not investment advice. Company shares and funds carry risks beyond the underlying commodity price, and past price patterns do not guarantee future behavior. Consider consulting a qualified financial advisor before making investment decisions.
Investing in Tellurium — Common Questions
No, not in any practical retail sense. There is no tellurium bullion market, no tellurium coin, and no jewellery-counter equivalent. Tellurium trades in very small volumes as a specialty industrial material between copper refiners, chemical processors and solar-panel manufacturers — not as a retail investment product.
The realistic routes are indirect: shares in copper mining and refining companies whose operations generate the anode slime tellurium is recovered from, and shares in solar-panel manufacturers that use cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film technology — First Solar being the best-known real example. There is no dedicated tellurium ETF or fund on the scale that exists for gold or even lithium.
Only a partial one. A copper company's share price reflects its copper output, costs, debt and broader market sentiment first — tellurium recovery is a small side stream for even the refiners that bother with it. Buying a copper stock for tellurium exposure means accepting that copper's own fundamentals will dominate the investment far more than tellurium's will.
That depends entirely on your own goals, time horizon and risk tolerance — this page is educational, not a recommendation to buy or sell anything. Given how thin and byproduct-dependent this market is, anyone considering indirect exposure should go in expecting a market that behaves very differently from a directly-mined, widely-traded commodity like gold or copper.
That tellurium supply is not really a standalone story — it rises and falls with copper refining volumes and with whether refiners find recovery economically worthwhile. And that demand is concentrated heavily in one growing but still relatively small use, cadmium telluride solar panels, which makes any indirect exposure sensitive to how that specific technology's adoption plays out against silicon-based panels.
