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Tellurium Price History — Recent 10-Day Base
All prices in ₹ per gram · daily rate, updated once per day
What Shapes Tellurium's Price Over Time
Today's tellurium rate is ₹10.43 per gram, but the more interesting question for anyone landing on this page is usually not today's number — it's what has driven this market over a longer stretch. The short answer: tellurium's history is really the history of two other things layered on top of each other, copper refining activity and solar-panel manufacturing demand, since tellurium itself is rarely if ever mined on purpose.
Because a copper refinery decides whether recovering tellurium from its anode slime is worth the trouble at any given moment, supply has never behaved like a dedicated mining cycle with its own investment and expansion pattern. It behaves instead like a byproduct stream that quietly expands or contracts with the fortunes of the copper industry.
- Today's price: ₹10.43 per gram (₹10,427.07 per kg)
- Main supply source: anode slimes from electrolytic copper refining
- Main demand driver: cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film solar panels
Tellurium Price History — Value 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 |
A Byproduct History, Not a Mining History
Most commodities this site tracks have a price history shaped by their own dedicated mines, exploration cycles and production expansions. Tellurium's story runs differently. Since it is essentially never the primary target of a mining operation, there has never been a wave of new "tellurium mines" coming online the way there was for lithium during its 2021-2022 boom. Instead, whatever tellurium reaches the market shows up as a byproduct of copper refiners choosing to recover it from their anode slimes.
The same pattern seen elsewhere on this site
This is not a unique story. Rhodium is recovered from platinum and palladium refining. Gallium and indium ride along with bauxite and zinc processing. In each case, the byproduct metal's price history is tied more closely to its parent metal's refining volumes and economics than to standalone demand for the byproduct itself. Tellurium fits squarely into that pattern, with copper playing the role of the parent metal.
That structure also explains why tellurium's price history has never followed a clean, predictable cycle the way a directly-mined commodity's history often does. A slowdown in global copper refining, or simply a change in whether refiners find tellurium recovery worthwhile at prevailing prices, can shape supply independent of anything happening on the demand side.
Tellurium Price History — Last 10 Recorded 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 | — |
What This Means for Anyone Watching the Price Today
The demand side of tellurium's story has genuinely strengthened in recent years as cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film solar technology has grown into a real, established alternative to silicon-based panels — First Solar being a well-known manufacturer built around this technology. Whether that demand growth continues to outpace the byproduct supply that copper refiners choose to make available is not something this page, or anyone else, can state with certainty.
For anyone who wants real numbers rather than a general description, the site's own tellurium price history page holds the recorded data, organized by year and month, going back further than the 10-day window shown on this page. That is the right place to look for what actually happened on a specific date — this page is meant to explain why it happened the way it did.
One practical takeaway worth carrying forward: because tellurium's supply is structurally tied to copper refining rather than to a dedicated mining response, it is reasonable to expect this market to keep behaving differently from a directly-mined commodity, rather than settling into a more conventional supply-and-demand rhythm anytime soon.
Tellurium Price History — FAQs
Two forces mostly: how much copper the world is electrolytically refining (since tellurium is recovered from the anode slime left over in that process), and how much cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film solar panel manufacturing needs at any given point. Because tellurium is not mined for its own sake, its price history tends to track shifts in those two areas rather than a dedicated tellurium mining cycle.
This page deliberately sticks to describing the pattern and drivers behind tellurium's price movement rather than quoting specific historical figures, since precise levels depend on which market, currency and purity grade is being referenced. The qualitative pattern — a byproduct-driven, thinly-traded market — is the reliable, well-established part of the story.
The tellurium price history page holds the site's own recorded daily and monthly data, with real figures rather than a general narrative.
In relative terms, tellurium can behave quite differently from copper because it is a much smaller, thinner market layered on top of copper refining activity. Copper has decades of deep, diversified industrial demand behind it. Tellurium depends on a narrow recovery decision made by refiners plus a much smaller pool of buyers, largely in the solar industry.
Demand from cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar panel manufacturing could keep growing as solar installation continues to expand globally, though how much of that growth translates into tellurium price moves depends on how copper refiners respond on the supply side — something that isn't possible to state with certainty in advance.
