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Tellurium Reference Rate — 10-Day Trend
All prices in ₹ per gram · daily rate, updated once per day
One Tonne of One of the Rarest Materials Tracked Here
Scaled from today's per-gram rate of ₹10.43, a full tonne of tellurium comes to ₹10,427,067.00 on September 17, 2026. Read that as an order-of-magnitude reference, not a real quote — tellurium's global market genuinely doesn't move at tonne scale the way copper or aluminium does.
- 1 kilogram: ₹10,427.07
- 10 kilograms: ₹104,270.67
- 1 metric tonne: ₹10,427,067.00
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 |
Why "Rare" Isn't an Exaggeration Here
Tellurium is genuinely one of the scarcer materials this site tracks, and the reason is structural rather than accidental: it's recovered entirely from anode slimes left over during copper's electrolytic refining. Nobody runs a mine targeting tellurium specifically. Global output is capped by how much copper gets refined and how much of that refining captures the slime byproduct at all — most copper refineries never bother.
Solar demand is the pressure point to watch
Cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film solar panels are tellurium's dominant modern use, and First Solar's gigawatt-scale manufacturing has, at points, run up against real tellurium availability limits — a genuine supply-demand tension documented in industry commentary, not a hypothetical risk.
| Trait | Tellurium | Copper (its source metal) |
|---|---|---|
| Typical annual global output | A few hundred tonnes | Tens of millions of tonnes |
| How it's obtained | Byproduct of copper refining only | Directly mined |
| Futures market | None comparable to LME | Deep LME/COMEX futures market |
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 | — |
What Actually Moves a Market This Thin
Because global supply is so small and inflexible, even a modest shift in copper-refining throughput or CdTe solar manufacturing demand can register as a visible move in tellurium's per-gram figure — and, scaled up, in this per-tonne number too. That's worth keeping in mind before reading too much into any single day's change.
The comparison table and 10-day history above track that movement in context. For a longer view, the site's own tellurium price history page holds real recorded data by year and month.
Tellurium Price Per Tonne — FAQs
Scaled from today's per-gram figure of ₹10.43, one tonne of tellurium works out to ₹10,427,067.00 on September 17, 2026. This is an arithmetic reference — real tellurium transactions almost never happen at full-tonne scale.
Because global tellurium supply is measured in a few hundred tonnes a year at most, recovered entirely as a byproduct of copper anode-slime processing — a single tonne represents a genuinely significant share of that annual total, unlike copper, where a tonne barely registers against tens of millions of tonnes produced worldwide.
No liquid, widely-used futures exchange exists for tellurium comparable to LME copper. It trades through direct commercial agreements between refiners, distributors, and end users like solar-panel manufacturers, not on a deep exchange-traded market.
Copper refining capacity and throughput, not tellurium demand. Since tellurium is only recovered from copper anode slimes, producers can't simply decide to make more of it — output is capped by decisions made in the copper industry, an industry with its own separate economics.
It's a real, documented pressure point — cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar demand has been reported straining tellurium availability at points. Whether that translates into a specific price level going forward isn't something this page will predict; it's a genuine supply-demand tension worth watching.
