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Gallium Price — 10-Day Trend Behind the Drivers
All prices in ₹ per gram · daily rate, updated once per day
What Actually Moves the Gallium Price
Today's gallium reference rate is ₹22.98 per gram, and understanding why it sits there — rather than higher or lower — comes down to three interlinked factors: how much gallium byproduct becomes available from aluminium and zinc processing, how concentrated its refining is in one country, and how the semiconductor industry's own demand cycle is running.
- Byproduct supply: tracks bauxite and zinc ore processing, not dedicated gallium mining
- Refining concentration: China dominates global gallium refining capacity
- Demand concentration: gallium arsenide and gallium nitride semiconductor products
None of these three factors work independently. A slow year for global aluminium output can tighten gallium supply even if semiconductor demand is booming, and a policy decision in one country can outweigh years of steady industrial demand growth. That interplay is exactly why gallium's price doesn't move like a typical base metal's.
Gallium Price by Weight
Today's Gallium rate is Twenty Three Rupees per gram. At this rate, 10 grams of Gallium costs Two Hundred and Thirty Rupees.
| Unit | Weight | Price (INR) | Price in Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Gram | 1.0000 g | ₹22.98 | Twenty Three Rupees |
| 8 Grams | 8.0000 g | ₹183.86 | One Hundred and Eighty Four Rupees |
| 10 Grams | 10.0000 g | ₹229.83 | Two Hundred and Thirty Rupees |
| 100 Grams | 100.0000 g | ₹2,298.26 | Two Thousand Two Hundred and Ninety Eight Rupees |
| 1 Kilogram | 1,000.0000 g | ₹22,982.64 | Twenty Two Thousand Nine Hundred and Eighty Three Rupees |
| 1 Ounce (oz) | 28.3495 g | ₹651.55 | Six Hundred and Fifty Two Rupees |
| 1 Troy Ounce | 31.1035 g | ₹714.84 | Seven Hundred and Fifteen Rupees |
| 1 Metric Ton | 1,000,000.0000 g | ₹22,982,641.00 | Two Crore Twenty Nine Lakh Eighty Two Thousand Six Hundred and Forty One Rupees |
The Byproduct Problem, Explained
Most metals respond to price signals in a fairly straightforward way — prices rise, producers invest in more capacity, supply eventually catches up. Gallium doesn't work like that. Because it's recovered as a byproduct of bauxite processing (the ore aluminium comes from) and, to a lesser extent, zinc ore processing, a refiner's decision to extract more gallium depends on aluminium and zinc economics first, gallium economics second.
Why China's position adds a second layer of risk
Layer on top of that byproduct dynamic the fact that China refines the overwhelming majority of the world's gallium. In 2023, China introduced real, publicly announced export-licensing controls on gallium and germanium — a genuine policy action, not speculation, tied to broader technology-trade tensions. When a market's dominant refiner also controls export licensing, that single point of concentration can matter more than years of steady demand growth or byproduct availability elsewhere.
This combination — thin, byproduct-dependent supply plus concentrated refining in one country — is a genuinely unusual setup among the metals tracked on this site. Even lithium, which also lacks a retail bullion market, has multiple mining countries and extraction methods; gallium's refining bottleneck sits in one place.
Gallium Price — Last 10 Days
The most recent Gallium price on record (2026-09-17) is Twenty Three Rupees per gram. This is up by Less than One Rupees from the previous day's rate of ₹22.94.
| Date | Price (INR/g) | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-17 | ₹22.98 | +0.05 |
| 2026-09-16 | ₹22.94 | +0.01 |
| 2026-09-15 | ₹22.93 | +0.03 |
| 2026-09-14 | ₹22.90 | -0.16 |
| 2026-09-13 | ₹23.06 | +0.00 |
| 2026-09-12 | ₹23.06 | +0.01 |
| 2026-09-11 | ₹23.04 | -0.01 |
| 2026-09-10 | ₹23.06 | +0.12 |
| 2026-09-09 | ₹22.94 | +0.09 |
| 2026-09-08 | ₹22.85 | — |
The Demand Side: Why Semiconductors Matter So Much
On the demand side, gallium's story is comparatively concentrated too. Gallium arsenide (GaAs) feeds high-frequency chips, some LED technology, and solar cells; gallium nitride (GaN) is increasingly used in power electronics, fast chargers, and 5G-related hardware. Both are genuine, current commercial applications — not speculative future uses — and together they account for most of what drives modern gallium demand.
Because that demand doesn't spread across dozens of unrelated industries the way, say, copper's does, gallium's price is more directly exposed to the health of the semiconductor sector specifically. A strong stretch for chip demand tends to show up in gallium more visibly than it would in a metal with a broader, more diversified customer base.
For a closer look at how China's specific 2023 policy action fits into this picture, see the site's why China controls gallium supply page.
What Affects Gallium Price — FAQs
Three stand out: China's dominant refining position and its 2023 export-licensing controls on gallium, gallium's status as a byproduct of bauxite and zinc processing rather than a mined ore in its own right, and semiconductor-industry demand cycles for gallium arsenide and gallium nitride products.
Because producers can't simply decide to make more gallium the way a copper mine can ramp output. Gallium supply depends on how much bauxite (for aluminium) and zinc ore get processed, and on refiners' own decisions about whether it's worth recovering the gallium those processes yield. That indirect link can make gallium supply slower and less predictable to respond to a price signal than a directly mined metal's supply.
China is overwhelmingly the dominant global refiner of gallium. In 2023, it introduced real, publicly announced export-licensing controls on gallium and germanium, a genuine policy step tied to broader technology-trade tensions. Given how concentrated refining is in one country, decisions made there carry outsized weight on global gallium availability.
In a similar structural sense, yes — gallium's modern demand is concentrated heavily in gallium arsenide (GaAs) and gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor products used in high-frequency chips, power electronics, and 5G-related hardware. Because that demand is less diversified than, say, copper's many end uses, shifts in the semiconductor cycle can move gallium's price picture more directly.
Not in a direct one-to-one sense. Gallium is recovered as a byproduct when bauxite and zinc ore get processed, so overall aluminium and zinc production volumes influence how much gallium becomes available. But gallium's own price is set separately, driven mainly by demand from the semiconductor sector and by how much of the available byproduct gets economically recovered and refined.
