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Indium Price — 10-Day Trend
All prices in ₹ per gram · daily rate, updated once per day
No One Mines Indium for Indium
Indium, at ₹69.21 per gram today, September 17, 2026, has a supply story that looks nothing like gold's or copper's. Nobody digs a mine specifically to extract indium. Instead, it comes out of the ground embedded in zinc-bearing ore, and gets recovered as a secondary output during the smelting and refining processes that exist to produce zinc in the first place.
That single fact — byproduct, not primary target — shapes almost everything else about how indium behaves as a market.
- Host metal: zinc, recovered during smelting/refining
- Primary producing regions: China, South Korea, Canada
- What that means for supply: tracks zinc mining decisions, not indium demand
Indium Reference Value, by Weight
Today's Indium rate is Sixty Nine Rupees per gram. At this rate, 10 grams of Indium costs Six Hundred and Ninety Two Rupees.
| Unit | Weight | Price (INR) | Price in Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Gram | 1.0000 g | ₹69.21 | Sixty Nine Rupees |
| 8 Grams | 8.0000 g | ₹553.67 | Five Hundred and Fifty Four Rupees |
| 10 Grams | 10.0000 g | ₹692.09 | Six Hundred and Ninety Two Rupees |
| 100 Grams | 100.0000 g | ₹6,920.91 | Six Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty One Rupees |
| 1 Kilogram | 1,000.0000 g | ₹69,209.09 | Sixty Nine Thousand Two Hundred and Nine Rupees |
| 1 Ounce (oz) | 28.3495 g | ₹1,962.04 | One Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixty Two Rupees |
| 1 Troy Ounce | 31.1035 g | ₹2,152.64 | Two Thousand One Hundred and Fifty Three Rupees |
| 1 Metric Ton | 1,000,000.0000 g | ₹69,209,089.00 | Six Crore Ninety Two Lakh Nine Thousand Eighty Nine Rupees |
What Byproduct Supply Actually Means in Practice
A mining company that produces zinc is not thinking about indium when it decides how much ore to process. It's weighing the zinc price, zinc demand from galvanizing and construction, and its own zinc-focused operating economics. Indium output simply comes along for the ride at whatever volume that zinc decision happens to produce.
Why that creates a genuinely different dynamic
The practical result is that indium availability can loosen or tighten for reasons that have nothing to do with how many touchscreens or displays the electronics industry wants to build that year. A change in zinc mining activity — driven by zinc's own price cycle, environmental regulation, or a smelter's maintenance schedule — can shift how much indium reaches the market, independent of the ITO demand story covered on the site's what is indium used for page.
Indium Price — Last 10 Days
The most recent Indium price on record (2026-09-17) is Sixty Nine Rupees per gram. This is up by Less than One Rupees from the previous day's rate of ₹69.07.
| Date | Price (INR/g) | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-17 | ₹69.21 | +0.14 |
| 2026-09-16 | ₹69.07 | +0.03 |
| 2026-09-15 | ₹69.04 | +0.09 |
| 2026-09-14 | ₹68.95 | +0.11 |
| 2026-09-13 | ₹68.84 | +0.00 |
| 2026-09-12 | ₹68.84 | +0.04 |
| 2026-09-11 | ₹68.80 | -0.04 |
| 2026-09-10 | ₹68.84 | +0.35 |
| 2026-09-09 | ₹68.50 | -0.26 |
| 2026-09-08 | ₹68.76 | — |
Not a Unique Story, Just Indium's Version of It
This byproduct pattern is not unique to indium — it's a recurring theme among several of the less familiar metals this site tracks. Gallium follows a broadly similar path out of bauxite and zinc processing. Rhodium rides along with platinum and palladium mining. Tellurium comes out of copper refining. Each case has its own specific host metal and geography, but the underlying structure is the same: a smaller, less-visible metal whose supply is really a side effect of decisions made in a much larger industry.
Understanding that structure is often more useful than watching the daily price alone, since it explains why indium can behave so differently from a primary-mined metal like gold or copper over time.
Indium Supply — FAQs
Essentially never at commercial scale. Indium is recovered almost entirely as a byproduct of zinc ore processing, and to a lesser extent from some lead and tin processing — nobody opens a mine specifically to extract indium.
It's a matter of geology and chemistry — indium tends to occur alongside zinc-bearing minerals in the earth's crust, in trace amounts too small to be worth mining for on their own, but large enough to be worth recovering as a byproduct once the ore is already being processed for zinc.
More precisely, it follows zinc mining and refining decisions, which are themselves driven by the zinc price and zinc demand — not by anything happening in the indium or electronics market. A zinc smelter's decision to run more or fewer tonnes has real knock-on effects for how much indium reaches the market that year.
China, South Korea, and Canada are real, established centers of indium production and refining, largely because they host significant zinc-processing capacity rather than any dedicated indium-mining industry.
No — it's a real, recurring pattern across several metals this site tracks. Gallium follows a similar path from bauxite and zinc processing, rhodium from platinum and palladium mining, and tellurium from copper refining. Indium's zinc link is simply its own version of a broader byproduct-metal story.
