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Tellurium Price — 10-Day Trend
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A Byproduct of a Byproduct Process
Tellurium, priced at ₹10.43 per gram today, September 17, 2026, is one of the rarest metals this site tracks — and the reason has nothing to do with how much of it exists underground. Tellurium is recovered almost entirely from the anode slimes left over during electrolytic copper refining, a residue produced while purifying copper, not while looking for tellurium.
- Where it comes from: anode slimes from electrolytic copper refining
- Classification: chemically a metalloid, tracked here alongside the site's other metals
- Why it's scarce: supply is capped by copper refining volumes, not tellurium demand
Tellurium Price 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 |
What Anode Slimes Actually Are
During electrolytic copper refining, the process that purifies copper to the near-100% quality modern industry requires, not everything in the raw copper dissolves into the refining solution. Some impurities settle out as a sludge-like residue at the bottom of the refining cells — the anode slime. That residue is where tellurium, along with a few other rare elements, is actually extracted from, as a secondary product of a process built entirely around copper.
Why that structurally limits supply
Because tellurium only shows up in the amount of anode slime that copper refining happens to produce, there is no direct way to "mine more tellurium" if demand rises. Global supply is effectively capped by how much copper gets refined worldwide and how much tellurium those specific anode slimes contain — a hard structural ceiling that a primary-mined metal doesn't face.
Tellurium Price — 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 | — |
The Same Pattern, a Familiar Story on This Site
This byproduct-of-a-byproduct structure isn't unique to tellurium — it echoes a pattern seen across several of the less familiar metals tracked here. Rhodium rides along with platinum and palladium mining. Gallium and indium come mostly from bauxite and zinc processing. Each has its own specific host industry, but the underlying lesson is the same: some of the most technologically important materials in modern electronics and solar power are recovered almost as an afterthought of mining a completely different metal.
That scarcity is exactly why demand growth for tellurium's dominant use — covered on the site's what is tellurium used for page — matters so much to its price. A tight-supply, single-demand-driver metal like this one has little room to absorb a sudden jump in solar-panel manufacturing without moving the price.
Why Tellurium Is Rare — FAQs
Because it is essentially never mined as a primary target. Tellurium is recovered almost entirely as a byproduct of copper refining, specifically from the anode slimes — the residues left behind during electrolytic copper refining — which means its available supply is a tiny fraction of what a directly mined metal would produce.
During electrolytic copper refining, impurities that don't dissolve into the refining solution settle out as a sludge-like residue at the bottom of the refining cells. That residue, the anode slime, is where tellurium — along with a few other rare elements — actually gets recovered from, as a secondary product of a process that exists to purify copper.
Chemically, tellurium is usually classified as a metalloid rather than a true metal — it sits in that in-between category on the periodic table. This site tracks and prices it alongside its other metals for practical purposes, since it behaves like an industrial commodity in the same way the others do.
Indirectly. Tellurium output tracks copper refining volumes and economics rather than tellurium demand on its own — the same byproduct-supply pattern seen in several other metals this site tracks, such as rhodium from platinum/palladium mining or gallium and indium from zinc and bauxite processing.
Because its entire global supply is capped by how much copper gets refined and how much tellurium those anode slimes actually contain — there's no way to simply mine more tellurium to meet rising demand the way a primary-mined metal could. That structural scarcity is exactly why the market stays so thin compared with copper itself.
