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Zinc Price — 10-Day Trend
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Zinc's Two Defining Crashes
Zinc's price history isn't a straight line, and understanding its two biggest historical crashes tells you more about what actually moves this metal than any single day's number does — including today's ₹0.33 per gram. The first, and by far the most severe, came with the 2008 global financial crisis. Zinc had run up to a boom-era peak near $4,580 a tonne in late 2006, then collapsed as the crisis hit — falling all the way to roughly $1,100-1,177 a tonne by the close of 2008, a decline of more than 70% from the peak.
That kind of move doesn't happen because of anything specific to zinc mining or smelting. It happens because zinc is fundamentally an industrial metal, and when the global financial system seizes up and construction and manufacturing activity collapse with it, demand for a metal used mainly to protect steel from corrosion collapses right alongside them.
- Late 2006: boom-era peak near $4,580/tonne
- End of 2008: crash to roughly $1,100-1,177/tonne amid the global financial crisis
- 2011: partial recovery to around $2,550/tonne on post-crisis stimulus
Zinc Price by Weight
Today's Zinc rate is Less than One Rupees per gram. At this rate, 10 grams of Zinc costs Three Rupees.
| Unit | Weight | Price (INR) | Price in Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Gram | 1.0000 g | ₹0.33 | Less than One Rupees |
| 8 Grams | 8.0000 g | ₹2.66 | Three Rupees |
| 10 Grams | 10.0000 g | ₹3.32 | Three Rupees |
| 100 Grams | 100.0000 g | ₹33.19 | Thirty Three Rupees |
| 1 Kilogram | 1,000.0000 g | ₹331.90 | Three Hundred and Thirty Two Rupees |
| 1 Ounce (oz) | 28.3495 g | ₹9.41 | Nine Rupees |
| 1 Troy Ounce | 31.1035 g | ₹10.32 | Ten Rupees |
| 1 Metric Ton | 1,000,000.0000 g | ₹331,899.00 | Three Lakh Thirty One Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety Nine Rupees |
The Second Crash: China's 2015 Growth Scare
Zinc's recovery after 2008 didn't hold indefinitely. Prices drifted lower again through the following years and hit a second meaningful trough in November 2015, falling to around $1,450-1,525 a tonne — the metal's lowest level since mid-2009. This time the trigger wasn't a global financial collapse; it was concern over slowing economic growth in China, by far the world's largest consumer of zinc for construction and manufacturing.
The pattern that connects both crashes
Look at both events side by side and a clear pattern emerges: zinc's worst price collapses have tracked demand shocks in the broader industrial economy, not events specific to zinc mining or supply. That's a genuinely useful thing to know if you're trying to make sense of zinc price moves — the metal's own supply story (mine disruptions, smelter capacity, treatment charges) tends to drive smaller, more gradual price shifts, while the biggest crashes have historically come from macro-level demand shocks that hit every industrial metal at once.
It's also worth noting what these crashes weren't: neither was caused by a zinc-specific oversupply glut or a collapse in zinc mining economics. Both were demand-side events that happened to hit zinc, alongside copper, aluminium and the rest of the base-metals complex, particularly hard.
Zinc Price — Last 10 Days
The most recent Zinc price on record (2026-09-17) is Less than One Rupees per gram.
| Date | Price (INR/g) | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-17 | ₹0.33 | 0.00 |
| 2026-09-16 | ₹0.33 | 0.00 |
| 2026-09-15 | ₹0.33 | +0.00 |
| 2026-09-14 | ₹0.33 | -0.01 |
| 2026-09-13 | ₹0.34 | +0.00 |
| 2026-09-12 | ₹0.34 | 0.00 |
| 2026-09-11 | ₹0.34 | 0.00 |
| 2026-09-10 | ₹0.34 | -0.01 |
| 2026-09-09 | ₹0.35 | +0.00 |
| 2026-09-08 | ₹0.35 | — |
What This History Means for Reading Today's Price
Neither 2008 nor 2015 was predictable in advance, and nothing about this history supports forecasting the next crash's timing. What it does support is a more grounded way of interpreting zinc price moves: when zinc falls sharply, the more useful question isn't "what happened to zinc" but "what's happening to global industrial demand" — because that's where zinc's biggest historical moves have actually originated.
Today's rate of ₹0.33 per gram sits within a price history that has swept from roughly $1,100 to well over $4,000 a tonne over the past two decades. That range is the honest context for judging whether the current level looks stretched, cheap, or simply mid-cycle — a judgment this page deliberately leaves open rather than forcing toward any predicted direction.
Zinc Price Crashes — FAQs
The 2008 global financial crisis produced zinc's most severe historical collapse: LME zinc fell from a boom-era peak near $4,580 a tonne in late 2006 to roughly $1,100-1,177 a tonne by the end of 2008, as industrial demand collapsed almost overnight alongside the broader financial system.
Yes. After recovering to roughly $2,550 a tonne by 2011 on post-crisis stimulus spending, zinc drifted lower again into a 2015-2016 trough, falling to around $1,450-1,525 a tonne in November 2015 — its lowest level since mid-2009 — driven mainly by concerns over slowing Chinese economic growth.
Historically, zinc's biggest downturns have tracked broad industrial and construction demand shocks rather than zinc-specific events — the 2008 crash came from a global financial crisis, and the 2015 trough came from fears about Chinese growth, the world's largest zinc-consuming economy. Zinc's price history is closely tied to the health of global manufacturing and construction activity.
Today's reference rate is ₹0.33 per gram. Zinc has traded through a wide range over the past two decades — from the roughly $1,100-1,177-a-tonne 2008 trough to multi-year highs during periods of tight supply — and where the current price sits within that range is best judged against the site's own longer-run history table and chart above, rather than any single past data point in isolation.
