Prices of elements and their compounds

This table lists the elements by their name and gives some historical prices for them and their commonly traded compounds. The first of the two price columns shows the price in US dollars per kg of the compound specified. The second shows the USD price per kg of element in the compound. Dates on prices facilitate forex conversion.

Elements of only short half-lives are unlikely to be traded on a secondary market outside of nuclear lab production, and were therefore excluded from the main table. The current cutoff excludes elements with atomic number greater than 105. They have no isotope with a half-life greater than 1.5 hours and are listed separately later.

Element[1] Compound
Name, Symbol, Number Compound/form/isotope Conditions of price Price ($/kg)

By compound
weight

 Price ($/kg)

By element
weight

 Date Ref.
Actinium Ac 89
225Ac 99% pure $1203/mCi with permit $100> [2] Fiscal year 2003
Aluminium Al 13
P1020A (=>99.7% Al) LME official cash ask 1.309 up to 1.313 Jan. 27, 2009 fixing
Americium Am 95
241AmO2 powder >99% gram units in steel cont. $728,000 (oxide?) Sept. 1998
243AmO2 powder >99.9% mg units, NRC Form 741 $180,250,000 (ox.?) Sept. 1998
Antimony Sb 51
=>99.65% pure CIF US port 5.67-6.24 Jan. 25, 2009
=>99.65% pure Free on board China 4.10-4.30 Jan. 28, 2009
Argon Ar 18
-
Arsenic As 33
min 99% pure 1.433 Jul. 08, 2010
Astatine At 85
-
Barium Ba 56
Barium chromate 99% 100 July 11, 2010
Berkelium Bk 97
-
Beryllium Be 4
- $7480
Bismuth Bi 83
min 99.99% pure 18.7 Jul. 08, 2010
Boron B 5
- $11140
Bromine Br 35
- $50
Cadmium Cd 48
min 99.95% pure 4.19 Jul. 08, 2010
Caesium Cs 55
- $11000
Calcium Ca 20
- $200
Californium Cf 98
-
Carbon C 6
- $24
Cerium Ce 58
Cerium(IV) oxide (CeO2), 99% Free On Board China 1.92-3.64 1.56-2.96 Qly avgs. Q1-Q3 2007
Chlorine Cl 17
- $1.50
Chromium Cr 24
99.9%, Electrolytic Vac Melt Grade FOB North America 9.59 9.59 2005-10-31
Cobalt Co 27
min 99.8& pure Aerospace application ~46 Jul. 08, 2010
Copper Cu 29
Commodity copper LME Cash off. fix. bid 5.225-8.284 5.225-8.284 2007-10-18-2007-10-18
Curium Cm 96
-
Dubnium Db 105
-
Dysprosium Dy 66
Dysprosium(III) oxide (Dy2O3), 99% Free On Board China 85.50-91.5 66.00-70.64 Qly avgs. Q1-Q3 2007
Einsteinium Es 99
-
Erbium Er 68
- $5400 [3]
Europium Eu 63
Europium oxide, 99% Free On Board China 255-369.6 - Qly avgs. Q1-Q3 2007
Fermium Fm 100
-
Fluorine F 9
- $1900
Francium Fr 87
-
Gadolinium Gd 64
min 99% pure FOB China 19.5 July 8, 2010
Gallium Ga 31
min 99.99% pure CIF Main Airport ~525 July 8, 2010
Germanium Ge 32
min 99.99% pure CIF Main Airport ~940 July 8, 2010
Gold Au 79
Gold coin 53000 Feb 03, 2013
Hafnium Hf 72
pure $1200
Helium He 2
- $52
Holmium Ho 67
- $8600 [4]
Hydrogen H 1
Gas 99.99+% in bulk at plant, pre-tax 0.7-4.1 0.7-4.1 2004
Liquid 99.99+% in bulk at plant, pre-tax 2-7 2-7 2004
Indium In 49
min 99.99% ~590 July 8, 2010
Iodine I 53
- $83
Iridium Ir 77
- $42000
Iron Fe 26
- $72
Krypton Kr 36
-
Lanthanum La 57
Lanthanum oxide (La2O3), 99% Free On Board China 2.31-3.86 1.72-2.87 Qly avgs. Q1-Q3 2007
Lawrencium Lr 103
-
Lead Pb 82
Commodity lead LME Cash off. fix. bid 1.514-3.975 1.514-3.975 2007-01-01-2007-10-18
Lithium Li 3
pure $270
Lutetium Lu 71
pure $2400 $340000 (?) 2003 [5]
Magnesium Mg 12
min 99.9% pure ~5.8 July 8, 2010
Manganese Mn 25
99.7% min FOB China 1.5 1.5 2005-11-25
Mendelevium Md 101
-
Mercury Hg 80
99.99% ? 17.4 17.4 2005-10-25
Molybdenum Mo 42
Molybdenum oxide Mo 57% ~30 July 8, 2010
Neodymium Nd 60
Neodymium oxide (Nd2O3), 99% Free On Board China 24.18-37.19 18.14-27.89 Qly avgs. Q1-Q3 2007
Neon Ne 10
pure $330
Neptunium Np 93
-
Nickel Ni 28
Commodity nickel LME Cash off. fix. bid 25.050-54.050 25.050-54.050 2007-01-01-2007-10-18
Niobium Nb 41
pure $180
Nitrogen N 7
99.999%UHP 311scf cyl. at U of Florida 3.04 3.04 Sept. 1, 2006
99.999%UHP 249scf cyl. at U of Arizona 5.61 5.61 Sept. 1, 2008
99.9995% Liquid Nitrogen own still 0.074 0.074 Oct. 2008 YTD avg.
Nobelium No 102
-
Osmium Os 76
pure $77000
Oxygen O 8
pure $3
Palladium Pd 46
pure $58330
Phosphorus P 15
pure $300
Platinum Pt 78
Platinum 99.95% ~54000 Feb 03, 2013
Plutonium Pu 94
pure Plutonium is not generally legal to own.[6] $4,000,000
Polonium Po 84
-
Potassium K 19
pure $1000
Praseodymium Pr 59
Praseodymium oxide (Pr2O3), 99% Free On Board China 22.60-36.25 16.86-27.04 Qly avgs. Q1-Q3 2007
Promethium Pm 61
-
Protactinium Pa 91
- $280,000
Radium Ra 88
-
Radon Rn 86
-
Rhenium Re 75
pellets min 99.9% ~5,000 July 8, 2010
Rhodium Rh 45
min 99.9% pure ~80,000 July 8, 2010
Rubidium Rb 37
pure $12000
Ruthenium Ru 44
pure $14000
Rutherfordium Rf 104
-
Samarium Sm 62
Samarium oxide (Sm2O3), 99% 2.40-4.27 1.82-3.23 Qly avgs. Q1-Q3 2007
Scandium Sc 21
pure $14,000
Selenium Se 34
min 99.5% pure ~85 July 8, 2010
Silicon Si 14
min 98.5% (5-5-3) FOB P.R.C. China 2.25-2.50 July 8, 2010
Silver Ag 47
Silver bullion 1022 Feb 03, 2013
Sodium Na 11
pure $250
Strontium Sr 38
pure $1000
Sulfur S 16
pure $500
Tantalum Ta 73
Tantalite basis 30% Ta205 ~150 July 8, 2010
Technetium Tc 43
-
Tellurium Te 52
pure $240
Terbium Tb 65
Tb metal 99% min FOB China 650 July 8, 2010
Terbium oxide 571-609.3 Qly avgs. Q1-Q3 2007
Thallium Tl 81
pure $480
Thorium Th 90
-
Thulium Tm 69
- $70000 [7]
Tin Sn 50
Commodity tin LME Cash off. fix. bid 9.625-16.675 9.625-16.675 2007-01-01-2007-10-18
Titanium Ti 22
Ti sponge TG100 12x25mm Long term contract 8 July 08, 2010
Tungsten W 74
Ammonium paratungstate FOB P.R.C. China 0.24 24 July 8, 2010
Uranium U 92
Yellowcake (0.7% 235U)
Depleted (0.2-0.4% 235U)
Vanadium V 23
Vanadium pentoxide 98% min 14.33 July 8, 2010
Xenon Xe 54
pure $1200
Ytterbium Yb 70
pure $14,000
Yttrium Y 39
min 99.9% pure FOB China 45 July 8, 2010
Zinc Zn 30
Commodity zinc LME Cash off. fix. bid 2.699-4.474 2.699-4.474 2007-01-01-2007-10-18
Zirconium Zr 40
pure $1570

These elements above 105 were excluded from the above table:

Highly unstable elements
Name Symbol No.
Bohrium Bh 107
Copernicium Cn 112
Darmstadtium Ds 110
Flerovium Fl 114
Hassium Hs 108
Livermorium Lv 116
Meitnerium Mt 109
Moscovium Mc 115
Nihonium Nh 113
Oganesson Og 118
Roentgenium Rg 111
Seaborgium Sg 106
Tennessine Ts 117

See also

References

  1. ↑ Names taken from Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry - IUPAC Recommendations 2005, Table I
  2. ↑ mCi/kg = [Avogadro's number]/[atomic weight]*(1-10^(log(.5)/[half-life in seconds]))/37000
  3. ↑ http://www.chemicool.com/elements/erbium.html
  4. ↑ http://www.chemicool.com/elements/holmium.html
  5. ↑ Stephen B. Castor and James B. Hedrick. "Rare Earth Elements" (PDF). Retrieved 2009-06-06.
  6. ↑ Gray, Theodore (2010). The Elements.
  7. ↑ http://www.chemicool.com/elements/thulium.html
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 12/2/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.