Scandium Price per kg (United States)

Its 12-month range runs from a low of $5,200 to a high of $5,200.

It is 0.0% over the past year.

Scandium (Sc) has a small but strategic market. Its largest use is in solid oxide fuel cells, where scandia-stabilised zirconia makes the electrolyte. Tiny additions also turn aluminum into much stronger, weldable aluminum-scandium alloys for aerospace parts, 3D-printing powders and sporting goods. Scandium aluminum nitride is emerging in the RF filters of 5G devices.

Other uses

• Metal halide lamps
• Lasers and optical coatings
• Additive manufacturing powders
• Research ceramics

Scandium has never been mined at scale on its own; it is recovered in small amounts from titanium, nickel and rare earth processing. Supply comes from China, Russia, the Philippines and Canada, and the market is tiny. Demand is limited mainly because supply is unreliable, which has held back aerospace alloys that could use it in quantity.

What moves the price

• By-product recovery at titanium, nickel and rare earth plants
• Fuel cell demand
• Aerospace and 3D-printing adoption of scandium alloys
• Chinese export controls

Scandium is sold in small lots, mostly under private agreements, so its price history is thin and moves in steps rather than cycles.

As of October 2026, the Stockatomics benchmark price is $5,200 per kg contained.

Scandium is recovered in small amounts as a by-product of titanium, nickel and rare earth processing, in China, Russia, the Philippines and Canada, where a titanium smelter in Quebec has produced scandium oxide since 2022.

Scandium is on the US critical minerals list and the EU critical raw materials list. Fuel cells and advanced aluminum alloys have few substitutes for it, and commercial supply is a small by-product from a few countries.

Stockatomics publishes a US benchmark price for scandium in US dollars per kg contained, reading as of October 2026. The price is quoted per kg of oxide, not for an aluminum-scandium alloy. Scandium is sold in small lots, so its price moves less often than those of the higher-volume minerals.

Converting the price

• Scandium oxide contains about 65% scandium