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Current pb price: $1994.00.

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Lead Price Today

Live lead spot price in USD per metric ton from the London Metal Exchange (LME). Lead demand is dominated by lead-acid batteries for vehicles and backup power systems.

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Where does this price data come from?
PB spot prices are sourced from Metals.Dev, a professional metals data provider, with automatic fallback to gold-api.com for redundancy. Prices are updated in real-time during market hours, ensuring you always see the latest data. All prices reflect the latest available mid-market spot rate.
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COMEX futures trade Sunday through Friday, 6:00 PM to 5:00 PM ET (23 hours per day with a 1-hour break). The London Bullion Market (LBMA) operates Monday to Friday with two daily fixings: AM fix at 10:30 AM London time and PM fix at 3:00 PM London time. Outside of formal exchange hours, precious metals continue to trade on OTC markets globally, meaning prices can move 24 hours a day, 5 days a week. Our data reflects these continuous market movements.
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Understanding the Lead Market

The lead price is benchmarked on the London Metal Exchange (LME) in US dollars per metric tonne, with the Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) providing the Chinese reference price. Lead is one of the oldest metals in human use and remains essential to modern transport and power infrastructure.

Batteries dominate demand. Around 80% of lead consumption goes into lead-acid batteries: starter batteries for conventional vehicles, traction batteries for forklifts and e-bikes, and stationary batteries for telecom towers, data centers, and grid backup. Even electric vehicles carry a 12V lead-acid auxiliary battery, which keeps replacement demand resilient.

Lead is also the most recycled industrial metal: secondary (recycled) production supplies well over half of global demand, with used batteries feeding an efficient closed-loop recycling chain. This makes scrap availability and recycling margins important price inputs alongside mine supply from China, Australia, Peru, the United States, and Mexico.

Because lead is mined largely as a co-product of zinc and silver, its supply responds slowly to its own price. Traders watch LME and SHFE warehouse inventories, battery replacement cycles (cold winters boost failures and demand), and Chinese environmental policy affecting smelters.

Battery metal: about 80% of lead demand is lead-acid batteries
Replacement-driven: most battery demand is replacement, making it less cyclical than other metals
Recycling leader: secondary production supplies more than half of global lead
Co-product supply: most lead is mined alongside zinc and silver
LME benchmark: quoted in USD per metric tonne; SHFE sets the Chinese reference

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the lead price today?
The lead price changes continuously during LME trading hours. The live chart above shows the real-time lead price in US dollars per metric tonne, the standard quotation on the London Metal Exchange.
What is lead used for?
About 80% of lead goes into lead-acid batteries for cars, trucks, motorcycles, forklifts, e-bikes, and backup power systems. Smaller uses include radiation shielding, cable sheathing, ammunition, and weights. Battery recycling supplies the majority of the lead used each year.
Will electric vehicles kill lead demand?
Not quickly. EVs use lithium-ion packs for propulsion but still carry a 12V lead-acid auxiliary battery for electronics and safety systems. Meanwhile, the global fleet of conventional vehicles, telecom backup, and industrial batteries generates steady replacement demand. Long-term substitution is a watch point, not a current collapse.
Why is so much lead recycled?
Used lead-acid batteries are easy to collect, and lead can be re-refined repeatedly without quality loss. Recycling is also far cheaper and cleaner than primary smelting. As a result, secondary production covers well over half of demand, and scrap battery availability is a key driver of refined supply.