Rest-of-World (Ecoinvent)

South Africa

Gold (refinery operation)

Germany

Global

Steel section

Steel - Plate

United Arab Emirates (the)

Afghanistan

Antigua and Barbuda

Albania

Angola

Argentina

Austria

Australia

Barbados

Bangladesh

Belgium

Burkina Faso

Bulgaria

Bahrain

Burundi

Benin

Bolivia, Plurinational State of

Brazil

Bahamas

Bhutan

Belize

Canada

Central African Republic

Congo

Switzerland

Côte d'Ivoire

Chile

Cameroon

China

Colombia

Costa Rica

Cyprus

Czechia

Denmark

Dominica

Dominican Republic

Algeria

Ecuador

Estonia

Egypt

Spain

Ethiopia

Finland

Fiji

France

Gabon

United Kingdom

Grenada

Gambia

Guinea

Equatorial Guinea

Greece

Guatemala

Guinea-Bissau

Hong Kong

Honduras

Croatia

Haiti

Hungary

Indonesia

Ireland

Israel

India

Iraq

Iran, Islamic Republic of

Iceland

Italy

Jamaica

Jordan

Japan

Kenya

Cambodia

Kiribati

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Korea, Republic of

Kuwait

Kazakhstan

Lao People's Democratic Republic

Lebanon

Saint Lucia

Sri Lanka

Lesotho

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Latvia

Morocco

Moldova, Republic of

North Macedonia

Mali

Myanmar

Mongolia

Malta

Mauritius

Maldives

Malawi

Mexico

Malaysia

Namibia

Niger

Nonferrous metal (except aluminum) smelting and refining

The activity generating the emissions is gold refinery operation. The Reference Product is gold. Gold is a metal. It is soft and yellow, it is the most ductile and malleable of the metals. Refined gold has a purity of 99.50% and it is a transition metal. It is the direct product of mining, beneficiation and smelting gold ore, after being mined and beneficiated while it is the by-product of platinum group metals extraction and refinery operations. It can be used in the following applications and/or processes: coinage, ornaments, jewellery, gilding, textile industry, electronics, for high conductivity and suppressing secondary emissions, gold-plated grid wire, etc. The Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/19888/documentation

The activity generating the emissions is gold refinery operation. The Reference Product is gold. Gold is a metal. It is soft and yellow, it is the most ductile and malleable of the metals. Refined gold has a purity of 99.50% and it is a transition metal. It is the direct product of mining, beneficiation and smelting gold ore, after being mined and beneficiated while it is the by-product of platinum group metals extraction and refinery operations. It can be used in the following applications and/or processes: coinage, ornaments, jewellery, gilding, textile industry, electronics, for high conductivity and suppressing secondary emissions, gold-plated grid wire, etc. The Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/19657/documentation

Property	Value
Name	Gold (refinery operation)
Sector	Materials and Manufacturing
Category	Metals
Source	ecoinvent
Region	Rest-of-World (Ecoinvent) (ECOINVENT_ROW), South Africa (ZA)
Year	2017
LCA Activity	source_specific

Emission Factor Name	Region	Source	Year	Unit
Gold (refinery operation)	Rest-of-World (Ecoinvent)	ecoinvent	2017	Unit Type
Gold (refinery operation)	South Africa	ecoinvent	2017	Unit Type

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