Global

Gold (market for gold)

United Arab Emirates (the)

Albania

Argentina

Austria

Australia

Azerbaijan

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bangladesh

Belgium

Bulgaria

Brazil

Belarus

Canada

Switzerland

Chile

China

Czechia

Germany

Algeria

Ecuador

Spain

Finland

France

United Kingdom

Greece

Guatemala

Hungary

Indonesia

India

Iran, Islamic Republic of

Italy

Japan

Korea, Democratic People's Republic of

Korea, Republic of

Kuwait

Kazakhstan

Luxembourg

Libya

Morocco

Moldova, Republic of

Mexico

Malaysia

Nigeria

Netherlands

Norway

New Zealand

Oman

Peru

Philippines (the)

Pakistan

Poland

Portugal

Qatar

Romania

Serbia

Russian Federation (the)

Saudi Arabia

Sweden

Singapore

Slovenia

Slovakia

Syrian Arab Republic (the)

Thailand

Türkiye

Taiwan (Province of China)

Ukraine

United States of America (the)

Uzbekistan

Viet Nam

South Africa

Steel production

European Union

Rest-of-World

Alloy steel - flat-rolled >600mm cold-rolled annealed

Alloy steel - flat-rolled >600mm hot-rolled

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.10. The product '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 cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is market activity. The reference product amount is 1.

Emission intensity of the supply chain per Canadian dollar spent on: basic and semi-finished products of non-ferrous metals and alloys (except aluminum). Retrieved from the OpenIO-Canada v2.9 model which is a Canadian Environmentally Extended Input-Output (EEIO) model. The emission factor is provided in purchaser price including taxes retail margins and distribution costs. Endogenization is not included meaning the emission factor does not account for capital goods.

Basic and semi-finished products of non-ferrous metals and alloys (except aluminum)

Emission intensity of supply chain in dollars spend on: basic iron/steel and other metals. Provided by the Market Economics Limited 2023 in the Consumption Emissions Modelling report prepared for Auckland Council. Retrieved from the sheet: Cons EF 199 SUT in the excel file: consumption-emissions-modelling-market-economics-march-2023-dataset.

Basic iron/steel and other metals

Emission intensity of supply chain (purchase of service/standard good/capital good) in US dollars spend on: basic metals and fabricated metal. Factors retrieved from the Quantis+GHG Protocol Scope 3 Calculator for the year 2016 and apply for years beyond 2016. The same emission factor applies to different types of investments in joint ventures/subsidiaries/associate companies that were not captured in Scope 1 emissions.

Basic metals and fabricated metal

Emission intensity of metals (closed-loop recycled source) The emission factor should be used to report on consumption of procured recycled materials. The emission factor covers sorting/processing/manufacturing and transportation to the point of sale. Retrieved from the Conversion Factors 2021: flat file published by the UK BEIS/Defra at the source URL.

Metals (closed-loop recycled source)

Emission intensity of metals (closed-loop recycled source) The emission factor should be used to report on consumption of procured recycled materials. The emission factor covers sorting/processing/manufacturing and transportation to the point of sale. Retrieved from the Conversion Factors 2022: flat file published by the UK BEIS/Defra at the source URL.

Emission intensity of metals (closed-loop recycled source) The emission factor should be used to report on consumption of procured recycled materials. The emission factor covers sorting/processing/manufacturing and transportation to the point of sale. Retrieved from the Conversion Factors 2023: flat file published by the UK BEIS/Defra at the source URL.

Emission intensity of metals (closed-loop recycled source) The emission factor should be used to report on consumption of procured recycled materials. The emission factor covers sorting/processing/manufacturing and transportation to the point of sale. Retrieved from the Conversion Factors 2024: flat file published by the UK BEIS/Defra at the source URL.

Property	Value
Name	Gold (market for gold)
Sector	Materials and Manufacturing
Category	Metals
Source	ecoinvent
Region	Global (GLOBAL)
Unit Type	Weight
Year	2011
LCA Activity	unknown

Gold (market for gold)

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Steel production

Alloy steel - flat-rolled >600mm cold-rolled annealed

Alloy steel - flat-rolled >600mm hot-rolled