Quebec, CA

Rest-of-World (Ecoinvent)

Zinc (primary production from concentrate)

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

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The activity generating the emissions is primary zinc production from concentrate. The Reference Product is zinc. Zinc is a metal. It is a slightly brittle, with a silvery-greyish appearance and it is a transition metal. It is the direct product from zinc concentrate through a hydrometallurgical process and a by-product of gold mine operation and refining. It is in a form of ingots and shot. It can be used in the following applications and/or processes: coating in steel work/die cast and for electroplating, to galvanise other metals, such as iron, to prevent rusting, to produce die-castings, which are important in the automobile, electrical and hardware industries, in alloys such as brass, nickel silver and aluminium solder. 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/14209/documentation

The activity generating the emissions is primary zinc production from concentrate. The Reference Product is zinc. Zinc is a metal. It is a slightly brittle, with a silvery-greyish appearance and it is a transition metal. It is the direct product from zinc concentrate through a hydrometallurgical process and a by-product of gold mine operation and refining. It is in a form of ingots and shot. It can be used in the following applications and/or processes: coating in steel work/die cast and for electroplating, to galvanise other metals, such as iron, to prevent rusting, to produce die-castings, which are important in the automobile, electrical and hardware industries, in alloys such as brass, nickel silver and aluminium solder. 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/13957/documentation

Property	Value
Name	Zinc (primary production from concentrate)
Sector	Materials and Manufacturing
Category	Metals
Source	ecoinvent
Region	Quebec, CA (CA-QC), Rest-of-World (Ecoinvent) (ECOINVENT_ROW)
Unit Type	Weight
Year	2011 2015
LCA Activity	source_specific

Emission Factor Name	Region	Source	Year	Unit
Zinc (primary production from concentrate)	Quebec, CA	ecoinvent	2011	Weight
Zinc (primary production from concentrate)	Rest-of-World (Ecoinvent)	ecoinvent	2015	Weight

Zinc (primary production from concentrate)

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