Brazil

Switzerland

India

Rest-of-World

Sand (market for sand)

Afghanistan

Albania

Argentina

Australia

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bangladesh

Bulgaria

Bhutan

Botswana

Canada

China

Colombia

Czechia

Germany

Egypt

Spain

Ethiopia

United Kingdom

Georgia

Greece

Hungary

Indonesia

Iran, Islamic Republic of

Japan

Kyrgyzstan

Cambodia

Korea, Democratic People's Republic of

Korea, Republic of

Kazakhstan

Lao People's Democratic Republic

Montenegro

North Macedonia

Myanmar

Mongolia

Malawi

Mexico

Malaysia

Mozambique

Niger

Nigeria

Norway

Nepal

New Zealand

Peru

Philippines (the)

Pakistan

Poland

Romania

Serbia

Russian Federation (the)

Slovenia

Slovakia

Eswatini

Thailand

Tajikistan

Türkiye

Tanzania, United Republic of

Ukraine

United States of America (the)

Uzbekistan

Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Viet Nam

South Africa

Zambia

Zimbabwe

Fugitive methane emissions from coal mining

Austria

Belgium

Cyprus

Denmark

Estonia

France

Croatia

Ireland

Italy

Lithuania

Latvia

Malta

Portugal

Central Asia and Pacific Asia, Oceania, Antarctica

East Europe and Iceland

Africa except Egypt and South Africa

Latin America except Brazil

Middle East, Asia and Egypt

Sweden

Stone

Finland

Netherlands

Taiwan (Province of China)

Other nonferrous metal ores and concentrates

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.10. The product "sand" represents an average type of sand extracted. Sand is co-produced with gravel where production of 1 kg represents 35% sand and 65% gravel. The largest use of construction sand and gravel is as aggregate for the production of concrete. The second largest use is as foundation material for highways railways runways etc. Other major uses include aggregate for hot mix asphalt and filler for highway dam and other back-filling. Smaller volumes of construction sand and gravel are used in plaster and gunite sands snow and ice control and railroad ballast. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is market activity. The reference product amount is 1.

Property	Value
Name	Sand (market for sand)
Sector	Materials and Manufacturing
Category	Mined Materials
Source	ecoinvent
Region	Brazil (BR), Switzerland (CH), India (IN), Rest-of-World (RoW)
Unit Type	Weight
Year	2011 2014 2015
LCA Activity	Refer to source

Sand (market for sand)

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Stone

Other nonferrous metal ores and concentrates