Australia

Germany

Vermiculite

United Arab Emirates (the)

Afghanistan

Antigua and Barbuda

Albania

Angola

Argentina

Austria

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

Copper / nickel / lead and zinc mining

Cut stone and stone product manufacturing

Ground or treated mineral and earth manufacturing

Emission intensity of vermiculite at mine. Retrieved from the file AusLCI_1.42_EF_Published in the source URL. Data quality flag: Methodology - The source does not specify the IPCC AR version of GWPs used to calculate CO2e.

Vermiculite (at mine)

Emission intensity of vermiculite. Retrieved from the file Informationsblatt CO2-Faktoren v3.3 in the source URL. Data quality flag: Methodology - The source does not specify the IPCC AR version of GWPs used to calculate CO2e.

The activity generating the emissions is vermiculite mine operation. The Reference Product is vermiculite. The product "vermiculite" represents a mineral. It is mined, and used as raw material for expanded vermiculite production. Vermiculite is utilized in the construction industry for thermal and sound insulation. 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/2227/documentation

Vermiculite (mine operation)

The activity generating the emissions is vermiculite mine operation. The Reference Product is vermiculite. The product "vermiculite" represents a mineral. It is mined, and used as raw material for expanded vermiculite production. Vermiculite is utilized in the construction industry for thermal and sound insulation. 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/3065/documentation

The activity generating the emissions is market for vermiculite. The Reference Product is vermiculite. The product "vermiculite" represents a mineral. It is mined, and used as raw material for expanded vermiculite production. Vermiculite is utilized in the construction industry for thermal and sound insulation. The Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/1507/documentation

Vermiculite (market for)

Property	Value
Name	Vermiculite And 2 Other Names Vermiculite Vermiculite (at mine)
Sector	Materials and Manufacturing
Category	Mined Materials
Source	AusLCI, Bafa
Region	Australia (AU), Germany (DE)
Unit Type	Weight
Year	2022 2025
LCA Activity	cradle_to_gate, unknown

Emission Factor Name	Region	Source	Year	Unit
Vermiculite (at mine)	Australia	AusLCI	2022	Weight
Vermiculite	Germany	Bafa	2025	Weight
Vermiculite (mine operation)	South Africa	ecoinvent	2000	Weight
Vermiculite (mine operation)	Rest-of-World (Ecoinvent)	ecoinvent	2000	Weight
Vermiculite (market for)	Global	ecoinvent	2011	Weight

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