Nickel - class 1 (smelting and refining of nickel concentrate - 7% Ni)

The activity generating the emissions is smelting and refining of nickel concentrate, 7% Ni. The reference product is nickel, class 1. Nickel, class 1 is a metal. It has a silver-white appearance with a 99.70% purity or better. It is a transition metal. It is the direct product from the joint smelting and refining with copper, while it is a by-product from mining, extraction and refinery of platinum group metals. It can be used in the following applications and/or processes: manufacturing of various metal alloys, like stainless steel, other ferrous or non-ferrous alloys, and for other industrial uses like chemicals, catalysts, batteries, welding rods, coinage, pigments for enamels/glasses/ceramics, electronics, printing inks. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/23679/documentation.