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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is silver-gold mine operation with refinery. The Reference Product is silver. Silver is a metal. It has a lustrous white appearence. Refined silver has a purity of 99.50% and it is a transition metal. It is a direct product of the Merrill-Crowe process , dried, smelted and finally refined with the Wohlwill and Möbius electrolysis. It is also a by-product of gold-silver mine operation with refinery and primary zinc production from concentrate. It can be used in the following applications and/or processes: many different industrial applications, photography, jewellery, etc 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/11034/documentation

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NameSilver (-gold mine operation with refinery)
SectorMaterials and Manufacturing
CategoryMined Materials
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.12
Region
Year
2002
Year Released
2025
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0000kg/kg
Scopes
XX,XX
LCA Activity
source_specific
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
xxx
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

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