Rhodium (platinum group metal - extraction and refinery operations)

The activity generating the emissions is platinum group metal, extraction and refinery operations. The reference product is rhodium. Rhodium is a metal. It is a noble metal, it is characterized as one of the most rare and valuable precious metals, and it is a transition metal. It is a by-product produced in the joint production of palladium, nickel, platinum, and copper. It can be used in the following applications and/or processes: many industrial processes such as glass, glass fibre and nitric acid production, as catalyst in catalytic converters. 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/22015/documentation.