Ilmenite - 54% titanium dioxide (heavy mineral sand quarry operation)

The activity generating the emissions is heavy mineral sand quarry operation. The reference product is ilmenite, 54% titanium dioxide. Ilmenite, 54% titanium dioxide is a metal. It has 54% titanium dioxide content. It is a direct product of mining and beneficiation and a by-product from heavy mineral sand quarry operation. It can be used in the following applications and/or processes: production of alloys used in aircraft parts, artificial joints for humans, and sporting equipment such as bicycle frames, also used to produce titanium metal, produce synthetic rutile, a form of titanium dioxide, used to produce white, highly reflective pigments, used to make titanium dioxide, an inert, white, highly reflective material, used as a whiting and to make powder for polishing abrasives in a variety of lapidary work that includes rock tumbling, lapping, cabbing, sphere making, and faceting. 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/2165/documentation.