Rare earth oxide concentrate - 50% REO (rare earth element mine operation and beneficiation - bastnaesite and monazite ore)

The activity generating the emissions is rare earth element mine operation and beneficiation, bastnaesite and monazite ore. The reference product is rare earth oxide concentrate, 50% REO. Rare earth oxide concentrate, 50% REO is a metal. It has a 50% rare earth oxide (REO) concentrate content of cerium, lanthanum, neodymium, samarium, europium and gadolinium. Cerium, europium, neodymium, samarium, praseodymium and gadolinium are Light Rare Earth Elements (LREE) while lanthanum is Heavy Rare Earth Element (HREE). It is the direct product from mining and beneficiation and a by-product from scandium oxide production. It is in a form of powder. It can be used in the following applications and/or processes: production of rechargeable batteries for electric and hybrid cars, advanced ceramics, computers, DVD players, wind turbines, catalysts in cars and oil refineries, monitors, televisions, lighting, lasers, fiber optics, superconductors and glass polishing. 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/22675/documentation.