Emission Factor

Sulfidic tailing - off-site - high gold content (market for)

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The activity generating the emissions is market for sulfidic tailing, off-site, high gold content. The reference product is sulfidic tailing, off-site, high gold content. Sulfidic tailing, off-site, high gold content is a solid waste under the category of industrial wastes. It is primarily generated in gold mine operation production. sulfidic tailing, off-site, high gold content contain the following fractions: 100% sulfidic tailings with high gold content. By the database default (and per unit of reference product),sulfidic tailing, off-site, high gold content has 30% water on wet mass basis (70% dry matter) and it has no Carbon content. It has no heating value. This kind of by-product (recyclable or waste) is generated from ordinary transforming activities, and as such can be considered for modelling waste outputs of comparable composition. In the ecoinvent database, this by-product is used in the following processes: treatment of sulfidic tailing, off-site, high gold content. This by-product can be modelled on two levels: treatment activity and market activity. The former one refers to the specific technology treating the by-product while the latter level represents a mix of treatments. Users are encouraged to inspect the modelling assumptions of the treatment activities and when selecting the market to additionally inspect the treatment mix. Collection and transportation of this by-product is accounted in the respective market activity, users are advised to inspect and modify the average transportation distances for a case specific modelling. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is Recyclable. The activity type is ordinary market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/19938/documentation.

PropertyValue
NameSulfidic tailing - off-site - high gold content (market for)
SectorMaterials and Manufacturing
CategoryMined Materials
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.11
Region
Unit Type
Year
2015
Year Released
2024
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0000kg/kg
LCA Activity
unknown
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
mined_materials-type_sulfidic_tailing_off_site_high_gold_content_market_for_sulfidic_tailing_off_site_high_gold_content
UUID
4c8072c9-9e8f-423b-8f51-faa748c1523a
Code Snippet
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