Mischmetal (production - primary)

The activity generating the emissions is mischmetal production, primary. The reference product is mischmetal. Mischmetal is a mixture of metals. The product contains 53% Ce, 21% La, 17% Nd, 6% Pr, 0.2% Sm, the rest consisting of Eu, Gd and others. It is produced from bastnaesite by wet chemical attack and fused salt electrolysis. It can be used in the following applications and/or processes: metal hydride batteries and alloying constituent in HSLA steels. 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/2683/documentation.