Emission Factor

Zinc concentrate (bulk lead- to generic markets for and lead concentrate)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is bulk lead-zinc concentrate to generic markets for zinc concentrate and lead concentrate. The reference product is zinc concentrate. Zinc concentrate is a metal. It has a 59% zinc content, which is a transition metal. It is the direct product from mining and beneficiation and a by-product of gold-silver mine operation and beneficiation. It is in a form of powder. It can be used in the following applications and/or processes: most often as input to zinc smelting, either electrometallurgical smelting or the less common pyrometallurgical smelting. 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/20150/documentation.

PropertyValue
NameZinc concentrate (bulk lead- to generic markets for and lead concentrate)
SectorMaterials and Manufacturing
CategoryMetals
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.11
Region
Unit Type
Year
2012
Year Released
2024
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0000kg/kg
LCA Activity
unknown
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
metals-type_zinc_concentrate_bulk_lead_zinc_concentrate_to_generic_markets_for_zinc_concentrate_and_lead_concentrate
UUID
87033882-873a-4a52-98d4-b2fae496a9ef
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