Mine infrastructure - open cast - uranium (market for mine infrastructure - open cast - uranium)

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.10. This is an immobile infrastructure representing the construction of a mine infrastructure open cast uranium. The infrastructure uses U3O8 0.2% with grade and it has an annual capacity of 8.1E5 kg uranium. The open cast equipment consists mainly of draglines of 35 m3 capacity for the overburden hydraulic backhoes of 7.5 m3 capacity for the waste rock and shovel loaders of the same size for the ore. Only with increasing depth is harder waste rock encountered so that drilling and blasting is also necessary. The process includes building materials and land use. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is market activity. The reference product amount is 1.