Samarium oxide (rare earth oxides production - from rare earth carbonate concentrate)

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.10. The product samarium is a lanthanide a rare earth element that is mostly obtained from the oxide mineral deposits of monzanite and bastnaesite located in China as well as the ion adsorption clays of southern China. Overall China represents approximately 93% of world samarium production. Samarium oxide (Sm2O3) has a number of commercial applications including in inks and toners samarium-cobalt magnets The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. The reference product amount is 1.