Zinc (primary zinc production from concentrate)

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.10. The product 'zinc' is a metal. It is a slightly brittle with a silvery-greyish appearance and it is a transition metal. It is the direct product from zinc concentrate through a hydrometallurgical process and a by-product of gold mine operation and refining. It is in a form of ingots and shot. It can be used in the following applications and/or processes: coating in steel work/die cast and for electroplating to galvanise other metals such as iron to prevent rusting to produce die-castings which are important in the automobile electrical and hardware industries in alloys such as brass nickel silver and aluminium solder. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. The reference product amount is 1.