Iron ore concentrate (rare earth element mine operation and beneficiation - bastnaesite and monazite ore)

The activity generating the emissions is rare earth element mine operation and beneficiation, bastnaesite and monazite ore. The reference product is iron ore concentrate. Iron ore concentrate is a metal. It has a 66.15% iron content, which is a transition metal. It is the direct product from mining and beneficiation and a by-product of rare earth element mine operation and beneficiation. It is in a form of powder. It can be used in the following applications and/or processes: further processing at sinter and pellet plants for iron and steel production. 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/23162/documentation.