Zinc concentrate (zinc mine operation)

The activity generating the emissions is zinc mine operation. 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/19790/documentation.