Emission Factor

Mine infrastructure - open cast - uranium (market for)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is market for mine infrastructure, open cast, uranium. The Reference Product is mine infrastructure, open cast, uranium. 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 Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/854/documentation

PropertyValue
NameMine infrastructure - open cast - uranium (market for)
SectorBuildings and Infrastructure
CategoryConstruction
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.12
Region
Unit Type
Year
2011
Year Released
2025
Emission Factor
  • CO2e
    kg/number
Scopes3.1, 3.2
LCA Activity
cradle_to_consumer
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
construction-type_mine_infrastructure_open_cast_uranium_market_for_mine_infrastructure_open_cast_uranium
UUID
b1ca003f-6eae-49ee-821c-22ff86740f8d
Code Snippet
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