Ferronickel (cobalt production)

The activity generating the emissions is cobalt production. The reference product is ferronickel. Ferronickel is a metal. Ferronickel is an alloy of iron with 20-50% nickel content as alloying element, which is a transition metal. It is the direct product from mining and beneficiation and a by-product from cobalt production. It can be used in the following applications and/or processes: mainly for manufacturing of stainless steels, as starting material in the preparation of chemicals and rure metals, reducing agent, in other nonferrous alloys and amorphous metals. 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/22963/documentation.