Ferronickel (market for ferronickel)

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.10. The product '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 cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is market activity. The reference product amount is 1.