Samarium oxide (rare earth oxides production - from rare earth carbonate concentrate)

The activity generating the emissions is rare earth oxides production, from rare earth carbonate concentrate. The Reference Product is samarium oxide. Samarium is a lanthanide, a rare earth element, that is mostly obtained from the oxide mineral deposits of monzanite and bastnaesite located in China, as well as the ion adsorption clays of southern China. Overall, China represents approximately 93% of world samarium production. Samarium oxide (Sm2O3) has a number of commercial applications, including in inks and toners, samarium-cobalt magnets The Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/23830/documentation