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Emission factor summary
The activity generating the emissions is treatment of sulfidic tailing, off-site, high gold content. The Reference Product is gold, unrefined. Gold, unrefined is a metal. It is soft and yellow and it is the most ductile and malleable of the metals. Unrefined gold has a purity of 60-95% and it is a transition metal. It is the direct product of mining, beneficiation and smelting. It can be used in the following applications and/or processes: coinage, ornaments, jewellery, gilding, textile industry, electronics, for high conductivity and suppressing secondary emissions, gold-plated grid wire, etc. 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/21356/documentation
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Gold - unrefined (treatment of sulfidic tailing - off-site - high gold content) |
| Sector | Waste |
| Category | Waste Management |
| Source | ecoinvent |
| Source Dataset | Cut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.12 |
| Region | |
| Year | 2012 |
| Year Released | 2025 |
| Emission Factor | |
| Scopes | XX,XX |
LCA Activity | source_specific |
Supported CO2e Calculation Method | xxx |
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