Chile

Rest-of-World

Gold (silver-gold mine operation with refinery)

Australia

China

Europe, without Russia and Turkey

Indonesia

Latin America

North America

Russian Federation

Hard coal (hard coal mine operation and hard coal preparation)

Quebec, CA

Papua New Guinea

Gold (gold-silver mine operation with refinery)

Brazil

Barite (niobium mine operation and beneficiation - from pyrochlore ore)

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.10. The product 'gold' is a metal. It is soft and yellow it is the most ductile and malleable of the metals. Refined gold has a purity of 99.50% and it is a transition metal. It is the direct product of mining beneficiation and smelting gold ore after being mined and beneficiated while it is the by-product of platinum group metals extraction and refinery operations. 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 cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. The reference product amount is 1.

Emission intensity of supply chain (with margins i.e. cradle to shelf) in US dollars spend on: anthracite mining. This factor is representative of the described goods or services category as defined by the 2017 version of the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Refer to the source for the source-specific data quality assessment. Retrieved from Supply Chain Factors Dataset v1.2.

Anthracite mining

Emission intensity of supply chain (purchase of service/standard good/capital good) in US dollars spend on: mining and quarrying. Factors retrieved from the Quantis+GHG Protocol Scope 3 Calculator for the year 2016 and apply for years beyond 2016. The same emission factor applies to different types of investments in joint ventures/subsidiaries/associate companies that were not captured in Scope 1 emissions.

Mining and quarrying

Emission intensity of supply chain in GBP spend on: mining support services. Provided by BEIS/DEFRA in the official report on UK and England's carbon footprint to 2019. Retrieved from the UK full dataset 1990 - 2020 including conversion factors by SIC code (sheets: ghg_sic_mult and co2_sic_mult).

Mining support services

Emission intensity of supply chain in GBP spend on: mining support services. Provided by BEIS/DEFRA in the official report on UK and England's carbon footprint to 2020.

Emission intensity of supply chain in GBP spend on: other mining and quarrying products. Provided by BEIS/DEFRA in the official report on UK and England's carbon footprint to 2019. Retrieved from the UK full dataset 1990 - 2020 including conversion factors by SIC code (sheets: ghg_sic_mult and co2_sic_mult).

Other mining and quarrying products

Emission intensity of supply chain in GBP spend on: other mining and quarrying products. Provided by BEIS/DEFRA in the official report on UK and England's carbon footprint to 2020.

Emission intensity of supply chain (with margins i.e. cradle to shelf) in US dollars spend on: other support activities for mining. This factor is representative of the described commodity (equivalent to a goods or services category) and was obtained from the USEEIO model. Refer to the source for the source-specific data quality assessment.

Other support activities for mining

Emission intensity of supply chain (with margins i.e. cradle to shelf) in US dollars spend on: other support activities for mining. This factor is representative of the described commodity (equivalent to a goods or services category) and was obtained from the USEEIO model v1.0.1. Refer to the source for the source-specific data quality assessment. Retrieved from Supply Chain Factors Dataset v1.1.1

Emission intensity of supply chain in dollars spend on: services incidental to mining and manufacturing. Provided by the Market Economics Limited 2023 in the Consumption Emissions Modelling report prepared for Auckland Council. Retrieved from the sheet: Cons EF 199 SUT in the excel file: consumption-emissions-modelling-market-economics-march-2023-dataset.

Services incidental to mining and manufacturing

Emission intensity of supply chain in EUR spend on: chemical and fertilizer minerals/salt and other mining and quarrying products (not specified in other EXIOBASE emission factors). Retrieved from the EXIOBASE v3.8.2 model outputs for products. These factors were calculated based on 2019 data. CO2 equivalent factors incorporate emissions from land use; constituent gases have not been included as they do not. The LCA boundaries of these factors are not defined by the source. These factors include effects of international trade.

Property	Value
Name	Gold (silver-gold mine operation with refinery)
Sector	Materials and Manufacturing
Category	Mining
Source	ecoinvent
Region	Chile (CL), Rest-of-World (RoW)
Unit Type	Weight
Year	2002
LCA Activity	Refer to source

Emission Factor Name	Region	Source	Year	Unit
Gold (silver-gold mine operation with refinery)	Chile	ecoinvent	2002	Weight
Gold (silver-gold mine operation with refinery)	Rest-of-World	ecoinvent	2002	Weight
Anthracite mining	United States	EPA	2019	Money
Mining and quarrying	Global	GHG Protocol	2016	Money
Mining support services	United Kingdom	BEIS	2019	Money
Mining support services	United Kingdom	BEIS	2020	Money
Other mining and quarrying products	United Kingdom	BEIS	2019	Money
Other mining and quarrying products	United Kingdom	BEIS	2020	Money
Other support activities for mining	United States	EPA	2018	Money
Other support activities for mining	United States	EPA	2018	Money
Services incidental to mining and manufacturing	New Zealand	Market Economics Limited	2023	Money
Chemical and fertilizer minerals/salt and other mining and quarrying products (not elsewhere specified)	Austria	EXIOBASE	2019	Money
Chemical and fertilizer minerals/salt and other mining and quarrying products (not elsewhere specified)	Australia	EXIOBASE	2019	Money
Chemical and fertilizer minerals/salt and other mining and quarrying products (not elsewhere specified)	Belgium	EXIOBASE	2019	Money
Chemical and fertilizer minerals/salt and other mining and quarrying products (not elsewhere specified)	Bulgaria	EXIOBASE	2019	Money
Chemical and fertilizer minerals/salt and other mining and quarrying products (not elsewhere specified)	Brazil	EXIOBASE	2019	Money
Chemical and fertilizer minerals/salt and other mining and quarrying products (not elsewhere specified)	Canada	EXIOBASE	2019	Money
Chemical and fertilizer minerals/salt and other mining and quarrying products (not elsewhere specified)	Switzerland	EXIOBASE	2019	Money
Chemical and fertilizer minerals/salt and other mining and quarrying products (not elsewhere specified)	China	EXIOBASE	2019	Money
Chemical and fertilizer minerals/salt and other mining and quarrying products (not elsewhere specified)	Cyprus	EXIOBASE	2019	Money

Gold (silver-gold mine operation with refinery)

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Hard coal (hard coal mine operation and hard coal preparation)

Gold (gold-silver mine operation with refinery)

Barite (niobium mine operation and beneficiation - from pyrochlore ore)