CLIC Curated Life cycle Inventory Collection

Cobalt

copper-cobalt mining, industrial, mass allocation

Reference product copper-cobalt ore CD

Published Version 1.0.0 Latest published

Stable dataset identity copper-cobalt-mining-industrial-mass-allocation

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Unit
kilogram
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CC BY 4.0
Published
2026-07-15
Version
1.0.0
Technology maturity
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Published inventory

Overview

Scope, source, release context, and stable identifying information.

Description

Copper-cobalt industrial mining, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The only technosphere input is diesel for the caterpillar. Adapted in Arvidsson, R., Chordia, M. & Nordelöf, A. Quantifying the life-cycle health impacts of a cobalt-containing lithium-ion battery. Int J Life Cycle Assess (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11367-022-02084-3 from Cobalt Life Cycle Analysis Update for the GREET Model, Dai et al. 2018.

Source

Scientific journal publication

Arvidsson, R., Chordia, M., & Nordelöf, A. (2022). Quantifying the life-cycle health impacts of a cobalt-containing lithium-ion battery. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11367-022-02084-3. Underlying cobalt inventory: Dai et al. (2018), Cobalt Life Cycle Analysis Update for the GREET Model.

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Dataset details

Classification
Cobalt (materials/metals/cobalt)
Background database
ecoinvent / 3.9
Background system model
cut-off
Biosphere database
ecoinvent / 3.9
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These are the source profiles for this version. Foreground modelling assumptions and allocation belong in the dataset description.

Classification path: Materials > Metals and mineral feedstocks > Cobalt

Keywords

  • metals and mineral feedstocks
  • cobalt

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Technology profile

Technology characterization

Scale, utilization, production, and lifetime data. Missing values remain visible to guide future metadata improvements.

Commercial maturity stage
Mature commercial
Design capacity
Not provided
Design capacity unit
Not provided
Capacity factor
Not provided
Annual production volume
Not provided
Annual production volume unit
Not provided
Annual production volume year
Not provided
Plant lifetime
Not provided

Inventory workspace

Inventory & impacts

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Precalculated screening profile

Environmental impacts

Results per kilogram, using UVEK 2025 and the ecoinvent 3.10 biosphere. Exchange rows are shaded from green to red by relative contribution to the selected indicator.

Climate change 0.0112096 kg CO2-Eq / kilogram
Screening result

This screening result uses Brightpath mappings from the source background to UVEK 2025; mapped suppliers are not claims of scientific equivalence.

Show all 16 indicator totals
Acidification 3.6239e-05 mol H+-Eq / kilogram
Climate change 0.0112096 kg CO2-Eq / kilogram
Freshwater ecotoxicity 0.0221543 CTUe / kilogram
Freshwater eutrophication 4.5308e-07 kg P-Eq / kilogram
Marine eutrophication 1.6308e-05 kg N-Eq / kilogram
Terrestrial eutrophication 0.000176277 mol N-Eq / kilogram
Human toxicity, cancer 5.7382e-12 CTUh / kilogram
Human toxicity, non-cancer 6.6916e-11 CTUh / kilogram
Ionising radiation 0.00044254 kBq U235-Eq / kilogram
Land use 0.0130328 dimensionless / kilogram
Ozone depletion 2.3190e-10 kg CFC-11-Eq / kilogram
Particulate matter 2.1101e-08 disease incidence / kilogram
Photochemical ozone formation 6.4713e-05 kg NMVOC-Eq / kilogram
Resource use, fossils 0.143219 MJ, net calorific value / kilogram
Resource use, minerals and metals 3.2960e-05 kg Sb-Eq / kilogram
Water use 0.00200015 m3 world Eq deprived / kilogram
Calculation details

Profile uvek-2025-ef-v3-1-4e70d56a85b1 · artifact 4e70d56a85b1 · calculated 2026-09-30 13:57 UTC. These screening results do not replace a reviewed comparative LCA.

Dataset contents

Reference flows, emissions, technosphere inputs, and natural resources in this published snapshot.

Outputs

Reference flow

1 row

Reference production exchanges extracted from the uploaded inventory.

Exchange Reference / categories Amount Unit Metadata Climate change contribution
copper-cobalt mining, industrial, mass allocation
CD
copper-cobalt ore
1
kilogram - Reference flow

Emissions

2 rows

Elementary flows emitted from the dataset to the environment.

Exchange Reference / categories Amount Unit Metadata Climate change contribution
Particulate Matter, > 2.5 um and < 10um
air
2.62e-04
kilogram -
0 kg CO2-Eq / kilogram 0.0% of total
EF biosphere factor
Particulate Matter, < 2.5 um
air
2.71e-05
kilogram -
0 kg CO2-Eq / kilogram 0.0% of total
EF biosphere factor

Inputs

Technosphere inputs

1 row

Linked foreground or background product inputs used by this dataset.

Exchange Reference / categories Amount Unit Metadata Climate change contribution
market for diesel, burned in building machine
GLO
diesel, burned in building machine
0.11
megajoule -
0.0112096 kg CO2-Eq / kilogram 100.0% of total
BAFU:2025

Natural resources

6 rows

Elementary flows withdrawn from the environment by this dataset.

Exchange Reference / categories Amount Unit Metadata Climate change contribution
Cobalt
natural resource / in ground
4.70e-03
kilogram -
0 kg CO2-Eq / kilogram 0.0% of total
EF biosphere factor
Copper
natural resource / in ground
0.02
kilogram -
0 kg CO2-Eq / kilogram 0.0% of total
EF biosphere factor
Water, unspecified natural origin
natural resource / in ground
3.13e-05
cubic meter -
0 kg CO2-Eq / kilogram 0.0% of total
EF biosphere factor
Occupation, mineral extraction site
natural resource / land
2.36e-06
square meter-year -
0 kg CO2-Eq / kilogram 0.0% of total
EF biosphere factor
Transformation, from unspecified
natural resource / land
7.83e-08
square meter -
0 kg CO2-Eq / kilogram 0.0% of total
EF biosphere factor
Transformation, to mineral extraction site
natural resource / land
7.83e-08
square meter -
0 kg CO2-Eq / kilogram 0.0% of total
EF biosphere factor

Parameters

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Quality & review

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Quality and maturity

TRL scale Higher is more mature. 9: routine commercial deployment 8: commercial, but still niche or scaling 7: first-commercial or advanced demonstration 6: engineering-scale demonstration 5: pilot or large prototype 4: bench or lab validated 3: research-stage concept Technology readiness level
1 to 5 scale Lower is better. 1: strong market- or operating-data basis 2: commercially plausible, but still somewhat specific 3: partly representative, with modelling or adaptation bias 4: pilot, proxy-based, scaled-up, or prospective 5: weak representation of the real technology state Technological representativeness
1 to 5 scale Lower is better. 1: geography matches the claimed scope well 2: regionally credible, but broader or less exact 3: generic regional or global proxy 4: weak proxy or clear geographic mismatch 5: geography is effectively unsupported Geographical representativeness
1 to 5 scale Lower is better. 1: current for that technology class 2: slightly dated, but still good 3: dated enough to need caution 4: stale, pilot-era, or prospective relative to current practice 5: clearly not representative of the current state Temporal representativeness

Missing exchange uncertainty generation: Not requested

Representativeness scores use a 1–5 scale when provided. Lower scores indicate a closer fit to the modeled technology, geography, or time period.

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