Next, the materials of the method inventories, or, so to speak, the foreground system of the LCA mannequin (see Section 3.1), have been prolonged by the aggregated background processes (see Table iii of the Supplementary materials) of ecoinvent to create a cradle-to-gate stock for the production of 1-kg gold for case B. This condensed desk comprises in its rows the required power by energy source and a few resulting emissions for the respective aggregated background processes in the columns. Co...