====== 2.A - Mineral Industry (OVERVIEW) ======

^ 2.A - Mineral Industry                                                                                                                   ^
| [[Sector:IPPU:Mineral_Industry:Cement_Production:Start| 2.A.1 Cement Production]]                                                        |
| [[Sector:IPPU:Mineral_Industry:Lime_Production:Start| 2.A.2 Lime Production]]                                                            |
| [[Sector:IPPU:Mineral_Industry:Glass_Production:Start| 2.A.3 Glass Production]]                                                          |
| [[Sector:IPPU:Mineral_Industry:Quarrying_Mining:Start| 2.A.5.a Quarrying and Mining of Minerals other than Coal]]                        |
| [[Sector:IPPU:Mineral_Industry:Construction_Demolition:Start| 2.A.5.b Construction and Demolition]]                                      |
| [[Sector:IPPU:Mineral_Industry:Storage_Handling_Transport_Minerals:Start| 2.A.5.c Storage, Handling and Transport of Mineral Products]]  |
| [[Sector:IPPU:Mineral_Industry:Other_Mineral_Products:Start| 2.A.6 Other Mineral Products: Ceramics]]                                    |

The Mineral Industry comprises six different sub-categories partly divergent to reporting format of Greenhouse Gases (CRF). The main categories are the Cement Production (2.A.1), Lime Production (2.A.2), Glass Production (2.A.3). But further mineral industries are important regarding other specific emissions, highlighted here: Mining other than coal (2.A.5.a), Construction (2.A.5.b) and Ceramics Production (2.A.6).    

[{{2A-overview_air.png|**Emissions of air pollutants**}}]

[{{2A-overview_HM.PNG|**Emissions of heavy metals**}}]


====Discussion of emission Trends====

[{{:sector:ippu:mineral_industry:em_2a_air_since_1990.png|**Emission trends in NFR 2.A**}}]

The steep reduction especially for TSP and SO<sub>2</sub> at the beginning of the 1990s was due especially to closures in the eastern German industrial sector. The last statistic of the GDR[(Emissionsberichte 1985 - 1989 / released by Statistischen Amt der DDR, not public, but existing copy in UBA-Library under signature LU350633/1989)] is the source for emissions data of year 1990 for eastern Germany in cases of TSP and SO<sub>2</sub>, in principle absolut amounts of emissions not old emission factors within a calculation.
These unusual emissions are allocated to [[Sector:IPPU:Mineral_Industry:Other_Mineral_Products:Start| 2.A.6 Other Mineral Products]].