# How does a Kalinganagar ferrochrome plant count chrome ore in Scope 3?

Canonical: https://senseible.earth/answers/kalinganagar-ferrochrome-chrome-ore-scope-3

Chrome ore bought from Sukinda valley mines is a purchased good, Scope 3 category 1: tonnes times a factor for mining and processing, ideally from the mine. Trucking it to the plant is category 4 if you pay for the freight.

## Two lines, two categories

- Category 1: ore tonnes times the mine's figure per tonne. Ask the mine for its diesel, explosives and electricity per tonne if it has no published number.
- Category 4: tonne kilometres by truck or rail times a factor for the mode, when you pay the transporter.

## What is not Scope 3

Ore drying or briquetting inside your own plant is Scope 1. Electricity your plant buys is Scope 2.

## Why bother

It is small next to the furnace, but EU buyers asking for a cradle to gate figure expect it. A mine figure based on its own diesel is better than a generic number.

## What Senseible does here

Senseible reads the energy invoices behind the making stage into a fingerprinted Scope 1 and 2 record, and keeps material invoices on the Scope 3 trail. Material factors come from your supplier or a named database and are labelled with their source, so the product figure can be traced line by line.

- [Ferrochrome CO2 per tonne](https://senseible.earth/answers/ferrochrome-co2-per-tonne-cbam)
- [Hospet mine diesel per tonne](https://senseible.earth/answers/hospet-iron-ore-mine-diesel-per-tonne)
- [Truck freight factors in India](https://senseible.earth/answers/truck-freight-emission-factor-india)

Sources: [GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard](https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-value-chain-scope-3-standard), [Smart Freight Centre, GLEC Framework](https://www.smartfreightcentre.org/en/our-programs/emissions-accounting/global-logistics-emissions-council/)

Last reviewed 2026-10-21.