Is there an Asteroid Base / Station where you can just fly out and start mining Pristine reserves?
No Super Cruising. Just wake and bake.
No Super Cruising. Just wake and bake.
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Asteroid Base in Pristine Metallic or Pristine Ice Rings?
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I don't think so.
If there was such station, there would already be tons of moaning posts about how broken mining is.
In all seriousness, though, there are only a handful of asteroid stations and as far as I know, all are built in rocky asteroids. I think they are much easier to dig in.
If there was such station, there would already be tons of moaning posts about how broken mining is.
In all seriousness, though, there are only a handful of asteroid stations and as far as I know, all are built in rocky asteroids. I think they are much easier to dig in.
It would be cool to mine in sight of the Station.
But Rocky is certainly no good.
Easier to dig a base in Rocky for sure, never thought about that. Guess digging an Ice Base would have some challenges.
But Rocky is certainly no good.
Easier to dig a base in Rocky for sure, never thought about that. Guess digging an Ice Base would have some challenges.
LTT 4961 - Greg's legacy, apparently in a metallic ring, no idea if it's pristine, I haven't scanned the body.
That is a metal-rich ring with major resources.
Still good for mining as long as you're not looking for the 3Ps.
If there was such station, there would already be tons of moaning posts about how broken mining is.
Even if your refinery automatically teleported metals to the most profitable market and sold them for you mining STILL wound't be able to be that lucrative
Even if your refinery automatically teleported metals to the most profitable market and sold them for you mining STILL wound't be able to be that lucrative
Even if every fragment of the rock was a full unit of metal, you'd still not be that profitable.
Not an Asteroid Station, but it is metres away from a pristine metallic ring, is Artemis Lodge in Celeano
https://eddb.io/system/20053
https://eddb.io/system/20053
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Artemis Lodge. Wonderful place. Pristine metallic ring.
I am very new to mining, just successfully harvested my first 50 million in a single trip so I am far from seasoned. That said, my first run at deep core mining I just wanted to try it out so I found a system whose economy was mining industrial. Found a ring in that system (not pristine) and went searching for my first motherlode. 20 minutes or so in I found my first one. Screwed the pooch on cracking it because I didn't know what I was doing. When I finally cracked it I damaged my ship pretty substantially because I was too close to the blast. lol, I harvested a little bit but wasted most of it in the blast. Found my second motherlode 30 minutes or so later and did a little better on that one. Then went back to the station I bought my mining modules from in that same system and made about 5 million for the hour. Not that good but considering how little I knew and researched I think that was quite well. Last night I tried again but searched for a pristine icy ring in EDDB and went to the first system that was closest that had 2 pristine rings on 2 planets. #1 planet was a dud but #2 had several hot spots. I dropped in an Alexandrite hot spot and was able to find a motherlode about every 10-15 minutes or so. Got a lot better at blowing them up so I didn't waste as much material. Filled up my aspx explorer (96 tons of material) in a couple hours or so and then did a search on inara to find the highest place to sell the material. That is the real key is finding where to sell you goods. If there is a station floating in the ring, the demand is probably very low so the price will also be much lower. You want your hard efforts to yield maximum credits so be sure to find the closest but best payout for your load. Good luck commander!
Also not an asteroid base, but Rho Platform in HIP 100539 there is an outpost in the rings around a brown dwarf. Pristine reserves, and while the outpost is in the rocky ring, there's also a metallic ring there. Depending on where you're coming from, might be closer than the Pleiades.