The filters used do not point to correct material traders. It points to Patterson Enterprise in Sirius for both raw and manufactured, but there's only a manufactured trader there.
Yep. The reason for this is that the type of a material trader (in the bubble - different rules in Colonia) is based on the
primary economy of the station, but the EDDB searches linked there will search for
primary or secondary economy. Most Industrial and High-Tech primary economies have either Extraction or Refinery as a secondary, so searching this way isn't valid. (Conversely, the search leaves out Refinery economies, so will miss the actual Raw material traders in those systems)
Inara and EDSM do proper searches with only primary economy, or you can use the map filters in-game - filter by economy, and set the population filters to 1-22 million, and you should find a system with one pretty quickly.
and looking for manganese seems to be a b word to find
Look for a landable planet with Manganese in its material list, drive around shooting at rocks for a bit, you should get a lot of manganese very quickly. Or go laser-mining around a planet with Manganese in its material list for a more automated approach which will also make you a bit of credits from the mined commodities you get.
If you're finding Manganese difficult, the rest are going to be extremely tough.
Like for real the game devs need to smarten the f up and learn that this highly important stuff needs a revamp.
A badly-constructed search misusing a 3rd-party tool is nothing to do with the devs.
