mining locations

Please for the love of god please fix the 95% rate of false positives while using the pulse wave scanner, I swear about 95% of what LOOKS like a bright glowing asteroid is nothing but junk and is 100% NOT a node that can be cracked open to harvest. I have now wasted over 100 limpets on nodes...

I'm looking for some advice to get me started doing a bit of mining in Colonia. What type of mining, what ship, and where? I play ED sporadically - I've recently completed a trip to Colonia. I'll probably head on to Sag A after a bit, but want to break up the journey for now. I've never done...

o7, fellow CMDRs, as stated above, I am aware that there are posts about mining in this forum, but my search for it got a bit overwhelming for me. I am new to Elite and just a few hours in. I play Horizons on an asthmatic laptop with an XBox 360 game pad. As of now, I play solo, as my combat...