Cobalt, where do you mine it?

Limoncello Lizard

Limoncello Lizard
I've seen a couple of missions after mined Cobalt.
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I've done a fair bit of mining since 2.1, in metallic, metal rich, rocky and icy rings, but I've never seen Cobalt.
I haven't tried asteroid fields for a while. I will try few of these some time.
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Anyone mined Cobalt yet?
 

Limoncello Lizard

Limoncello Lizard
Buying it isn't likely to work for a mining mission.
And with your reasoning, why mine anything at all?
I like mining. Now there's at least a small reason to mine in all of the ring types.
 

Arnak

Arnak
Hi,


I can confirm that it will work and has done so on many occasions for me.:cool:)

Why mine? Obviously the material is free and you cannot buy all materials!

Plus you enjoy it but for a quick buck the material is quicker to buy when available.
 

cmdr_Havalok

cmdr_Havalok
The Top Tier Ores Osmium, somethingite, and ....two or three others can't be purchased but the lower end, cobalt, gold, silver can be purchased. I have not turned in any for quite a while but back-in-day it did allow you to purchase those for the mission.

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Squady

Squady
While you're at it I wouldn't mind knowing where you can mine low temperature diamond, is it just an uber rare mining drop or as you'd expect in reality are there certain materials which more commonly drop it? I mean corundum forms ruby and sapphire like magic on Earth, to the point where people have gone to war over corundum mines, there must be some mineral that drops Carbon the 6th most common element in the universe. ;)

Oh and Emerald forms extremely commonly on Earth too by comparison to its structure/composition although only found in South America, long story short is there any way of finding this material other than blind luck? Or do I have to go romancing the stone. I know awful joke (good movie though).

To make up for it here's some boring fact: Lapiz lazuli was only found in what is now Afghanistan, way back when, so it was so prized in the middle ages as one of the only materials to paint vivid blue that it was worth more by weight than diamond. All those saint paintings and Mary stuff (with the blue cloaks) cost literally a massive fortune just to paint.
 
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bkrownd

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Squady said:
While you're at it I wouldn't mind knowing where you can mine low temperature diamond, is it just an uber rare mining drop or as you'd expect in reality are there certain materials which more commonly drop it?
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I have variable success with LTD in pristine icy rings. Some days I come back with a cargo of 10% LTD, and other days I don't find any before I have a full cargo hold. I just pick it up as a side-product while doing mining missions, never as a target ore for market.
 

Limoncello Lizard

Limoncello Lizard
I had thought that the mining mission stuff had to actually be mined, just like they do for CGs. It appears I am wrong. Tempting to raise this as a bug, but I won't spoil other player's day by doing this.
 

Squady

Squady
Limoncello Lizard said:
I had thought that the mining mission stuff had to actually be mined, just like they do for CGs. It appears I am wrong. Tempting to raise this as a bug, but I won't spoil other player's day by doing this.
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I think they know.

I've noticed when they hand out missions that often the material in question is not readily available within that area, and its often easier and quicker to mine it. Ironically enough. I think it's deliberate rather than an exploit tbph. End of the day eggs is eggs.
 
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bkrownd

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You really don't have to mine it? Grrrr

I do prefer to mine ores, but for pumping the BGS I'll have to consider taking the most expedient path when purchasing the required ore is possible, and doing that in a ship with a lower insurance rate than my mining Asp.
 
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YinYin

YinYin
My first cobalt mission actually had the station itself selling it.

Didn't even launch the ship.

Didn't check whether I was making any profits that way though (if not, this is absolutely fine - and I'd love to see the "source this" and "mine that" mission types to be unified - only the description/hints making them really differ). But I was after the material reward and reputation anyway.
 

Squady

Squady
That's another thing as well, mining is not the best way to make quick profit and it never has been AFAIK. If you are lucky enough to be able to just buy it, I am sure all the other ones that require you to buy shed loads of gear and wander aimlessly amongst asteroids boringly lazering them, balance out the ones like the above. Much easier bang for buck or time and effort for buck to go out and do non mining missions, especially in the early game. This is particularly true now with Horizons, where you can earn serious money by landing on some planet doing very little of any difficulty and then leaping off the planets surface, it's a gold mine, if you'll pardon the pun. For this reason and the reasons above it does not surprise me at all that you can get lucky and complete a mission almost immediately. It all balances out in the end probably.

Mining is grind central, but it is something different. Ok everything is grind central in pretty much any game, it has to be, but mining is highly ranked on the grind scale.
 
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bkrownd

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Squady said:
Mining is grind central, but it is something different. Ok everything is grind central in pretty much any game, it has to be, but mining is highly ranked on the grind scale.
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I enjoy mining. It's the only completely peaceful no-stress activity in the game (if you avoid gold), and the view is usually awesome. I earn about 2 million a day (5 hours roughly) stacking mining missions from my local neighborhood.
 

Squady

Squady
bkrownd said:
I enjoy mining. It's the only completely peaceful no-stress activity in the game (if you avoid gold), and the view is usually awesome. I earn about 2 million a day (5 hours roughly) stacking mining missions from my local neighborhood.
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Yeah each to their own, I can generally earn 2 million in about 1 hour of doing missions these days, and I am only competent. Sometimes if you get lucky and get destroy power emplacements come up which double up (ie you have to destroy the same one) you can get 2 million in about 30 minutes. Suffice to say we all know mining will pay the bills but its not the best way to rack up cash.
 
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Squady said:
Yeah each to their own, I can generally earn 2 million in about 1 hour of doing missions these days, and I am only competent. Sometimes if you get lucky and get destroy power emplacements come up which double up (ie you have to destroy the same one) you can get 2 million in about 30 minutes. Suffice to say we all know mining will pay the bills but its not the best way to rack up cash.
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I don't do combat, so I don't get combat pay, and that also makes some of the new missions like salvage and expansion/boom data tricky for me. I feel like I'm earning more than I did when I was combining trade and courier missions, because I can stack more missions since there are no enemies to dodge. "Honest work for honest people" and at any time I can park the ship when I need to scold naughty cats or make coffee and snacks - I'm happy. ;)
 
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Squady

Squady
well the drones on surface missions are so hopeless it's like shooting fish in a barrel, I don't really count it as combat it's more like a duck shoot. lol

I got 2 million in ~ 20 minutes once, 3 jumps to the world 34ly away, land near base shoot generator, speed away to ship return: 1.2 million and 800k for the same generator. Blind luck but hey it all counts. The great thing about bases too is if you mine all the data stores you can really rack up the data which is handy for engineers stuff so they say.

You can also use the SSR vehicle to mine rare mats for upgrades if you like super duper guns and FSD leaps.
 
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AJW

AJW
YinYin said:
My first cobalt mission actually had the station itself selling it.

Didn't even launch the ship.

Didn't check whether I was making any profits that way though (if not, this is absolutely fine - and I'd love to see the "source this" and "mine that" mission types to be unified - only the description/hints making them really differ). But I was after the material reward and reputation anyway.
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Just had the same thing. Bought Cobalt from the station (Creamer Dock, Chias Vega), and turned it in immediately. Got myself a chemical manipulator as part of the reward, which I needed for a FSD boost. :D
 
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