Exploring and Mining?

Surly_Badger

Surly_Badger
Himilco said:
I must admit, I don't mind moving commodities around for profit and political influence. In fact, I quite like it. But actually being a PRODUCER of commodities has never appealed to me much...until this thread.
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Here's another thing to consider:
I just saw someone posting "WHERE DO I GET PAINITE!?" in another thread. There are mining missions that pay 100k for a ton of painite. I have 6 tons in my hold right now, along with 20 of platinum. If I fly around and look for mining missions requesting those materials, I will make a pretty penny. Not that there is such a thing as an ugly penny.

I also may hang out and offer to vent a ton of painite for people that need them. I'm not sure what they can do to repay me (except go get a big bounty and come let me harvest it)
 

matemaster

matemaster
superflyguy said:
I read somewhere the the best/only mining missions are at HiTech systems. I haven't checked it out so can't confirm.
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I can confirm this.
yesterday I went to HiTech system with pristine reserves-metallic ring and with 2 hi intensity RES. The station within the system has high demand for all metals except silver which is medium demand. This is ideal place for mining/combat and also in the BB I picked 4 mining missions each worth over 100K
System name HIP 16607
 

Agony_Aunt

Agony_Aunt
Surly - in your ventures did you see a pattern for finding good quality rings? Were specific star types more likely to yield metallic rings for example? Were some star types ducks for good rings?

Thinking of following in your footsteps since i've discovered a love of mining and have a love of exploration.
 

Gorrister

Gorrister
Surly_Badger said:
I found this system, which I call "El Dorado"

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Formerly pristine metallic rings around a gas giant. It's more metal than humanity can value. And it's rich strikes everywhere.

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This is an authentic shot from El Dorado. Looks remarkably similar.
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Some of the rocks were crazy; I found one that dropped 20 chunks of platinum ~30% palladium ~40%. I was tired just watching my hoppers fill.

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All in all I spent about 4 hours mining El Dorado and now my holds are full. The question is whether to explore further or come back in and sell this load.

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One thing I can confirm is that painite is not only present in high intensity RES back in civilized space. Out here, in the deep black, with unimaginably enormous rings, it waits for the bold and well-equipped explorer to come tease it out.
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Would you please post it in my thread the next time? Or wright it down and give me the names so I can update my list. Thank you.
 

Surly_Badger

Surly_Badger
Gorrister said:
Would you please post it in my thread the next time? Or wright it down and give me the names so I can update my list. Thank you.
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I'll post it when I get home and drop my explorer data. I'm on the way home now, in fact. Since my jump range is seriously compromised by 150t of precious metals, I'm making 13ly jumps...

For now I am only posting this stuff here because I figure a limited number of people read my threads. ;) I have found so much stuff that it's not like I have to worry about a claim jumper.

Agony_Aunt said:
Surly - in your ventures did you see a pattern for finding good quality rings? Were specific star types more likely to yield metallic rings for example? Were some star types ducks for good rings?
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Until last night I would have said you're most likely to find metallic rings around gas giants near the middle of the system (500-1000ly out from the star) but I think that's completely wrong. Someone ought to ask Jackie Silver if ve is keeping that sort of data as well as stellar formation data.

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("La diamante")

Last night I found a metallic world right up near its star, with metallic rings. They were delicious - another El Dorado. But I'm not seeing anything that's significantly better in the ring department. I think there's probably a maximum metal content that you hit pretty quickly in a pristine metallic. There seems to be some variation as to the metals. The rings around stars aren't as valuable as the rings around gas giants. I wonder if FD modelled that as that gas giants tend to sometimes have moons that are metallic, which get ripped apart by gravity into rings?

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The severe beauty of these places amazes me. And they are full of valuable metal!!!

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I float alone in space, while Wheezy scurries back and forth filling my hold. After 20 minutes at la Diamante, I had to vent all the osmium I had collected, to make room for the platinum.
 
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Kancro Vantas

Kancro Vantas
Surly_Badger said:
I'll post it when I get home and drop my explorer data. I'm on the way home now, in fact. Since my jump range is seriously compromised by 150t of precious metals, I'm making 13ly jumps...

For now I am only posting this stuff here because I figure a limited number of people read my threads. ;) I have found so much stuff that it's not like I have to worry about a claim jumper.



Until last night I would have said you're most likely to find metallic rings around gas giants near the middle of the system (500-1000ly out from the star) but I think that's completely wrong. Someone ought to ask Jackie Silver if ve is keeping that sort of data as well as stellar formation data.

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("La diamante")

Last night I found a metallic world right up near its star, with metallic rings. They were delicious - another El Dorado. But I'm not seeing anything that's significantly better in the ring department. I think there's probably a maximum metal content that you hit pretty quickly in a pristine metallic. There seems to be some variation as to the metals. The rings around stars aren't as valuable as the rings around gas giants. I wonder if FD modelled that as that gas giants tend to sometimes have moons that are metallic, which get ripped apart by gravity into rings?

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The severe beauty of these places amazes me. And they are full of valuable metal!!!

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I float alone in space, while Wheezy scurries back and forth filling my hold. After 20 minutes at la Diamante, I had to vent all the osmium I had collected, to make room for the platinum.
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This sounds very interesting and nice SB!!! Glad your having fun with it man!!

Question: if I am reading this right, you are finding painite right in metallic rings?

Speaking of metallic rings, I am really surprised with the quantity I have found in the last 10,000 light years at least -when I started noticed- because it amounts to the grand total of zero...

Not that I am hunting metallic rings at this point, to be fair -25,000 ly away from civvy- but none of the ringed planets I've come to scan during that length have come up with a METALLIC one...

I am now starting to make note of it and definitely will start the hunt...can't believe they are THAT rare outside the bubble -where I know at least a system that has five metallic and pristine rings-.
 

Dommarraa

Dommarraa
I have just tooled up my new Conda for Mining. 256 Cargo with 200 Limpets. Lets see how much Painite I can find near the bubble.
Smoke me a kipper, I WONT be back for breakfast.


Edit : Thats a good start. 1st Jump and my System Map gets stuck half open during the jump charge. I lose all control of the ship, and crash into the star. 1% Hull Damage
 
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Surly_Badger

Surly_Badger
Kancro Vantas said:
Question: if I am reading this right, you are finding painite right in metallic rings?
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Correct. Not much. In El Dorado, I found 2 rocks that dropped chunks that were 10%-20% painite. So it's pretty rare. But it's there. If I was just interested in cash-farming I'd stick with RES because I suppose FD shifts the discovery spectrum toward the more valuable end, in order to lure CMDRs into pew pew pew galleries.

It seems to me that the A rings of big ringed gas giants are the place to look. Though La Diamante is completely the opposite of what I was expecting.

On the other hand, the metallic rings in El Dorado are so rich that if I came out with some prospector limpets along with my collectors, in an Anaconda or something that could make the jumps in reasonable time (my Python is not jumping very well with her hold full of 130tons of precious metal...) I could have a great deal of fun out here.

Kancro Vantas said:
Speaking of metallic rings, I am really surprised with the quantity I have found in the last 10,000 light years at least -when I started noticed- because it amounts to the grand total of zero...
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Could it be you're not looking?
Metallic rings appear to me to be about as rare as Earth-Like Worlds. In fact, I've found more ELWs on this trip than metallic rings. In terms of value - pfff.... a metallic ring is worth a lot more than another terraformable planet, to anyone who is willing to come do some mining.

Kancro Vantas said:
Not that I am hunting metallic rings at this point, to be fair -25,000 ly away from civvy- but none of the ringed planets I've come to scan during that length have come up with a METALLIC one...

I am now starting to make note of it and definitely will start the hunt...can't believe they are THAT rare outside the bubble -where I know at least a system that has five metallic and pristine rings-.
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I bet those rings are crawling with pirates, though.

The nice thing about La Diamante and El Dorado is that they're a fairly easy hop from the bubble.

One thing I am considering is forming a wing of explorer/miners. Apparently if you are exploring in a wing, the discoveries are shared by all wing-members in the system. Which means that a wing could explore very quickly - e.g: CMDR Alice takes the gas giants, I take the water-world and earthlikes, and CMDR bob takes the metallics. Then when we find a metallic ring, we pause to mine it for a while. Realistically, though, I suspect it'd be a pain doing it as a wing. Though I don't really understand if the jump-lock equates to auto-follow or just destination lock. If a whole wing could auto-follow one ship then someone could lead a wing to a nice ring for some mining while they AFK'd all the way out. I am still trying to think how to do this.

The other idea I like would be to announce what metals I have (i.e.: I am carrying 27 tons of platinum) and have all my friends take whatever mining missions they can that offer big bucks for platinum, then we meet someplace and I vent a load of bars.

Dommarraa said:
Edit : Thats a good start. 1st Jump and my System Map gets stuck half open during the jump charge. I lose all control of the ship, and crash into the star. 1% Hull Damage
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Stupid star for being there!
 
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piugattuk

piugattuk
I've done this, it's the same % that you get no matter where you are, and no matter how far you fly out as I was more then a 1,000 lys and dropped into a ring at the last planet in the system and still an NPC appears, sometimes its a mining t7 or a pirate(s), I don't think it's worth it but if your still interested I got a place 10 jumps out from civilization with pristine metallic I can send you, just got to look up my notes.
 
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certhas

certhas
how much cargo space does 1 limpet require?
still 1klie out before im back in colonized space but today... \o/
 

dannywhac

dannywhac
certhas said:
how much cargo space does 1 limpet require?
still 1klie out before im back in colonized space but today... \o/
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1 collector drone = 1T cargo space. Works out fine as due to the percentages of raw materials you'll be picking up in general I was getting the equivalent of 1 drone to about 1 full ton of cargo before the drone expires.

Just remember when using them to not target the raw materials - if you do, the drone will expire when it returns the mats to you. If you don't target the mats the drones will collect until their lifespan expires.
 
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Duckfather

Duckfather
This is the first time I've seen this thread, and I have to admit, I'm intrigued by this! I'm very tempted to kit my Anaconda up for mining and take her out there :)
 

Agony_Aunt

Agony_Aunt
Gorrister said:
Checked today.

Planets with 100% metal composition are just called "metal rich planet".
There are no others.
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There are two types of metal planets. High metal planets, which are common as dirt, and metallic planets. Not sure if high-metal can be 100% metal but if you have seen then maybe so, but there are definitely ones that are called metallic and are always 100% metal and are worth a lot more.

Useless for mining though since we don't have planetary landings yet, but one with rings might be worthwhile.
 
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