I have found two deliciously lovely mining places!!! They are full of rich metals every time I go there:
This is what mining there looks like:






Typically I am going out in a Python with 250t of hold space full of limpets. I have a controller that lets me have 2 collectors out, and 1 prospector. Last trip I came back with 34t of gold, 25t of palladium, 16t of platinum, 9t of painite, and "assorted other stuff" I use the prospector drones liberally while the collectors are pulling in chunks and with the power plant on my Python I can just mash down on the mining laser and mine an asteroid without having to pause. I have the collector controller that keeps 2 controllers running for 8 minutes or so, so I go through a lot more prospector launches than collectors.
I've been dropping into the A ring (that's the one that's usually metallic) at random spots including the back edge, very inner edge, and outer edge. It does not appear that the distribution of goodies has anything to do with where you are in the A ring. I've also sampled a variety of sizes of 'roids including small ones that look shiny, big ones that look dirty, fast-spinning ones and slow-spinning and immobile ones. That does not appear to make the least bit of difference. They all drop more or less the same stuff in the same zone.
- 20 Ophiuchi Planet 6 (A Ring)
- Jura Planet 7 (A Ring)
This is what mining there looks like:






Typically I am going out in a Python with 250t of hold space full of limpets. I have a controller that lets me have 2 collectors out, and 1 prospector. Last trip I came back with 34t of gold, 25t of palladium, 16t of platinum, 9t of painite, and "assorted other stuff" I use the prospector drones liberally while the collectors are pulling in chunks and with the power plant on my Python I can just mash down on the mining laser and mine an asteroid without having to pause. I have the collector controller that keeps 2 controllers running for 8 minutes or so, so I go through a lot more prospector launches than collectors.
I've been dropping into the A ring (that's the one that's usually metallic) at random spots including the back edge, very inner edge, and outer edge. It does not appear that the distribution of goodies has anything to do with where you are in the A ring. I've also sampled a variety of sizes of 'roids including small ones that look shiny, big ones that look dirty, fast-spinning ones and slow-spinning and immobile ones. That does not appear to make the least bit of difference. They all drop more or less the same stuff in the same zone.
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