If I had a hammer. . .

[Mole HD]

That sounds truly amazing. *Mining conda relocation intensifies*
I also really want to go ice mining at least once any beautiful places to do that at?

If you try Algol out... the market for the mined stuff is at Ross 332 which is a 3.2ly jump away.

One of my local haunts, Hip 20187, has 2 gas giants, one brown and one blue, orbiting eachother at around 2kls from the sun, both with pristine metallic inner rings and landfall moons. AB1, which is the brown one has a high Palladium/Gold content, AB2, the blue one, has a fair bit of Painite and Platinum...and a small, grey gas giant with a single icy ring at the end on it's own which is around 4.5kls from the sun...so not too far in SC. It has a fair smattering of low temperature diamonds in the ice ring too.

Hip 20187 is outside the bubble with no habitation but is within 1 or 2 jumps of the many refinery systems down where I live..plus all the systems down there have 15% discount on ships and modules with more than decent outfitting at most

 

[Divine Cerinian]

Thanks Tom.....but believe me, Brother... after mining for a year I've found many, many hundreds if not thousands. I've turned a bit picky nowadays in that I only mine in the pretty ones
I prefer normally to find my own mining spots as opposed to relying on 3rd party web tools... nothing more to that except that it's mine and no one else goes there.
All I need is an ADS and a detailed surface scanner and just look for ringed planets or gas giants. Added bonus is that I can add ice rings to the list of nice places to mine nowadays. A beautiful experience all on it's own and worth doing at least once.

I have a few favourites that I return to regularly where the mining is above average for density and output, they're reasonably close to where I made my home at the edge of the bubble so not too far away.

A nice one inside the bubble for you to add is Algol. It has a beautiful huge blue-white star... head to Algol a4, a nice grey-white, high content metallic planet with a single, pristine metallic ring which is unusual in it's rarity.
The rings are tilted so they don't ever have a shadow meaning you don't have to keep jumping around the rings when it gets dark.
Since Horizons dropped I've driven around on the surface of that white planet too, to mine some rocks in a buggy... a dream I had when sitting in the rings watching the planet. I spent the better part of 6 months mining on the rings around that planet, I earned a lot of cash and upgraded from an Asp to a Python just on the proceeds of Algol a4..

Doing the deep space mining instructor bit with the Lidpar pilot training academy, I took quite a few folks round there to sharpen their teeth on mining away from the common res sites.. showed them that there's more to mining than fighting off 42 pirates for 2 tons of painite.

A few of us decided that Algol a4 was to be our first planetary landing site on Horizons release as a point of nostalgia... quite a few lawndarted and broke their ships so bad... a couple of rebuys... since we discovered right about then that Algol a4 is 2.9g

Location noted, I'm gonna need to get back into mining for the armor engineer here soon if I can ever get todd above rank three. +1 mate.

 

[ahiredgun]

One of my local haunts, Hip 20187, has 2 gas giants, one brown and one blue, orbiting eachother at around 2kls from the sun, both with pristine metallic inner rings...and a small, grey gas giant with an icy ring at the end on it's own which is around 4.5kls from the sun...so not too far in SC. It has a fair smattering of low temperature diamonds in the ice ring too.

Hip 20187 is outside the bubble with no habitation but is within 1 or 2 jumps of the many refinery systems down where I live..plus all the systems down there have 15% discount on ships and modules with more than decent outfitting at most

...15% discount means lyr. ....my home port is in lyr space. ...hmmm when I get back I will see how far it is.

 

[Mole HD]

...15% discount means lyr. ....my home port is in lyr space. ...hmmm when I get back I will see how far it is.

I'm based in Hip 20019, Selye orbital... been my home port for nearly a year. Good outfitting there

 

[Mr T]

...15% discount means lyr. ....my home port is in lyr space. ...hmmm when I get back I will see how far it is.

It sure is. When I was pledged to LYR I used to mine at Algol. Since then I found out the Imperial princess had stronger shields on offer so I defected to her and moved out of the neighborhood.

If you're actually interested in making some money from mining, I would outfit the smaller 6 bin refinery. I would vent the lower value minerals like Indite, Bertrandite, and Gallite. Beware that if you dump them after they've been refined, the collectors will pick them and put them back in your hold. Be sure to check the missions board before you sell your commodities.

 

[ahiredgun]

I'm based in Hip 20019, Selye orbital... been my home port for nearly a year. Good outfitting there

Based out of hip 6796 ibold port(decent outfitting great res zones and...color changing gas giants.
Been mining in some gcrv place not to far away. Great pristine rings. ..boring bland planets also they spin way too fast resulting in 2 hour long" days"
Kinda new to mining but I got the basics down and the ship outfitted perfectly. Made 27 mil so far mining 304t at a time.