Is there a trick to mining pristine rings?

Warmaster Will

Warmaster Will
So I mess around mining and go to a pristine metal rich ring but everything I was mining was crapola like colbolt and such..I hit about 30 rocks and nothing even close to good.
I notice when dropping down onto a ring there are different colored bands,does that make a difference or maybe closeness to the planet. I tried the mineral rich ring too similar result..crapola
 
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TheSisko

TheSisko
Warmaster Will said:
So I mess around mining and go to a pristine metal rich ring but everything I was mining was crapola like colbolt and such..I hit about 30 rocks and nothing even close to good.
I notice when dropping down onto a ring there are different colored bands,does that make a difference or maybe closeness to the planet. I tried the mineral rich ring too similar result..crapola
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The lighter-coloured inner rings are the pristine ones (if you look at the system map it will give you more info regarding the rings). Dive into one of them and emerge with profit.
 

CMDR Heisenberg B. Damned

CMDR Heisenberg B. Damned
The A ring is the inner ring then B and so on outwards from the planet. Pristine Metallic ones have always been the inner ring anywhere I've mined but not 100% sure if that's the case everywhere. Stick to rocks with 20% or more of what you're after.
 

tachyondecay

tachyondecay
Another tip: target the planet, and then mine towards it (i.e., as you're working through the field, work your way inwards with the planet roughly in the centre of your field of view). It’s very easy to get turned around in rings, and by using the planet as your point of reference, you can avoid doubling back and prospecting asteroids you've already rejected or mined!
 

CMDR Ellegon

CMDR Ellegon
If you search the forum, Ben Ryder did a nice summary of known good mining spots a while ago.

For known systems with full map data, you can simply look at the ring information in the system map, you want Pristine Metallic (not metal-rich). For unknown systems, you need to scan the ring with a Detailed Surface Scanner for full information.
 

Warmaster Will

Warmaster Will
But also mr ellegon you must mine the inner ring....that was my problem if you go to the outter edge of the ring there is nothing but crapola
 
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Limoncello Lizard

Limoncello Lizard
You can always tell you are in the metallic part of a ring by what the roids are made of. Metallic rings always contain only: painite, platinum, paladium, gold, silver, osmium, bertrandite, gallite and indite. If you get anything other than what is in this list, you are not in the metallic part of the ring.
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Some planets only have one ring, occasionally they are metallic. There is only one system I know of where the outer ring is the metallic one - Tiraon system, planet 2.
 

CMDR Ellegon

CMDR Ellegon
Warmaster Will said:
But also mr ellegon you must mine the inner ring....that was my problem if you go to the outter edge of the ring there is nothing but crapola
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In that case the system information will show multiple rings (A, B, C etc if IIRC). I implied that you need to go to the right ring, but guess I could have made that clearer.
 

Julio Montega

Julio Montega
I read about using prospectors allowing the asteroid you mine spawn twice the fragments.
Have no data to confirm however, seems to be worth trying, in case you ditched the module before.
 

CMDR Ellegon

CMDR Ellegon
Julio Montega said:
I read about using prospectors allowing the asteroid you mine spawn twice the fragments.
Have no data to confirm however, seems to be worth trying, in case you ditched the module before.
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I can personally attest that with prospectors you get about four times the yield (30 to 40 fragments) that you get without them.
 
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