Newcomer / Intro Mining around Ross 332

KRU BARANKI

KRU BARANKI
I wonder if anyone know any system close to Ross 332 which can have Pristine reserves for the Icy Ring with Low Temp Diamonds?
So far I found this Ross 332 perfect for mining Serendibite in very close Algol system, last time in Lawrence Ring I sold 12 units for 6,7 milion cr - first huge income in Elite :D.
But Low Temp Diamonds sells there for 1 mil/pc thus would be even better investment.

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KRU BARANKI

KRU BARANKI
Thx for answer CMDR, however the site seems to give unreliable data.
I picked several pieces of Serendibite, opened this website, checked nearest station (~50LY distance) showing the price ~900k cr/pc, jumped there, but after arrival the price was a bit over 500k/pc. The same price that gives my regular trading station Lawrence Ring, 3 LY away from mining spot.
Maybe I did something wrong?
 

Para Handy

Para Handy
d8veh said:
Instead of being an aimless amateur, why don't you become a professional miner. This one tells you where to mine and where to sell. You should be able to become an elite billionaire by the end of today if you start now.
http://edtools.ddns.net/miner
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I think @KRU BARANKI was referring to that site from the immediately preceding post. I find that these materials have extremely volatile prices, I have only used it for Painite but whenever I get to the nearest "good" price, it is usually less than earlier reported. I got stuffed badly (780K down to 350K) the first time I used it so now am more careful.

Today I am going to try to work out the explody-mining for the first time since once in the beta so I shall be keeping a close eye on the prices. ;)
 

metatheurgist

metatheurgist
While I use the miner site to locate places to mine I always use inara to find places to sell. But I supplied the miner site as an answer to the OP, not for other purposes so I absolve myself of all responsibility for confusion. :p
 

KRU BARANKI

KRU BARANKI
d8veh said:
Instead of being an aimless amateur, why don't you become a professional miner.
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Hey, I already do the core mining (below screen from todays mining), but I don't like to be always guided by hand with ready solutions that are presented in details on websites for almost anything :sneaky:. Earning credits must be an adventure. So if I ask someone if they saw a better price somewhere, I wish they rather give a friendly tip like "hey friend, I just saw this product with high price in system xxx, should not be far from your location" ;), than a website address.

Btw. This website doesn't have Monazite, which I got plenty today...

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Para Handy

Para Handy
KRU BARANKI said:
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Btw. This website doesn't have Monazite, which I got plenty today...
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Just a FYI in case you were not aware - you can set stuff to "ignore" in the "contacts" panel - so in your image you have Bauxite clogging your cargo - by selecting a fragment in the contacts panel you can select to "Ignore" a material in that fragment. So your refinery never gets an ignored material put in its hopper - don't ask me how the limpet is able to only feed in the wanted material form a fragment but not deliver the ignored constituent of that fragment. o_O
 

Factabulous

Factabulous
KRU BARANKI said:
Hey, I already do the core mining (below screen from todays mining), but I don't like to be always guided by hand with ready solutions that are presented in details on websites for almost anything :sneaky:. Earning credits must be an adventure. So if I ask someone if they saw a better price somewhere, I wish they rather give a friendly tip like "hey friend, I just saw this product with high price in system xxx, should not be far from your location" ;), than a website address.
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Maybe a better way to do that would be to use the system chat - now that works across modes you can ask people local to you for info. Though even there it's likely any answer will be after they type into eddb etc ;)
 

Para Handy

Para Handy
Para Handy said:
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Today I am going to try to work out the explody-mining for the first time since once in the beta ..........
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Well that was a waste of a Sunday afternoon. What a palaver, scan, scan, scan (lose count), prospector, nope so scan, scan, scan, etc ....... I made a measly 17MCr in my Krait Phantom in a couple of hours. I could have cleared 250MCr from Painite double hotspot laser-mining in that time in my minaconda. You can have explody-mining, what a bore.
 

Factabulous

Factabulous
Para Handy said:
Well that was a waste of a Sunday afternoon. What a palaver, scan, scan, scan (lose count), prospector, nope so scan, scan, scan, etc ....... I made a measly 17MCr in my Krait Phantom in a couple of hours. I could have cleared 250MCr from Painite double hotspot laser-mining in that time in my minaconda. You can have explody-mining, what a bore.
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Heh - I had the opposite issue with a poor yield from double-painite yesterday. Today I will aim straight for the centre of the overlap - yesterday I aimed for the 'edge' where they met, but of course 'space is big' so I will try again. Probably :)
 

Ashnak

Ashnak
Just came back from a couple of hours (was it really that long?) of explody-mining. Had set up a DBX for that task, after getting stuck in the cracked 'roids in my Krait Mk.II a couple of times too often. 40 tons of VO's, something like >60 MCr. Yes, you can see which asteroids are explodeable before you drone them - but even in what was supposed to be a double VO hotspot, only 3 out of 6 were VOs.
Had to leave half of the third rock behind - 2 rocks almost filled my hold, the third the refinery.
 

Ashnak

Ashnak
Oh, and as for the scan, scan, scan: I set the scanner to my secondary fire button, which has as secondary control the otherwise useless slider at the base of my stick. Slider up, scanner works continously, slider down, scanner stops.
Just remember to push the slider down before you switch firegroups...
 

KRU BARANKI

KRU BARANKI
Following the above advice I also went to Painite mining :). But a question, if an asteroid has both Painite minerals and Core (like on screenshot), is it wise to first deplete asteroid to zero with mining lasers, collest nodes and then set charges and explode it? Or maybe drain untill few percent of minerals before it's depleted and then set charges to explode (like I do)? Any difference between those two? Can I set charges to mine core if asteroid is fully depleted?

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Regarding "ignore" for some of the useless cheap minerals, I already noticed that Painite likes to be together with cheap ores in a same node, so when cheap one is on ignore list, the limpet forgets about such node even if Painite is also inside. Thus I prefer to gather all and then make a selection...
 

Para Handy

Para Handy
KRU BARANKI said:
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Regarding "ignore" for some of the useless cheap minerals, I already noticed that Painite likes to be together with cheap ores in a same node, so when cheap one is on ignore list, the limpet forgets about such node even if Painite is also inside. Thus I prefer to gather all and then make a selection...
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The limpets still collect those "combination" fragments - it is just that the "ignored" material is not fed into your refinery, only the wanted stuff - Painite in this case.
 

aRJay

aRJay
KRU BARANKI said:
Following the above advice I also went to Painite mining :). But a question, if an asteroid has both Painite minerals and Core (like on screenshot), is it wise to first deplete asteroid to zero with mining lasers, collest nodes and then set charges and explode it? Or maybe drain untill few percent of minerals before it's depleted and then set charges to explode (like I do)? Any difference between those two? Can I set charges to mine core if asteroid is fully depleted?

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Yes you can laser mine the thing to depleted then use the abrasion blaster on the surface features before using the drill missiles on the subsurface features and only after that blow it to bits and harvest the core.
If you take the core first you lose all the other stuff, taking the core last lets you get everything, but you will acquire lower value items which is of course a no no if grinding for credits.
 

leeG

leeG
Para Handy said:
Well that was a waste of a Sunday afternoon. What a palaver, scan, scan, scan (lose count), prospector, nope so scan, scan, scan, etc ....... I made a measly 17MCr in my Krait Phantom in a couple of hours. I could have cleared 250MCr from Painite double hotspot laser-mining in that time in my minaconda. You can have explody-mining, what a bore.
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Explody-mining takes a couple of runs to sort out. Scanner color return and shape of the valuable asteroids have to be learned. I fly with the scan trigger held down continuously pinging, like a destroyer looking for submarines. Properly set charges yield 10 to 16 tons of void opals from each asteroid. I have 5 mining ships, three with 64 tons of cargo, one with 128 tons of cargo, and one with 192 tons. 64 tons of void opals is 100+ MCr. I select my ship based on how much time I have to play and how far I have to go for the best price. Two hours a 64 ton, three hours the 128 ton and four hours the 192. Each ship more than pays for itself each void opal run.

Explody Void opal mining is working for me as I have a nearby system with several void opal hotspots, but no close system with double Painite hotspots.
 
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Para Handy

Para Handy
leeG said:
Explody-mining takes a couple of runs to sort out. Scanner color return and shape of the valuable asteroids have to be learned. I fly with the scan trigger held down continuously pinging, like a destroyer looking for submarines. Properly set charges yield 10 to 16 tons of void opals from each asteroid. I have 5 mining ships, three with 64 tons of cargo, one with 128 tons of cargo, and one with 192 tons. 64 tons of void opals is 100+ MCr. I select my ship based on how much time I have to play and how far I have to go for the best price. Two hours a 64 ton, three hours the 128 ton and four hours the 192. Each ship more than pays for itself each void opal run.

Explody Void opal mining is working for me as I have a nearby system with several void opal hotspots, but no close system with double Painite hotspots.
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I might give V O core mining a try at some point then - I was doing Low Temp Diamonds and they really lived up to their initialism - "Ltd" - in being very limited indeed. ;)
 
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