Mining Bromelite near Alioth

[SASR] Ryan

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hello!

first poster here so try to take it easy even though my hull reinforcements are maxed for the salt about to come.

I was wondering if anyone would be able to help with an updated list of system close to Alioth that I am able to mine Bromelite from.
I have searched repeatedly for days now and only able to find information from over a year ago.

Regards & thanks for your input!
Ryan.
 

Vardaugas

Vardaugas
IIRC the closest system is a white dwarf with no stations. Ah, yes, found it with kpmop's link: LHS 2522.

Still 5k ls out, but at least below 20ly away. Guess if you don't want the supercruise, next closes with sub-1kls is Viruachi at almost 50ly distance.

Good luck, miner!
 

bazza926

bazza926
Literally just finished this yesterday. LHS 2522 planet 6 2nd ring. Yes its 5000ls out but only takes a few minutes to get there. Some rocks have about 6% but others upto 30%.
Ran out of limpets with just 1t left required. I tried to wing it but without prospectors it was too much effort and had to go and restock. On the plus side found myself 5 low temperature diamonds on the final trip though.
 

Archvillain

Archvillain
Factabulous said:
make sure you get the alioth permit before doing the mining.... classic gotcha ;)
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heh, I also did some engineer mining yesterday: mined myself 50T bromelite to unlock one engineer, and while I was at it I dropped into some metallic rings and mined 10T of ossmium to unlock another.

I went to hand them in... I had the alioth permit, dropped off the bromelite, no problems there. Then I went to head to the other engineer... and realized they're in Colonia. Doh!

I sold the ossmium instead.

Always read the fine print :D
 
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Limoncello Lizard

Limoncello Lizard
A bit of advice for mining bromellite for the engineer unlock.


  1. Always use prospector limpets. They tell you what minerals and their percentages in each roid. But, even more importantly, they increase the number of fragments you get per roid.
  2. For ice mining, always fill your hold completely with limpets (in metallic rings you only need 50% limpets, but yields in pristine ice rings are as pitiful as depleted metallic rings).
  3. Don't log off within a ring, unless you are prepared to run away from, give cargo to, or fight pirates.
  4. Don't ever take cargo into a ring (except limpets), unless you are prepared to run away from, give cargo to, or fight pirates.
 

Vardaugas

Vardaugas
Limoncello Lizard said:
A bit of advice for mining bromellite for the engineer unlock.


  1. Always use prospector limpets. They tell you what minerals and their percentages in each roid. But, even more importantly, they increase the number of fragments you get per roid.
  2. For ice mining, always fill your hold completely with limpets (in metallic rings you only need 50% limpets, but yields in pristine ice rings are as pitiful as depleted metallic rings).
  3. Don't log off within a ring, unless you are prepared to run away from, give cargo to, or fight pirates.
  4. Don't ever take cargo into a ring (except limpets), unless you are prepared to run away from, give cargo to, or fight pirates.
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To add to that: Don't put a prospector on every asteroid, instead break off a fragment and hide everything that isn't Bromelite or Diamond. Saves you prospectors and time. The ignore list is a fantastic addition for ice mining.
 

Florenus

Florenus
bazza926 said:
Ran out of limpets with just 1t left required. I tried to wing it but without prospectors it was too much effort and had to go and restock.
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It's good to remember that you can always synthesize some limpets on board. I'm not sure right now what materials this requires (iron plus something), but those are the ones that drop out of asteroids anyway, so if you do mining, you'll have them.
 

Hacker#451563

Hacker#451563
Florenus said:
It's good to remember that you can always synthesize some limpets on board. I'm not sure right now what materials this requires (iron plus something), but those are the ones that drop out of asteroids anyway, so if you do mining, you'll have them.
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10 Units of Iron & 10 Units of Nickel gets you 4 Limpets.
 

Limoncello Lizard

Limoncello Lizard
Vardaugas said:
To add to that: Don't put a prospector on every asteroid, instead break off a fragment and hide everything that isn't Bromelite or Diamond. Saves you prospectors and time. The ignore list is a fantastic addition for ice mining.
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This is good advice for a small ship. But for a Python or larger, let the prospectors do the flying. Limpets are cheap enough.

Hacker#451563 said:
10 Units of Iron & 10 Units of Nickel gets you 4 Limpets.
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FD were originally going to make it 10 iron and 10 tin for 4 limpets. Gives you a clue just how much thought they put into it.
 
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