Mining hotspots never have the related materials

[nelorourke]

Hi,

I am surface mining and have identified hotspots on rings using the surface scanner.

However, the rocks never contain the materials associated for the hotspots. Only low value materials such as Bauxite and Lepidolite.

Is it normal for it to be this difficult to find the hotspot materials, or am I doing something wrong?

I have also used the Pulse Wave scanner.

Wasting many hours on this, when I could be out in the sun!

 

[GroG79]

You indeed need to find core asteroids. There is only one type of core asteroid per ring type.
The 'surface' mining you refer to is what we call laser mining. it does not yield the core materials. You can indeed find the core asteroids using the PWA.

A hotspot does not guarantee you will only find given core mining materials. Other core mining materials will be present

how-to vid

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0tdKPAn5zQ

 

[metatheurgist]

Depends on what and where you're mining. Some stuff can only be laser mined and some can only be core mined depending on the ring type. If you just so happen to be trying the wrong type in the wrong hotspot then yes you will find nothing.

Elite: Dangerous - Minerals and Where to Find Them

docs.google.com

 

[Fixitman]

Every time I've entered a hotspot, it had what it was supposed to have. They always have an abundance of fairly useless stuff as well. If they didn't, there wouldn't be any challenge to it. Mining is boring enough with the challenges.

 

[SteveWW57]

Funny, but if I drop into a ring at a platinum hotspot, I will find platinum and other stuff, like osmium, gold, silver, palladium as well as other lower value stuff.

40 minutes relaxing mining in a Python and the hold is full.

Steve

 

[nelorourke]

Thanks all!

I think I'll focus on surface mining for now but will check out the Core mining video above.

@Fixitman, thanks for the table., it looks super useful! So for surface mining, I just need to scan the rings and pick a hotspot for the material within the specified ring type?

Neil

 

[Codger]

If you don’t mind Reddit, there’s an EliteMiners subreddit with a very good PSA that covers all types of mining and explains everything. It will answer all of your questions and then some.

Reddit - Dive into anything

www.reddit.com

 

[mearmortal]

I've seen this exact issue, very little of the actual material for the hotspot, however the closer I got to the centre, within 90km of it, I started to see the cores with the material like Rhodplumsite for instance.