mining

[ozrix84]

No, look here

You will have lower yield than you would otherwise have in a pristine belt. Don't know by what margin tho. HIP 19934 has pristine rings, and the nearest high tech station with high demand for your ore is Diaguandri (60 odd lyrs)

 

[Zenith]

Is this counting in mining missions as well in your experience? Moving between 3-4 high tech systems made my income increase with 1.5 million credits from missions alone...

That is purely from mining and selling the minerals/metals at a reasonable price above galactic average. I only found out about the missions at high tech worlds this evening. I stopped off at Lembava and noticed a mission for 2 Platinum for 170k. Then another one for 3 Platinum for 225k, then a Palladium one, then an Osmium one...

 

[Smiffoo]

No, look here

http://stavime.org/images/common.jpg

You will have lower yield than you would otherwise have in a pristine belt. Don't know by what margin tho. HIP 19934 has pristine rings, and the nearest high tech station with high demand for your ore is Diaguandri (60 odd lyrs)

You Sir are a Legend, looks like my new home will be Diaguandri, if i can rep you again today i will, without gamers like you newbies like me would take forever to know

 

[Dave1029]

HIP 16607. You're welcome.

 

[jacozilla]

Sounds like you actually mined from the rocky ring instead of the metallic ring

http://stavime.org/images/mining1.jpg


http://stavime.org/images/mining2.jpg

well i was definitely not in rocky, going by the pic - thanks for that, really helps to know what they look like - but for sure what i was mining looked exactly loke the rich dark rust color on the left of pic - so metallic - not the light sandy look of the rocky.

so i must have got a bad metallic instance, i wasnt finding any of the higher grade like palladium, just tons of lepidolite, gakkite, some silver, a few gold, and just a tiny bit of osmium.

next tine i'll know to just leave and try another spot immediately instead of spend so much time in a bad spot

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Depending on where you're mining, not all of the ring system will be metallic. If you look at the system information, it should give you some information as to whether there are multiple rings and if the good bits are closer to the planet or further away, and then it's a bit of trial and error. But I can tell you personally from mining several pristine metallic rings this past week (and like you, not dropping into the RES but away from traffic), if you're in the right spot you should be seeing indite, gallite, bertrandite, silver, gold, palladium, painite, platinum and/or osmium. Anything else and you should try to find a different spot.

Thanks, will definitely move on quick next time if i dont see traces of the good stuff right away

 

[Smiffoo]

HIP 16607. You're welcome.

Wow not as high tech for outfitting, but it's closer than the other one.

 

[Firestarter]

Grand total for all that effort was less than 300k - and only because got just enough osmium to turn in for 200k mission.
it must be more than just dropping in at pristine metallic.

When looking at the ring information on the system map note that the first ring listed is the one closest to the planet.

When I drop onto a ring I try to aim for a bright white band within the pristine metallic ring. The rocks seem to more densely packed. Where I mine the RES is in the rocky band so that's no good.

 

[Zenith]

When I drop onto a ring I try to aim for a bright white band within the pristine metallic ring. The rocks seem to more densely packed. Where I mine the RES is in the rocky band so that's no good.

This is exactly what I do as well. Aim for one of the thicker, brighter bands because the rocks seem slightly more packed
And be sure to turn your headlights on while strip-mining.