Question about mining

[lysan]

So getting back in the black and mining my own business, however things is not as i recall them?
The pulse wave will tell me if the there are asteroids with a high yield, however not what it is, and for that I need a prospect limpet, so far so good.

Observations: The pulse wave is only for deep core mining, not laser mining as there are many asteroids that doesn't indicate anything that will give a high yield of whatever.
Can you adjust the pulse wave scanner to a specific material? How do you laser mine and find the right asteroids to mine or is it just trying and see what they give?

 

[PilotB]

You basically just load up with limpets find a hotspot and prospect everything while trying to fly in roughly a single direction to avoid looping back to mined rocks.

 

[[VR] Mad Mike]

you need to use prospectors to tell you the contents of an asteroid.

1st off scan the ring with your detailed surface scanner. do this until you find a planetary ring which is pristine and has a hotspot in the material you want (metallic ring for platinum which is one of the popular ones)

once you have the ring you want and you have scanned the ring and located a hotspot fly down the the centre of the hotspot. then i personally target the planet the ring is orbitting so i have a frame of reference.... then fire off a prospector. i personally mine anything which has 20% or greater of platinum, palladium, gold, silver, osmium samarium or panite and set my mining refinery to discard anything else.

once depleated i then move on. i think i have around 12 active collector limpets running along with 3 class 2 medium lasers with my T10

i also have a subsurface mining tool and an abraision blaster for when i happen to spot those.

i dont personally bother mining cores as that would need a different build and a more agile ship.

 

[lysan]

Ok great I'm on the right track then.

 

[aRJay]

So getting back in the black and mining my own business, however things is not as i recall them?
The pulse wave will tell me if the there are asteroids with a high yield, however not what it is, and for that I need a prospect limpet, so far so good.

Observations: The pulse wave is only for deep core mining, not laser mining as there are many asteroids that doesn't indicate anything that will give a high yield of whatever.
Can you adjust the pulse wave scanner to a specific material?

No.

How do you laser mine and find the right asteroids to mine or is it just trying and see what they give?

If you are short of limpets you can zap the rock and see what fragments you get but most use a prospector limpet to see what is there and, if they use the A rated one, boost yields from the rock.

My technique for laser mining is to pick a hot spot as described in a previous post but then drop in at the edge using the hot spot itself as the target lock to ensure I don’t end up flying in circles.

 

[ꝁestrel]

The pulse wave is only for deep core mining

It's not only for core mining. Not all the asteroids it highlights have cores. Some will have surface and sub-surface deposits.

Many laser mining ships don't need to equip every hardpoint with a mining laser. You can use those unused hardpoints for an abrasian blaster and sub-surface displacement missile launcher. That way even if you're laser mining you can pick up some juicy surface/sub-surface deposits along the way.

 

[SlickPBW]

True. Although it’s common practice in normal discussions to lump all the other tools except mining lasers into the “core mining” category because they all came out together when core mining was added to the game.