Engineers Rhenium, where???

[Kort]

Any ideas my fellow Commanders. I know I can trade for it but if I wanted to just give it a try, where would I go?

 

[Bob Lighthouse]

Any ideas my fellow Commanders. I know I can trade for it but if I wanted to just give it a try, where would I go?

That doesn't make sense.
It's a G1 mat.

 

[Kort]

I stand corrected.

 

[Bob Lighthouse]

I stand corrected.

Lots of people have asked, ftr.
No harm in that.
I have no idea simply because the down-trade is so easy.
It's not on eddb yet either.

 

[Bob Lighthouse]

Find a body high in Polonium and Mercury instead.

 

[Para Handy]

Any ideas my fellow Commanders. I know I can trade for it but if I wanted to just give it a try, where would I go?

Mining asteroids is the only source of Rhenium (apart from trading of course) - it was one of the added ones as well as Lead and Boron that could only be obtained by mining.

 

[metatheurgist]

Yep, only obtained from mining. The last time I tried I found more ice diamonds than Rhenium.

 

[Limoncello Lizard]

Though the game says that rhenium and lead are "very common" and groups them as Class-1 materials, they aren't common at all. You will find rhenium, lead and boron in any metallic or metal-rich ring, in roughly 1% amounts. So for every 100 materials fragments you mine, you'll average 1 each of these.

I mine enough that I have rhenium and lead to throw away, but I doubt that many other players could say that.

But since rhenium and lead are class-1 mats, it's probably far easier to trade a few class-4 mats.

 

[space voyager]

It is found right next to lead deposits.