There's a nice triple hotspot at WREGOE DJ-X C28-19 Planet 6
Tritium Mining
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Yes, I know all that, but rather than search the galaxy randomly, I was hoping someone would tell me a specific planet/ring where I can find tritium along with something that's worth mining. I'm not looking to make a lot of money, but I do want to do it efficiently. Last time I tried, I got about 6T in 30 minutes, which nowhere near matches the 200T per hour that some have mentioned and found nothing elese useful in the rocks. I don't want to mine cores - just laser mining, which is what my Cutter is set up. I have a carrier, so I can jump to anywhere around the bubble. I don't want to buy Tritium. I want to mine it.
Thanks. Is there anything else worthwhile in the rocks along with the tritium or is it just water and methane claptrap?
You could even try Buzhang Ku 6 'b' ring, not only Tritium but LTD (& VO if you felt like a change & blow something up) among other minerals. There is also a nice Haz Res for sport too.
... which for me contradicts your opening statement:
6t of tritium in 30 minutes in a tritium hotspots reads to me as if you are missing something very basic, as in:
- wrong place in the hotspot (center has best yields now, fall off is much steeper)
- not mining tritium asteroids, as you are expecting % you are used to from non icey rings
- a massively weird combination of lasers and collectors.
- trying to use the pulse wave scanner to identify rocks for laser mining
... or something.
or
- an instance where hotspot wasn't hotspot (so buggy)
it takes me a bit longer to fill my 192t mining t7 (! can't compete with a cutter at all), around 75-90 minutes, but - no offense - 6t in 30 minutes reads to me as if you are either missing some basic, or you had an instance where hotspot wasn't hotspot (so buggy), or something.
6t in 30 minutes is not down to loacation, you should be able to do better at any random tritium hotspot (and probably even outside of one).
Col 285 Sector CI-G b12-4 AB 4 B Ring has a nice double tritium plus brommelite, in case you want to rule out the location thingy and not use any of the other locations shared here.
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WREGOE DJ-X C28-19 Planet 6 has a triple hotspot, is 370 Lyrs from the bubble and is awash with carriers.
I stopped there on the way to hawkings gap and got 90 odd tonnes in an hour... since being in hawkings gap i have found three double trit hotspots and the hour accumulation has been better than the triple ..
I stopped there on the way to hawkings gap and got 90 odd tonnes in an hour... since being in hawkings gap i have found three double trit hotspots and the hour accumulation has been better than the triple ..
There are som LTD's and Bromellite but not much else (I just do laser mining). But if you do core mining I guess you could find void opals as well.
I was right in the middle of a single tritium hotspot. Maybe 1 in 6 rocks had tritium, but very low yeield - like 2%. I think the best was 10%.
I know how to mine. I'm no.3 in the Inara charts for mining and I have done much research and written guides on how to mine the fastest. My cutter has 4 lasers and 12 limpets. I don't understand why people keep mentioning cores. My ship is optimised for laser mining, which should be the quickest way to mine tritium.I don't need any money as I have already made 300billion from mining. I just want to mine tritium wth my lasers. All I need to know is where to go, where I can get lots of it along with something worthwhile, like brommelite, LTDs (not in cores).
Thanks for the suggestion of Col 285 Sector CI-G b12-4 AB 4 B Ring. I'll check it out.
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The answer, to me, is quite simple.....though the OP may not like it.
Unless you are out in the black & desperate to fill up your quickly emptying Carrier, then Mining Tritium REALLY isn't worthwhile doing.
If you're in/near the bubble then Mine a Metallic Ring Platinum hotspot for Platinum or Osmium & you can then sell that for 250k-290k/Ton.
Then buy your Tritium for 50k/Ton from the profits.
I don't recall the OP telling us why he/she is wanting Tritium.......so a lot of the answers seem to reflect this 'second guessing' what the OP wants as an answer.
Unless you are out in the black & desperate to fill up your quickly emptying Carrier, then Mining Tritium REALLY isn't worthwhile doing.
If you're in/near the bubble then Mine a Metallic Ring Platinum hotspot for Platinum or Osmium & you can then sell that for 250k-290k/Ton.
Then buy your Tritium for 50k/Ton from the profits.
I don't recall the OP telling us why he/she is wanting Tritium.......so a lot of the answers seem to reflect this 'second guessing' what the OP wants as an answer.
I prefer large delivery missions...
What type of system you find those? I have not been lucky enough recently
100t per hour is more usual for laser mining, a very good run may get up to 150t but this is vary rare.
Icy rings were nerfed and now the best percentage available is around 36%, for best yields always use an A rated Prospector limpet controller. I use 2 or 3 lasers with 11 collector limpets and laser any rock over 5%.
Locations, I cannot give you any around the bubble but any Icy ring will do as long as it is rated Pristine, if the area you are mining seems poor either log out and then log back in or move to another location within the hotspot. There is not much difference when laser mining between single and double hotspots.
Hotspots, Tritium can be found anywhere within an Icy ring, Just Laser mining, poorest area's outside of hotspots 30 - 40t per hour on average, any non Tritium hotspot 60 - 90t per hour, Tritium Hotspot 80 - 120t per hour.
Other commodities, as you are working from a carrier this is easy, Fill your hold and store in carrier, laser minable LTD's can be occasionally found anywhere but LTD hotspots can give reasonable yields with just laser mining as well as Tritium.
Bromellite - probably the the most underrated mineral out there, can be sold in bulk into stations without being taxed, plenty of carriers willing to buy at even higher prices and worth even more on the mission boards in the right stations, 2 - 3 ton is worth as much as a single LTD and can be mined faster than almost anything worthwhile in an icy ring, It has got its own hotspots which will also yield Tritium and the occasional LTD.
Methanol Monohydrate Crystals (MMC's), and Lithium Hydroxide, not worth mining specifically for but worth collecting as you go, the reason for the higher prices being offered by other carriers is again the mission boards, made good credits especially with MMC's, some mission boards cannot get enough of them.
The core type hotspots will also give reasonable levels off Tritium and Bromellite, this is the reason why my laser count varies, I switch in and out laser/SCL/SSDM on my Ice mining T9, If I see a Core I mine it, but unless I am flying my Core miner I do not hunt for them.
Living alone and sometimes being called away from the PC suddenly is one of the reasons I mine outside of the range of NPC's, it allows me to stop and restart without being bothered which means that I do not bother with weapons.
The 200t per hour mining is not laser but SSD mining.
They are much more scarce than they were (for Tritium certainly), I'll need to check my journal for the last one and come back here
Agreed!
Straight laser would be considerably less, even if blessed with more 30%+ rocks than normal.
i know, so my assumption still is, you were not missing a good location, but something else. with that info i'd say you had a faulty loaded instance. i recommend going to sc and back in such a weird case.
Mining tritium might not be worthwhile for most people, but it is for me because I WANT to mine it. I don't NEED to mine it. You're looking at my problem from your frame of reference, not mine. It was a simple request - Where can I get lots of tritium with something else? - but everybody is trying to change it into something they want to do. I keep saying that I don't need money. I already have 300 billion that I can't spend. If I could get 200T of tritium per hour plus 100T of something else, I'd be happy. Bear in mind that my Cutter can strip a rock and hoover up the fragments in seconds with 4 lasers and 12 limpets.
To put your curiosity at ease. I'm third in the Inara rankings for mining. I'd like to keep my position, so I have to mine some more. I don't care what I mine, and I need tritium for my carrier, so I had the brilliant idea that rather than fill my ship with painite and sell it for money that I don't need, I could find a nice spot where tritium is plentiful and use my ship to its full potential to kill two birds with one stone. Then I thought that if I could find something worthwhile with it, I can keep that as well rather than filling my hold with methane claptrap and throwing it all away, which would make me feel like I'm cheating. Everything I have in the game is by hard work and being ethical. I don't use scripts just so that I can say that my ship has gone the fiurthest in the game or I've done the most trading, like some of the other people in the rankings obviously do.
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Thanks for the link , did not even know that such listings existed.
Oh dear, looks like I am in 6th place
And that right there, is the sign of a completely sensible game economy!Bizarre as this might sound, you could still use the "mine something else and sell it to buy Tritium" method to satisfy your altruistic tendencies.
Simply buy a heap of Tritium, flog it for a loss and then go mine something expensive to cover your expenses.
@OP, I really am not trying to be difficult, I mean it. You're absolutely entitled to do whatever you want in the game or these forums, and neither I nor anyone else can say otherwise. That's fine and as it should be.
What I'm having a hard time understanding is the dichotomy between statements like "I'm an expert miner! I'm ranked #3 on Inara!" and "Please explain this trivial mining concept to me!". And then backing that up by arguing with nearly everybody who gives you an answer you don't like. So you're a pro who asks for novice advice then belittles the people who provide it. Say huh? If you know better than everyone else -- who are pretty much all telling you the same thing -- then why are asking at all?
1. Mine Tritium in ANY icy ring hotspot. If that's not good enough, go to any of the dozen systems pointed out by name in this thread.
2. Or mine ANYTHING else you want (to maintain your Inara ranking) and sell it to purchase Tritium (which you evidently need).
Those are really specific answers. What else are you hoping for? If it's just lively debate, that's fine -- say that! We all like a spirited but respectful disagreement sometimes, especially when we're nameless and faceless at our computers thousands of miles apart!
Seems to me that someone who is 3rd in the Inara mining ranks, has triple triple elite status and has played for many years wouldn't need to ask for advice on where to find tritium...but hey whatever.
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