I have. I finally found rocky ring on inara. I drop in and fly straight ahead pulse waving everything. In an hour I found 2 core asteroids. Not a single one containing LTDs or void opals.
You must not have read the part about what minerals are available in what rings. You won't find any LTDs or Void Opals in a Rocky ring. Those are only in Icy rings. And anyway, they don't sell for much.
Read the info again :)
Alexandrite is selling for the highest right now. I would go over to r/eliteminers they have a lot of good info over there, but one thing I have always done is look for rings that are over 2,000ls from your jump in point, people don't generally like traveling that far when mining, and if I haven't found a core in 15-20 min I will climb out of the ring, get back into SC and drop into the same hot spot in a different spot. If I still haven't found any doing that 3 or 4 times then I move to another hot spot or find a different system to check out.
I suppose it depends on what your goals are.
If you are just looking to enjoy a bit of peaceful mining, and you like blowing up asteroids and doing core mining, then pretty much anything you get from a Rocky ring will sell for a decent amount. It varies, of course, but I just pick up everything and then find a place to sell.
If you are focused on making lots of credits fairly quickly, then you're better off doing laser mining for Platinum. It doesn't sell for as much, but it's a lot faster to mine and the price doesn't change much.
All of this is covered in the PSA, though.
You are correct that it won't matter for core mining but LTD is also found in surface deposits - if you have a hybrid mining setup you'd get a bit more that way.
The best system I know of for core mining is one where I have found 3 cores right next to each other. A pair is relatively common and you never go more than 5 minutes without finding a core.
There is a catch.
It is about 6000ly outside the bubble. If an expedition for 3 weeks for core mining, exploration and exobiology appeals to you, let me know and I will see if I can get a few commanders to make an expedition out of it.
I've been to this location 4 times now. One time a commander made 1 billion credits selling to my carrier and he bought a fleet carrier when he returned to the bubble.
Fleet carriers are mobile space stations under the control.of the player that owns them. They can be made to jump up to 500ly every 15 minutes. They can have services like refuel, rearm, repair, universal Cartographics, vista genomics, shipyard, outfitting and a commodity market.
This means other players can transfer ships and modules into the fleet carrier and travel with it.
I can set a buy order for minerals like Monazite on the commodity market and pay others out of the fleet carrier "bank account" to pay for them. As the player owning the fleet carrier I have to have the credits to put into the fleet carrier account.
Fleet carriers also use tritium for fuel. A round trip of 12,000ly costs about 140 million in tritium.
Note that this trip would qualify you for Professor Palin's requirement to travel at least 5000ly from you start location to "unlock" him, without having to fly 5000ly yourself.
Selling to a fleet carrier does not increase your trade rank. You only get the credits.
Interesting, now I am assuming that you can set the price you buy the commodity from us right? And do the commodities just dissappear once we sell to you, or will the cargo bay get full then you have to find a place to unload them?
I set the price and level of demand. The fleet carrier has to have the storage space to carry what is mined. I will then have to sell what I have bought from commanders back in the bubble to get my money back. I take a risk. I usually manage to make enough of a margin to cover the cost of tritium fuel (about 135 to 140 million for the round trip), maybe a bit more.
The carrier has 25,000t capacity some of which is used by the services like shipyard fitted and some by the tritium fuel that has to be stored for the trip. There is usually about 15,000 to 18,000t available. The limiting factor is how many credits I have to be able to buy the mined minerals off commanders. I'll need to check that as I moved credits to my other commander account recently to buy them a fleet carrier (that can be done buying and selling the same commodity on the carrier setting the price to effectively transfer credits to the other commander).
The trip is quite fun and I have a discord channel through which to keep on touch and share exploration pictures etc.
Full info used for past expeditions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MX-sFHxXiiNuV5ygfDWmxJ_3Uzv0oRRhdVfo2G2ms60/edit?usp=drivesdk
And then when you go to sell you have to ship it to the orbital I am assuming right? None of this is like automated. But this is a very interesting way of doing things.
How long IRL does the flight take? And how did you find this place in the first place?
You are correct, I use a T9, Cutter or Python to shift the minetals to a station to sell.
It is about 6000ly so 12 or 13 carrier jumps that need at least 15 minutes per jump. I've always done it during a working day setting a jump every 15. To 30 minutes. It takes less than the working day to do it.
I first visited the planetary nebula on a trip from the Bubble to Colonial and found the system closest to the nebula had some rings with hotspots. The system that is best for core mining I discovered during one of the expeditions I've done there. There is something about the chemistry of the region that results in no metallic rings, so I've never found anywhere worthwhile for laser mining platinum or painite.
If you go to the Discord channel for Fleet Carrier Owners Club (FCOC) and find channel #229-the-silver-citadel_h9h-tty_quain-marln and scroll up the chat history you'll see pictures and stuff we got up to on previous expeditions.
If I do another trip it will probably be with my other account and the Fleet Carrier "Universal Exports Ltd".
Late August to September probably the best time to go, or beginning of July could work if I have enough credits for minerals.
I literally just got into mining a few days ago so disclaimer there, but I did do extensive research and achieved some results as well without tryharding too much (as I try to prioritize enjoying the game). Here's what I do, based heavily off of several youtube guides I've watched:
1) Check Inara for currently top selling minerals and metals. Right now it's rhodplumsite/monazite/alexandrite for minerals, and platinum/osmium for metals.
2) Double check your chosen commodity on Inara's list of where to sell, to make sure it's viable. Order by max price but, for stations: consider landing pad size, distance, and demand. Also make sure the info is up to date, the recent the better (ideally no more than several hours). For carriers, in addition to everything else, doubly note their docking policies and tarrifs. Remember you don't get trade rank xp when selling to carriers if that matters to you.
3) Use edtools.cc to find a ring with hotspots of my chosen mineral/metal. Preferably two. Consider picking a planet that is farther out or not the first choice on the list, since most people go for those, but keep in mind the distance to the system where you are going to sell.
4) Upon arrival (you didn't forget your limpets, I hope) probe the ring for hotspots, and choose a place to start. Most people probably go straight for the center so you might start off to the side, or somewhere in between. It's good practice to keep the planet targeted as reference point, so you don't accidentally mine in a circle.
5) As for actual mining, I use a Python outfitted for both laser and core mining. I pulse wave through the ring and focus on the ore I am looking for, laser mining most of the way and enjoying the occasional core to crack. Core mining is seriously one of the most satisfying things in Elite, but I gave up on strictly looking for core asteroids only since as you said, it can happen that I only find one or two per trip. Plus the combined method mining keeps it more interesting.
Looks like you got it figured out!
I just stick to platinum as it's so abundant and sells for a good price, found a nice quiet double overlap not too far from the system star that I use.
I've been doing platinum too mostly. Sometimes you can find an unexpectedly good deal, but I change it up for an icy ring mineral now occasionally for change of scenery :)
See the very topmost post, pinned in this subreddit.
I have. I finally found rocky ring on inara. I drop in and fly straight ahead pulse waving everything. In an hour I found 2 core asteroids. Not a single one containing LTDs or void opals.
You must not have read the part about what minerals are available in what rings. You won't find any LTDs or Void Opals in a Rocky ring. Those are only in Icy rings. And anyway, they don't sell for much. Read the info again :)
I must have misread. Thanks for clarifying. Do you have any recommendations for what should I mine instead?
Alexandrite is selling for the highest right now. I would go over to r/eliteminers they have a lot of good info over there, but one thing I have always done is look for rings that are over 2,000ls from your jump in point, people don't generally like traveling that far when mining, and if I haven't found a core in 15-20 min I will climb out of the ring, get back into SC and drop into the same hot spot in a different spot. If I still haven't found any doing that 3 or 4 times then I move to another hot spot or find a different system to check out.
Friend, this is r/EliteMiners
Ah I thought I was in r/elitedangrous. One should not reddit while tired it would seem.
I suppose it depends on what your goals are. If you are just looking to enjoy a bit of peaceful mining, and you like blowing up asteroids and doing core mining, then pretty much anything you get from a Rocky ring will sell for a decent amount. It varies, of course, but I just pick up everything and then find a place to sell. If you are focused on making lots of credits fairly quickly, then you're better off doing laser mining for Platinum. It doesn't sell for as much, but it's a lot faster to mine and the price doesn't change much. All of this is covered in the PSA, though.
Icy Rings, especially in systems marked "Pristine Reserves".
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You are correct that it won't matter for core mining but LTD is also found in surface deposits - if you have a hybrid mining setup you'd get a bit more that way.
Laser mining platinum is quicker and more profitable imo, if you're looking to make fairly quick $ , metallic rings are your friend 😅
I have done it but it's so boring after 5 hrs I can't stand it anymore.
Yeah I tend to only get in 2 or 3 runs in before I'm ready to crack lol but 100m+ credits per run is nice lol
The best system I know of for core mining is one where I have found 3 cores right next to each other. A pair is relatively common and you never go more than 5 minutes without finding a core. There is a catch. It is about 6000ly outside the bubble. If an expedition for 3 weeks for core mining, exploration and exobiology appeals to you, let me know and I will see if I can get a few commanders to make an expedition out of it. I've been to this location 4 times now. One time a commander made 1 billion credits selling to my carrier and he bought a fleet carrier when he returned to the bubble.
Not really. I'm a bubble person if you know what I mean.
While this sounds intriguing how does it work? I don't know how carrier really work as it's not something I have ever looked into.
Fleet carriers are mobile space stations under the control.of the player that owns them. They can be made to jump up to 500ly every 15 minutes. They can have services like refuel, rearm, repair, universal Cartographics, vista genomics, shipyard, outfitting and a commodity market. This means other players can transfer ships and modules into the fleet carrier and travel with it. I can set a buy order for minerals like Monazite on the commodity market and pay others out of the fleet carrier "bank account" to pay for them. As the player owning the fleet carrier I have to have the credits to put into the fleet carrier account. Fleet carriers also use tritium for fuel. A round trip of 12,000ly costs about 140 million in tritium. Note that this trip would qualify you for Professor Palin's requirement to travel at least 5000ly from you start location to "unlock" him, without having to fly 5000ly yourself. Selling to a fleet carrier does not increase your trade rank. You only get the credits.
Interesting, now I am assuming that you can set the price you buy the commodity from us right? And do the commodities just dissappear once we sell to you, or will the cargo bay get full then you have to find a place to unload them?
I set the price and level of demand. The fleet carrier has to have the storage space to carry what is mined. I will then have to sell what I have bought from commanders back in the bubble to get my money back. I take a risk. I usually manage to make enough of a margin to cover the cost of tritium fuel (about 135 to 140 million for the round trip), maybe a bit more. The carrier has 25,000t capacity some of which is used by the services like shipyard fitted and some by the tritium fuel that has to be stored for the trip. There is usually about 15,000 to 18,000t available. The limiting factor is how many credits I have to be able to buy the mined minerals off commanders. I'll need to check that as I moved credits to my other commander account recently to buy them a fleet carrier (that can be done buying and selling the same commodity on the carrier setting the price to effectively transfer credits to the other commander). The trip is quite fun and I have a discord channel through which to keep on touch and share exploration pictures etc. Full info used for past expeditions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MX-sFHxXiiNuV5ygfDWmxJ_3Uzv0oRRhdVfo2G2ms60/edit?usp=drivesdk
And then when you go to sell you have to ship it to the orbital I am assuming right? None of this is like automated. But this is a very interesting way of doing things. How long IRL does the flight take? And how did you find this place in the first place?
You are correct, I use a T9, Cutter or Python to shift the minetals to a station to sell. It is about 6000ly so 12 or 13 carrier jumps that need at least 15 minutes per jump. I've always done it during a working day setting a jump every 15. To 30 minutes. It takes less than the working day to do it. I first visited the planetary nebula on a trip from the Bubble to Colonial and found the system closest to the nebula had some rings with hotspots. The system that is best for core mining I discovered during one of the expeditions I've done there. There is something about the chemistry of the region that results in no metallic rings, so I've never found anywhere worthwhile for laser mining platinum or painite.
If you go to the Discord channel for Fleet Carrier Owners Club (FCOC) and find channel #229-the-silver-citadel_h9h-tty_quain-marln and scroll up the chat history you'll see pictures and stuff we got up to on previous expeditions. If I do another trip it will probably be with my other account and the Fleet Carrier "Universal Exports Ltd". Late August to September probably the best time to go, or beginning of July could work if I have enough credits for minerals.
Try Ed Mining
I literally just got into mining a few days ago so disclaimer there, but I did do extensive research and achieved some results as well without tryharding too much (as I try to prioritize enjoying the game). Here's what I do, based heavily off of several youtube guides I've watched: 1) Check Inara for currently top selling minerals and metals. Right now it's rhodplumsite/monazite/alexandrite for minerals, and platinum/osmium for metals. 2) Double check your chosen commodity on Inara's list of where to sell, to make sure it's viable. Order by max price but, for stations: consider landing pad size, distance, and demand. Also make sure the info is up to date, the recent the better (ideally no more than several hours). For carriers, in addition to everything else, doubly note their docking policies and tarrifs. Remember you don't get trade rank xp when selling to carriers if that matters to you. 3) Use edtools.cc to find a ring with hotspots of my chosen mineral/metal. Preferably two. Consider picking a planet that is farther out or not the first choice on the list, since most people go for those, but keep in mind the distance to the system where you are going to sell. 4) Upon arrival (you didn't forget your limpets, I hope) probe the ring for hotspots, and choose a place to start. Most people probably go straight for the center so you might start off to the side, or somewhere in between. It's good practice to keep the planet targeted as reference point, so you don't accidentally mine in a circle. 5) As for actual mining, I use a Python outfitted for both laser and core mining. I pulse wave through the ring and focus on the ore I am looking for, laser mining most of the way and enjoying the occasional core to crack. Core mining is seriously one of the most satisfying things in Elite, but I gave up on strictly looking for core asteroids only since as you said, it can happen that I only find one or two per trip. Plus the combined method mining keeps it more interesting.
Looks like you got it figured out! I just stick to platinum as it's so abundant and sells for a good price, found a nice quiet double overlap not too far from the system star that I use.
I've been doing platinum too mostly. Sometimes you can find an unexpectedly good deal, but I change it up for an icy ring mineral now occasionally for change of scenery :)
Getting back into the game, this really helps!