Today Fregeri an I decided to rent an Argo Mole and try out mining a bit. While it did prove challenging at first, it turned out to be quite profitable when you have an Idea of what you’re doing.
We decided to rent the Mole at Port Tressler for 223.000 UEC for one day, to have a look at it. After a quick inspection and getting to know the layout a bit, we departed to an asteroid field in orbit around MicroTech.
An asteroid formation around Yela – Crusader – Stanton
After fiddling with the controls and trying our best not to blow ourselves up, we our ore storage was full of 96 SCU of mixed ores and raw materials. We brought them to the refinery MIC-L1 Shallow Frontier Station were we paid 2.240 UEC to have them refined over the next day or so into usable and more importantly sell able pure resources.
The MIC-L1 Shallow Frontier Station which is quite heavily hired to refine ores into pure material.
Sunward from MicroTech (planet) — Stanton system
We next concentrated our mining efforts on more valuable resources, even if this meant searching for longer. Namely Taranite and Bexalite. We managed to load half of our 96 SCU ore storage with these, the rest was less valuable stuff we piked up together with the Taranite and Bexalite like copper. We hat all that also refined at MIC-L1 for 9.900 UEC, which would take 34 hours, though simultaneously, not consecutively.
At his point I had spent 235.140 UEC on this endeavor, and while our calculations showed that we could sell the refined materials for more, at this point it was not guaranteed.
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