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Mining requires only a mining laser and refinery aboard your ship to begin and thus is not like other games where a skill would need to be trained or leveled up.
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* A ship - A [[Cobra Mk. III]] is recommended due to the size of its cargo hold and its maneuverability.
* Mining Laser - To extract the ore from the asteroid.
* Refinery - To process the collected ore.
The Mining Laser and Refinery can be found for a reasonable price (5,000 - 15,000 CR) at [[Wingrove Platform]] in [[Styx]].
==Locations==
Asteroids can be found in some systems. By using to the Targets menu on the left side of your cockpit you can find targets with names similar to this: [PLACEHOLDER] (Only works if you have information about the system, either bought it from the Cartographers service or scanned the system yourself). Lock on to it and
==Process==
Having chipped off a piece of rock you now have to scoop it up with your cargo scoop. To do so you have to engage your scoop (just like you would with your landing gear or hardpoints), then fly slowly towards the target. Upon engaging the Cargo Scoop you will find that a blue box will have appeared on the lower left of you HUD. On there you should, if pointing at the rock, see
Now that you have the rock in your hold you will find that, if going to the right hand menu under the tab Cargo, you have some names of minerals in there. Press the minerals you want to refine. Maybe you have picked up 15% gold and 10% Indium. Then you can press the gold and the Indium so that when you next time pick up some Indium and Gold they will "stack"
==Selling==
▲Lock on to it and get into hyperspace just like you would when going to another station or a planet. When you have dropped out of hyperspace you will most likely be staring at a massive, bright star. Ignore that. Scattered with varying (asteroid ring to asteroid ring) density you will find mineable asteroids there.
▲Once you have acquired the equipment and found yourself a nice asteroid to mine you are ready to start mining. To do so you have to make sure you bind your Mining Laser just like you do with any other weapon in game. If you have more than just Mining Laser on your hardpoints you will find that making a separate firing group for the Mining Lasers is a good idea. When you have bound the lasers correctly you can then fly up to the asterioid and blast away at it. You have to hold down your trigger for a while (depending on the quality of Mining Laser you have bought) before a piece of rock chips off. When you get the hang of it you will find that waiting until you have mined several rocks off the asteroid before collecting them will save you a lot of time.
▲Having chipped off a piece of rock you now have to scoop it up with your cargo scoop. To do so you have to engage your scoop (just like you would with your landing gear or hardpoints), then fly slowly towards the target. Upon engaging the Cargo Scoop you will find that a blue box have appeared on the lower left of you HUD. On there you should, if pointing at the rock, see a icon in the crosshairs (the box). Continue to fly slowly towards the rock while holding rock in the middle of the crosshairs of the cargo scoop crosshair until you have successfully acquired it.
▲Now that you have the rock in your hold you will find that, if going to the right hand menu under the tab Cargo, you have some names of minerals in there. Press the minerals you want to refine. Maybe you have picked up 15% gold and 10% Indium. Then you can press the gold and the Indium so that when you next time pick up some Indium and Gold they will "stack" ontop of what you have already. The % stands for the amount of percent it is of a full "stack". One full "stack" gives you 1 ton of cargo (one unit of whatever mineral you have collected).
It is now the extra cargo hold of a [[Cobra Mk. III]] comes in over something like an [[Eagle Mk II]] or a [[Sidewinder Mk. I]]. You have to go to a station to sell whatever minerals you have collected. This is easier said than done. Most systems and stations do not want minerals and your best shot is therefore to look for systems that are "Refinery economies" because they are interested in materials they can refine and sell at a higher price. [[Styx]] is an example of such a system.
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[[Styx]] is an excellent example of where we see a massive drop in prices. It has both mining equipment for sale, is very close to the spawn point for new players, have mineable asteroid fields and is a refinery economy (means it will have a constant demand for minerals to refine), it is therefore going to be very popular to sell minerals there, which is going to lead to a price drop due to a saturated marked.
==Trivia==
* Added in the Beta 3 Update which went live on October 28th, 2014.
[[Category:Profession]]
[[Category:Tutorial]]
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