Mining Ore Operations

Introduction to Fleet Mining Operations

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The main ships of a mining fleet ofcourse are my Command Industrial: Orca and Porposie, Frigates: Venture (T1), Expedition Frigates: Prospect & Endurance (T2), Industrial (Specialized) haulers (T1) and the Guardian (Destroyers, Cruiser, Battleship ) Knight ships.

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Mining Vessels

Mining is normally performed with dedicated mining vessels (ORE Faction in Ship Browser). All Eve ships can be used in mining, only a few are specialized ore yields and cargo holds ability to help profit in million of isk. Remember large volumes of ore earn you greater profits, yields and cargo ability are what you think about first then tanking for dangerous areas.

Fleet survivability of each mining vessel is the ability to tank your ship and the agility to get away. (To avoid being pirate attacked or Suicide Ganking by another player).

ORE Mining Frigates do not have strong tanks but greater ability to escape being attacked. Defensive abilities are agility and combat drones to defend.

Insurance is a must for all mining ships that are at risky of loss, although you able to get a fraction of the original value of your ship something in isk is better than nothing ).

( Remember in High, Low, Null, and WH space, it still can take Only 1 powerful Ship to destroy you ).

Quick View of Skills and Training time for Mining Ships

Ship Fittings

(T1) Mining Harvester

(T2) Gas Harvester

( T1 & T2 ) Fighting Venture

Venture Mining Frigates

Mining Frigates:

The Venture is the ideal Alpha mining ship for most solo beginning miners.

Venture: Bonuses for Mining and Gas Harvesting as well as +2 Warp Stability (need more than a T2 scram to prevent it from warping). With 3 High slots, 3 middle slots, 1 lower slot and 3 rig slot. Ore bay of 5,000 m³ .

(T1) The Venture

Fitted two mining lasers and a salvager or two guns, one afterbuners for speed, shield extender and an adaptive shield with a mining upgrade for extra boost in yield. Different module fits depend on your desired abilities to mine, also a

T1 ore surveyor using a survey scanner gives you your volume of the selected ore to mine, market value must be reviewed before going out to mine.

The Venture is a strong choice, even in wormholes. Although it can fit the gas harvesting devices it must be placed in an Omega T2 due to the purchase of the Harvesting skill 19 million isk clearly out of reach for Alpha miners.

Cosmic signatures (wormhole) are where you will find most gas clouds, scannable locations in space. To locate a cosmic signature it must be scanned with scan probes.

You can see with (Alt-D and Alt-P) in scan window whether a system contains cosmic signatures, but identifying them and pinpointing them requires scan probes. The type is identified at 25% scan, the name is revealed at 75% scan and the site is warpable at 100% scan.

And yes there are Fighter Ventures, a small fleet can overwhelm a foe. Faster, fitted with long range ability, damage can be higher than they think.

Outer Ring Excavation T2 Ships

(T2): Bonuses for Mining and Gas Harvesting as well as the ability to fit a CovOps Cloak. Used for high risk mining inNullSec ore belt (uncommon) and Wormhole gas sites (common).

Here are some ideal ship fits: T1 and T2, Gas Cloud

(T2): As a Ore and Ice Mining ship, endurance is great in HiSec. With abilities to mine in low and nullsec, it is an excellent choice for Ice mining in a shattered Wormhole.

Here are some ideal fits: T1 and T2 Ice harvester

Mining Barges & Exhumer are

The Covetor achieves the highest potential yield of the three barges due to inherent yield bonuses. However, the Covetor also has the weakest tank of the three and it is fairly hard to add much tank to it. They also have the smallest Ore Holds (full after two to three cycles). Covetors are best used in organized mining fleets or in higher security status systems with Hauler support. One annoying attribute of the Covetor is its weak capacitor making warping to a far location take multiple warps.

The best solo miner ship with minimal hauler support, with the 25,500 m3 cargo hold. Although it has a weak capacitor making travel difficult. Tank wise it is limited only to rigs, and, yield wise it is basically average.

With the best mid slot for tanking,it is far more suitable for mining in risky environments The ore hold size is between the Covetor and Retriever but sizeable enough to make it appropriate for solo mining, especially in riskier areas. It is the slowest mining Barge of them all (only has 2 low slots for upgrades compared to the 3 of a Retriever or a Covetor), sacrificing yield for tank.

Mining Barges:

The Mining Barge presents a significant improvement in mining yield compared to the mining frigates as well as range. Retriever are best for ore bay storage, Procurors are best for mining yields, and Covertors barges support a much greater tank making them more resilient to attacks. However, barges are significantly slower in LowSec and NullSec, but mining in HighSec are the best.

Exhumers:

Are best in ore and ice mining. They have significantly better tanks, as well a greater yields and capacitor. These take an approximate one month train and have significantly more cost (although they will pay themselves off very quickly. In all Security levels, they can weather the damage abit depending on your ship fits and fleet boost support.

Industrial Command Ships

Propoise

The Porpoise is a smaller, more mobile and more affordable mining foreman platform that is perfect for supporting mining operations in dangerous space. It is capable of providing support to its allies through mining foreman bursts, remote shield boosters and survey scanners. The Porpoise also enjoys strong bonuses to mining drones, allowing it to pull in its own share of the ore in any mining operation.

Orca

The Orca used as Command support with its command burst modules. It can fit three command burst modules without help from rigs allowing single Orca to give all the necessary mining boosts to a fleet with Shields, Mining Yield and Armor. As a powerful fleet booster for mining operations, it main purpose as a general ore freighter and a sizeable ship maintenance bay that can be used to store assembled guardian ships, an ore hold, a fleet hangar and normal cargo hangar. The fleet hangar ability aides fleet members with direct access to this hangar, ship fit equipment, mining crystal, drones, etc..

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