Eve Online Mining Guide

Mining in Eve Online:

Mining is both the most common, and oldest form of making money. It basically means getting a frigate, cruiser or battleship. and fitting mining lasers on
them. Mining is done frequently by having a few miners in asteroid belts (which are found in nearly every system) fill up cans, and then have industrial

class ships pick up the ore left in the "jettison cans", this can also be done in secure cans, however they only anchor in less secure systems. The reason

secure cans are being used is because of the fear of so called Ore thief's, They're people in industrial ships that will come to your cans and take the stuff

in them, they cannot be shot or they will trigger concord (=police) response.
Usually the best mining ships are the ships with most gun slots (=most miners or
Mining Barges).
Frigates: The race here doesn't matter, usually frigate pilots will mine solo, therefore cargo hold would be nice to have. for example, bantam, probe,

imicus.
Cruiser: If you have time and money to spare for the skill I would recommend getting the thorax, this ships got 2000 m3 drone space and 5 turret slots, so

defence and mining capability are at its best with drones and 5 lasers here, a vexor or maller would be second choice, below that most ships will have near

equal mining ability.
Battleships: Most battleships have enough turret slots to be a pretty good miner (tempest and domi = 6, arma and mega = 7, apoc = 8 ) drone bays on
these ships are all fairly enough to keep defence at nominal levels. The best ship is of course the apoc, but the 1 or 2 more slots it's got only insure a

12.5 or 25% higher yield, which with skills isn't that much of a difference (especially if it's the first battleship I would recommend the Armageddon since

its half the price).
Mining Barges are a special skill made just for mining they are the best. Mining can of course be done in different areas, I consider: 1.0 - 0.9, 0.8 -
0.5, 0.4 - 0.1, 0.0. of course location also means what minerals are available, but ill keep it general (in practical terms one or 2 minerals will be missing

in each area because of the location/region the belt is located) (profits are considering 1 indy and 1 battleship, solo): 1.0 - 0.9: These are some of the

worst areas to mine in, these are often very close to general traveling routes and will be mine by hordes of people and strip-mined by mega corporations

they'll contain scordite and veldspar most of the time. also there are no pirates. expect several millions per hour 0.8 - 0.5: These belts are often mined

unless you find one out of the normal routes people have, I found a few totally unmined, this can be profitable.
Common minerals are veldspar, pyrox, scordite, plagio, and in the lower security levels also omber (0.7) and kernite (0.5). Expect a few frigate pirates, but
nothing drones cant handle. also player pirates are not to be found in these sectors. Profits are again several millions per hour, yet more then 0.9 and 1.0,
but at a slightly higher risk.
0.4 - 0.1: STAY OUT OF HERE unless in rather large groups, in my opinion this is the domain of the real player pirates, expect to find descent ore, cruiser

NPC pirates, but worst of all player pirates, these are people usually working in groups of 3 or so, they will first come in with one of them, he will scan

you, by this time you should already be at a station or even docked! If you plan to mine here, in any kind of group smaller then your whole corporation watch

local with your life. profit can be around 2 - 3 mil per hour per person if it's mined correctly. however against the risks I suggest going back to 0.5 - 0.8

for more profit. or if you know how to run properly you can stay here. There are however sentry guns at the stations so you're safe there.
0.0: lawless space, no sentries, a players will is the law here. You can be killed without any security hit. however in my experience as long as the refinery

and your mining spot are close to each other there is not that much risks from player compared to immense rewards. expect
10 - 20 million per hour or sometimes even more. the NPC's are very powerful and 1 or 2 battleship sized defenders are a must (or park your own tanked

battleship in a safe spot).
If you're on your own id recommend ninja mining, which basically means, get a ship that can run properly. park an indy at a safe spot in the system, and mine

in the ship until you see pirates. once you see them, run to a moon or your safe spot. Wait for about 10 minutes till your scanners clear and go back. Then

once the can contains about the amount your indy can carry get your indy out of its safe spot and make it grab the stuff also bookmaking your mining asteroid

is a good idea
so you won't have to travel much.
My own favourite: 0.0 space, if you're in a good alliance, have a good group and dot have 2 many player pirates around this is the nr 1 way to make money,

however it's only for the people with nerves of steel and people that live with the knowledge they could lose a ship daily.
For anyone that does not have this and people that are simply not ready for it yet I would recommend 0.8 - 0.5, that is if you can find a descent system. -

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A newbie would pass the chance to get to more valuable ores in the low security areas, at least until he has a better ship and PvP equipment to face the ever

raging pirates without being podded too often.
But the advanced miners, with better ships and skills to boast, don't usually die wondering. If there is profit to be had, it's very likely that they'll go

for it. However, even for daredevils, advanced mining in low security areas is a sport that requires much planning and guts.

If you want to learn the Eve Online Secrets on ISK making, do not forget to check out GuideLoft's eve online guide. GuideLoft is the one of the best websites providing Unofficial strategy guides to most MMORPG games. Best of all, they offer a full satisfaction guarantee!