Mining 102

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Contents 1 Class Information 1.1 General information 1.2 Class Contents 1.3 Student requirements 1.4 Additional information 1.5 Notes for the teacher 2 Class Content 2.1 Mining Ship Progression 2.2 Mining Crystals 2.3 Haulers 2.4 Mining Support Ships 2.5 Mining Techniques 2.6 Ice Mining and Gas Harvesting 2.7 Leading a Mining Op 2.8 E-UNI Mining Section 2.9 Class Wrap-up

Class Information

This chapter contains the standard information of this class pertaining to scheduling and class contents. The general information should be sufficient to create a proper class topic for scheduling on the Eve University forums. Additional information relevant to the teacher is listed under Notes for the teacher.

General information

Intended for intermediate miners already familiar with topics discussed in Mining 101, seeking to learn of more advanced branches of the field.

• Duration: 01:00 to 01:30, depending on the amount of Q&A
• Location: Docked up safely in a station in Aldrat

Class Contents

• This class will cover

1. Advanced mining techniques, ships, and equipment
2. Ice Mining
3. Gas Harvesting
4. Low-sec/null-sec mining techniques

• This class will not cover (See Mining 101 for these)

1. Basic mining fundamentals
2. Entry-level mining ships
3. Basic asteroid mining techniques

Student requirements

• Mumble (microphone not a necessity)
• Access to the Class.E-UNI chat channel
• If practical exercise included, access to a mining ship fitted with a mining laser required

Additional information

This class is lecture and Q&A - it can include a practical exercise, at the teacher's option

Notes for the teacher

Required materials:

• Class.E-UNI chat channel, to receive questions and post relevant links
• You may also want to have this page open, as it includes links to useful illustrations: Mining
• This is the second part of a two-part series of classes on mining techniques. The syllabus for Mining 101, which covers more basic techniques, can be found here: Mining 101

While this syllabus is fairly detailed, teachers should not just recite this document. Make sure to read it thoroughly, use its structure as a guide for the structure of your class, but make it your own - feel free to insert your own insights and experiences as you cover the key points.

Class Content

Mining Ship Progression

• Mining barges - Able to equip strip miners and ice harvester turrets
  • Procurer:
    • Only one high slot greatly diminishes effectiveness
    • Can easily train Mining Barge-1 to -3, and Astrogeology-3 to -4 for Retriever, skipping Procurer completely
  • Retriever
    • The gold standard for mining barges
    • Easily skilled to and an efficient miner
  • Coveter
    • Often considered a poor miner, as it's only about 1 extra week of skills to fly a Hulk
    • Can be a viable alternative to the Hulk if ISK cost prevents Hulk purchase
• Exhumers (T2 Barges)
  • Skiff
    • Smallest exhumer
    • Niche usage is Mercoxit mining (for Morphite), otherwise a poor miner compared to other exhumers
    • +2 warp strength (ability to bug-out from lo/null dangers), +60% bonus to Mercoxit mining crystal yield per exhumers level
  • Mackinaw
    • Medium exhumer
    • Tailor-made for Ice Harvesting (will be discussed in Ice section below)
    • 100% bonus to ice harvester yield, 25% penalty to ice harvester cycle duration
  • Hulk
    • THE mining exhumer for most operations
    • Extra strip miner yield bonus per Exhumers level compared to other exhumers

Mining Crystals

• Increase mining yield
  • Volatile
• Crystal I x1.625 (needs Ore-3), Crystal II x1.75 (needs Ore-4)
  • example: Veldspar Mining Crystal I, average 20 hrs of continuous use
  • volatility: 0.1% (is actually 10%)
  • volatility damage: 0.025 HP
  • crystals damage: 1
  • example: Veldspar Mining Crystal II, average 10 hours of continuous use

Haulers

• Industrials
  • Tractor beams typically used to bring cans to them for pickup
  • Can also be used to salvage rat wrecks
  • Giant Secure Containers (GSCs) can be used to expand the cargo capacity of Industrials
    • (Show info a GSC) Volume << Capacity; thus takes up 3000m^3 of hauler's cargo space while allowing storage of 3900m^3 of ore
• Freighters
  • Larger, but cannot pick up items directly from a jetcan

Mining Support Ships

"Capital Industrial Ships"

Skills

• Mining Foreman: 2% yield per level
• Mining Director: 100% bonus to link effectiveness per level after Lv2

• Battlecruisers?
  • Used in the past as mining support ships, unpopular due to introduction of capital industrials
• Orca
  • Gigantic ship specifically designed as a mining support ship
  • Unique features:
    • Corp hangar ("secret" storage)
    • Ship maintenance bay (storing of assembled ships)
    • Ship fitting bay (allows ship refitting in space, away from a station)
  • Mining Foreman Links:
    • Laser optimization, decreases cycle time
    • Mining laser field enhancement, increases range
    • Harvester capacitor efficiency, decreases capacitor use (rarely used, if ever)
• Rorqual
  • A larger version of the Orca, plus a few quirks
  • Clone Vat Bay
  • Ore Compression
  • Transformation into "siege" mode http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI9SOpB2Sms

Mining Techniques

• Jetcan mining
  • Must be mindful of refresh time on cans, don't let a full can go bye-bye!
• Survey Scanners
  • Can be used to identify which asteroids have a large content
  • Useful for AFK-mining in Hi-sec
• Asteroid variants
  • I.e. Veldspar, Concentrated Veldspar, Dense Veldspar (+0%, +5%, +10% refining yields respectively)
• Asteroid replenishment
  • Asteroid fields are replenished during daily downtime
  • MYTH: Leaving an asteroid with 1 ore remaining will ensure it's replenishment at downtime.
    • FALSE: It's completely random
• Partial cycle cutoff
• Hold overload
• Foreman tagging
  • In small-gang mining, the foreman will often designate certain asteroids as tagged targets for miners to avoid wasting partial cycles on near-empty 'roids.
  • Another option is to designate a particular type of ore to certain fleet members. Miners can simply remove other types of ore from their overlay and run no risk of interference with each other.
• Perfect refining
  • Necessary to ensure the greatest profit from mining
  • Generally achieved by skills: Refining V, Refinery Efficiency IV
    • Refinery Efficiency IV allows for refining specialization skills
  • Standard: 6.67 standing with station's corporation (removes tax) and specific ore refining skill II (other combinations possible)
• For more information on advanced mining techniques
  • Halada's Mining Guide - Official Website or Guide v3 Mirror
  • E-UNI wiki: Mining

Ice Mining and Gas Harvesting

• Ice mining fundamentals
  • Ice mining cycle times (longer than standard miners or strip miners)
  • Reducing ice mining cycle times
  • Specialized ice mining equipment: Mackinaw (exhumer)
    • 25% longer cycle time, but returns two units of ice per cycle
• Gas harvesting fundamentals
  • Scanning down a LADAR site
  • Fitting gas "suckers"

Leading a Mining Op

• Mining Boss responsibilities
  • Scheduling the op
  • Scouting the op location
  • Arranging operational support
    • Orcas
    • Haulers (may be a second Orca)
  • Refining = have a means of perfect/near-perfect refining available (can link names of dedicated mining Unistas)
  • Paying the team
• Mining op record-keeping and reporting
  • Mining op spreadsheet v2.0: http://forum.eveuniversity.org/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=22599 [Update 11 September 2010]
  • Online Google Docs version: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AnU4lXsxoivgdDY2M1ktRlBtTExsZGxvbUNqT3pDOXc&hl=en [Version 1.7]
  • Scrapyard's mining op worksheet: Scrapyard's Mining Op Worksheet
  • MiningBuddy - EVE mining op management application: http://miningbuddy.net/
• Mining boss resources
  • Mining op guide: Running_a_Mining_Op
  • Mining Boss 101 class: http://dl.eve-files.com/media/corp/Viperous/Mining_Boss_101.mp3

E-UNI Mining Section

• Facilities within Uni
  • E-UNI Mining Manager: R0bowing, manages official E-UNI mining resources
  • Mining ship loaner program
  • E-UNI chat channels for miners
    • "Industry.E-UNI" chat channel: scheduled and impromptu fleet mining operations
  • for-profit and for-Uni operations
  • Perfect refining volunteers
  • E-UNI Cooperative Mining Guide: http://go-dl.eve-files.com/media/corp/DeeCarson/Eve_Uni_Co-Op_Mining_Guide.pdf

Class Wrap-up

• Thanks for attending this class!
  • I would appreciate any feedback from people on how to improve the class or my own lecture style
• Solicit Questions via Class.E-Uni or open discussion on Mumble
• Practical exercise (if performing): Run a basic mining op in a nearby system