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Once you have chosen what kind of ore you would like to mine, you will want to maximise the quantity you mine over time. This involves choosing what [[Mining Ships|ship]] to mine in, what [[ORE_Basic_Ship_and_Skill_Guide#Fitting_strategies_and_mining_modules|modules]] to fit to it, and what [[Mining#Skills|skills]] to train; see those links for more details.

=== Ice, gas~~, and moon~~ harvesting ===

=== Ice mining and gas harvesting ===

In addition to ore, ice and gas can also be harvested. While the actual harvesting mechanics are fairly similar, the ships, equipment, and locations differ significantly from mining ore. ''(Further details can be found in [[ice harvesting]] and [[gas cloud harvesting]].)''

~~While~~ the process of ~~extracting resources from moons is often referred as "~~moon mining~~", it involves the use of~~ [[player-owned starbases]] ~~rather than ships~~, and is ~~a completely different activity~~.

=== Moon mining ===

The Lifeblood expansion was released on October 24, 2017, and brought with it substantial changes to the process of moon mining. Previously moon mining was completed using [[player-owned starbases]], but the Lifeblood expansion introduced a new class of [Upwell structures] called [Upwell structures#Refineries|refineries] which are anchored in 0.5 space or below near a moon mining beacon and then used to extract a chunk of the moon for mining. The extraction process is beyond the scope of this article, but once the chunk has been extracted, it exists as an asteroid field which contains both normal ore types and special moon-specific ores which can be mined for moon materials. After extraction, the mining is performed using the same mining equipment and processes described in this article, with the exception of Tier 2 modulated mining lasers requiring moon ore-specific crystals for good efficiency.

Additional details on moon mining are available in the article on [[Moon mining]].

== Ships ==

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 Once you have chosen what kind of ore you would like to mine, you will want to maximise the quantity you mine over time. This involves choosing what [[Mining Ships|ship]] to mine in, what [[ORE_Basic_Ship_and_Skill_Guide#Fitting_strategies_and_mining_modules|modules]] to fit to it, and what [[Mining#Skills|skills]] to train; see those links for more details.
-=== Ice, gas, and moon harvesting ===
+=== Ice mining and gas harvesting ===
 In addition to ore, ice and gas can also be harvested. While the actual harvesting mechanics are fairly similar, the ships, equipment, and locations differ significantly from mining ore. ''(Further details can be found in [[ice harvesting]] and [[gas cloud harvesting]].)''
-While the process of extracting resources from moons is often referred as "moon mining", it involves the use of [[player-owned starbases]] rather than ships, and is a completely different activity.
+=== Moon mining ===
+The Lifeblood expansion was released on October 24, 2017, and brought with it substantial changes to the process of moon mining.  Previously moon mining was completed using [[player-owned starbases]], but the Lifeblood expansion introduced a new class of [Upwell structures] called [Upwell structures#Refineries|refineries] which are anchored in 0.5 space or below near a moon mining beacon and then used to extract a chunk of the moon for mining.  The extraction process is beyond the scope of this article, but once the chunk has been extracted, it exists as an asteroid field which contains both normal ore types and special moon-specific ores which can be mined for moon materials.  After extraction, the mining is performed using the same mining equipment and processes described in this article, with the exception of Tier 2 modulated mining lasers requiring moon ore-specific crystals for good efficiency.
+Additional details on moon mining are available in the article on [[Moon mining]].
 == Ships  ==