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Mission mining is defined as harvesting the asteroids that are commonly found in [[Deadspace]] combat/encounter missions. Different [[Missions|missions]] have different amounts of [[Ore|ore]], often varying based on the enemy fought (Guristas vs Serpentis vs Angel Cartel) and the level of the combat mission. Some of these mission ore pockets can be harvested on the first day and will then respawn after the daily downtime. In addition, you'll be presented with a known volume of ore with no competitors.

The general strategy to remember is that you should always be careful to avoid completing objectives if you want the [[Ore|ore]] to respawn after [[Downtime|downtime]].  This means avoiding killing key structures that will trigger completion of the mission.  In some missions, completion can be triggered by using the acceleration gate to move to the next mission pocket.  So your goal should be to do as little as possible inside the mission area if you want to mine the mission ore all week.

Note: Please list missions in alphabetical order with titles as close to how they appear in the in-game [[Journal]] as possible.

 

 

|+ Total m3: 260,000 m3

| Veldspar

 

 

| Veldspar

| 11

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

| 7,200 m3

| colspan="4" | You have to mine to make the hostile spawn. The target will appear about 60 seconds after you begin mining (one cycle for a regular mining laser, or two for a Civilian mining laser). The NPC can be easily tanked by anything larger than a Venture.

=== Cash Flow for Capsuleers ===

==== Part 6 of 10 ====

 

Note: All asteroids have been removed from this mission as of the Rhea expansion, 2014-12-09.

 

Under '''Fixes''' | '''Gameplay''' at https://community.eveonline.com/news/patch-notes/patch-notes-for-rhea

 

"''All the unnecessary asteroids in the mission Cash Flow for Capsuleers 6 of 10 have been removed''"

 

=== Gas Site Scanning (Exploration 5 of 5) ===

The gas cloud is next to the target container, behind a locked acceleration gate.

{| class="wikitable"

|+ Total m3: 1,000 m3

| Azure Mykoserocin

| 100

| 1,000 m3

Stage 4: Omber (3 x 61k)

| colspan="4" | There are no acceleration gates, but the asteroids are spread out across a 100km half-circle. The site is Deadspace, so bookmarking an asteroid to warp to will not allow you to warp to you; you will always land at the normal warp-in point. There is only a single hostile NPC in the room, and killing it is the objective. It's a destroyer-class NPC, and hits fairly hard for a Level 1 mission. A Retriever fit for max yield may not be able to handle the incoming damage.

2,834,000 Veldspar, 1,411,000 Scordite or 41 veld 70-80k (2,870,000 est), 22 scor 60-75k (1.230.000 est).

 

Scordite is randomly dispersed in the center of the Veldspar "sphere".

 

* I suggest doing this with 2-4 Hulks (or barges), an Orca, and an Industrial hauler.

 

Position the Orca in the center of the roid field (about 50KM from any Veldspar roid) and use the Hulks/Barges to mine into jet cans as they travel around the Veldspar rings. Tractor the cans to the Orca when full (or out of reach as the hulks move) and have the hauler take them from the Orca to the station. If you have more than one mining ship, have one of them travel around the Veldspar ring that is arranged horizontally, while the other miner travels around the vertically arranged ring. As you travel around the rings, you will periodically be within mining range of some of the Scordite roids. Mine these as you find yourself within range. When all the Veldspar is gone, you should only have a small number of scattered Scordite roids left in the center of the space. Most/all should be in mining range of the Orca, and this is not a deadspace area, so you can simply warp out, then warp back in to the Orca to quickly reposition the miners and be able to finish mining the remaining Scordite.

 

If you do not touch the Repair Station, this mission will respawn at DT and remain farm-able for the entire week.

Many Veldspar asteroids, not in deadspace and no gates.

Additional notes: If you warp in with a Hulk (or other mining ship) and an Orca, you can fly the Hulk around the circumference of the ring of roids surrounding the Warehouse (mission objective is contained in the warehouse) just staying more than 24Km range of the Warehouse and the NPC mission ships won't even spawn. Use the Hulk to mine into cans and tractor beam the cans to the Orca (70KM tractor range on an Orca). By staying outside the trigger range of the warehouse, you won't get the "Objective Complete" message in you mission details and hence, can mine the full 2.250mil units of Veldspar each day for a week (with Trit prices currently at 4.06 ISK/unit... 2.250mil units of veld = roughly 24mil ISK worth of Tritanium per day x 7 days = about 168mil ISK for the week).

If you follow this technique, you will get some standard belt rats spawning, but just either tank them or take them out with drones and you can easily keep this mission farm-able for the whole week.

gate, repeatable.

19 veld 50-90k (1,171,666 avg)

24 roids 19 Veld/5 Pyroxeres No Gates Unknown Amount  

=== Hidden Stash, The ===

35 Veldspar asteroids, from 1k to 12k, with 3 90K asteroids all within 15km of each other. Rats do appear sometimes

32 roids half Veld/Half Scord unknown amount , large roids though No gates

688,401 Veldspar

Room 1 Veldspar 0.5 mil units rogue drones can spawn if near Mining Post 1 reposition needed for barge

Room 2 Veldspar 188k units all roids with 15 km of warp in point small asteroids many less than 1 strip cycle.

3000 Arkonor units in 1 asteroid

11 Veldspar Asteroids = 840,000 Veldspar (approx 90k units each)

No acceleration gates, Arkonor roid is 27km from warp-in

You'll get this storyline running missions for Lai Dai and Expert Housing near Korsiki, or in Nyubainen, near Jita. Leave one rat alive, and you can mine this mission for a week, earning you well over 150 million (yes, 150,000,000) ISK once the ore is refined. Just make sure to store the ore in a station that someone has perfect refine at, because at 16 m3 per unit, Arkonor is difficult to move in large quantities.

* 14 Veldspar ~70-90k each, 975,122 total units (97.5k m3)

* 17 Scordite ~40k each, 929,811 total units (139.5k m3)

Asteroids are all clumped together in a line about 40-45km long and 5-8km across.

'''Resisting the smart-bomb with a venture:''' It is possible to resist the smart-bomb and mine anyway, I did mine Pyroxeres semi-AFK with a Venture that never loose more than half its shield (Citadel patch, fitted with tech I shield modules and rigs to 3249 EHP 13 HP/s with 1 medium and 1 small shield extender, mid and low passive shield recharger/relay, shield rigs). Note that the smart-bomb only make damages when mining, therefore it stops when the asteroid is depleted or the ore hold is full. This with a < 1 month account, no advanced skills, no tech II, a few millions ISK including rigs.

Dont loot the objective in the mission and you can do this until mission expires. It looks like 2 of 3 and 3 of 3 also has rocks in it but have not yet completed those.

Veldspar, Scordite?

* Veldspar x35 (549,059 units, ~54,900 m3)

Single room mission, all asteroids will be within 20km after warp-in. Half of the asteroids are less then 8k units with the mid-sized ones ranging from 9k to 15k. Only three of the asteroids are 90k units in size.  Ideal mission pocket for a mining frigate or cruiser, more difficult for larger ships with mining strips.

=== Gone Berserk ===

* Veldspar x47 asteroids (1,659,846 units, ~166,000 m3)

All asteroids are very close to each other so that you hardly need to move.  About 595,000 m3 of total ore.

=== Downing the Slavers (pt 1, unconfirmed) ===   

there's 280K of veldspar - 32 10K to 75K asteroids.

6 x Veldspar @ 90000

10 x Scordite @ 25000

=== Vengeance ===

Veldspar