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=== 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.

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]].

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 === 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.
+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]].