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Refining (also known as reprocessing in EVE terminology; the two terms are interchangeable) is a miner’s second best friend, the first being powerful mining lasers. Refining allows a miner to refine their raw ore into usable minerals that can be sold or used for personal production. However, it is unlikely that new players' skill sets will allow for the efficient use of a refinery, and large portions of the refined minerals will be lost as ‘waste’, so new miners may find it more profitable to sell the raw ore they mine rather than refining it.

==Equipment==

In addition, NPC stations take a [[Tax#Equipment_tax|tax]] for using their reprocessing facilities. The tax is based on the player's personal or corporation standings with the station's owner, whichever standing is higher is used. The tax starts at 5% with 0 standings and falls to 0% at 6.67 standings with the station owner. Hence, it's a good idea to reprocess at stations for which you or your corp have the best relationship. See [[Reprocessing#Equipment_Tax|Equipment Tax]] below for more detail.

==Pilot Skills==

To further reduce waste, there are individual ore skills for each ore type, and a generic ice skill for all ice types - these can be found on the [[Skills:Resource Processing|Resource Processing]] page. Each level of that respective skill offers a final 2% increase to efficiency for the corresponding material, 10% at level V. The max possible reprocessing efficiency with all 5 skills, at a 50% NPC station with perfect standings is 70%. Prior to the Lifeblood expansion, the maximum possible efficiency in high-security space was 88% with perfect skills and a +4% [[Reprocessing#Implants|implant]] using a fully upgraded citadel. You can never achieve "perfect reprocessing" and there will always be some waste.

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==Reprocessing in a station==

In this example, we have approximately 120,000 units of Plagioclase designated for processing. With 39% overall efficiency, the processing yield at a glance will give approximately 51,850 units of Tritanium, 10,000 units of Pyerite and 51,850 units of Mexallon.  

To see more detailed information about exact yields and calculations, simply hover over any item in either the input or output window. For example, hovering over the Plagioclase in the input window shows us the following:  

* The base yield from station equipment is 32%.   

[[File:refining_detail.png|center|]]

To calculate this manually, or import into a tool or spreadsheet, you can use the following formula.<br />

''Station Equipment x (1 + Processing skill x 0.03) x (1 + Processing Efficiency skill x 0.02) x (1 + Ore Processing skill x 0.02) x (1 + Processing Implant)''

:<math> \displaystyle \text{Reprocessing yield} = ((50 + Rm) \times ( 1 + Sec )) \times ( 1 + Sm ) \times ( 1 + ( 0.03 \times R )) \times ( 1 + ( 0.02 \times Re )) \times ( 1 + ( 0.02 \times Op )) \times ( 1 + Im ) </math>

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| Rm || Rig Modifier || 0 (No Rig), 1 (T1), 3 (T2) ||

Standup L-Set Reprocessing Monitor I/II

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[[Skills:Resource_Processing#Resource_Processing_Skills|Resource Processing Skills]]<br />

Examples:<br />

{{sk|Rare Moon Ore Processing|icon=yes}}

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==Scrapmetal Reprocessing==

To calculate this manually, or import into a tool or spreadsheet, you can use the following formula:<br />

''Station Equipment x (1 + Scrapmetal Processing x 0.02)''

To see more detailed information about exact yields and calculations, simply hover over any item in either the input or output window. For example, hovering over the Metal Scraps in the input window shows us the following:  

* The base yield from station equipment is 50%.   

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| Arkonor || 16 || 8.8 || 0.0055

{{See also|Asteroids and ore}}

The following table lists the mineral content (gross yield) of each ore type, and the location(s) where they can be found. Compressed ores require 1 unit to refine, while uncompressed ores require 100 units. +5%/+10% ore varieties are not included.

Cells highlighted in green denote that the ore is the best source of that mineral per m3.

|+ Ore reprocessing amounts (per batch)

! Ore Type

! m3

The table below shows the ore reprocessing values, normalized to 1 m3 of ore.

|+ Ore reprocessing amounts (per m3)

! Ore Type

! m3/batch