Asteroids and ore: Difference between revisions

'''Asteroids''' are large irregular chunks of rock that can be found in many places throughout New Eden. When mined, asteroids yield '''ore''' which, when refined, produces minerals of various types that serve as the basic building blocks of almost every [[Manufacturing|craftable]] item.

=== Asteroid belts ===

Virtually every star system in EVE (with the notable exception of Jita) has at least one asteroid belt. Most star systems have several -- up to more than a dozen in some cases. These belts are listed on the [[overview]] and the right-click menu, and can have two kinds of geometry: one is a rough semicircle of asteroids, approximately 50 km in diameter, the other being asteroids dispersed over a spherical volume with a radius of about 70 km. A ship warping to an asteroid belt's beacon (through the right-click menu or the overview) will warp to the center of the asteroids. Note that mining lasers have an (unboosted) range of only 10-15 km, so in order to mine asteroids a ship has to fly closer to the belt after warping in. If you want to save on travel time, you can warp to [[Mining#Bookmarks|mining bookmarks]] instead.

=== Deadspace pockets ===

=== Ore Prospecting Arrays ===

In player-owned [[Sovereignty|sovereign nullsec]], it is possible to deploy {{co|wheat|Ore Prospecting Arrays}}, a deployable sovereignty structure which, when deployed in a system, periodically generates asteroid clusters of various sizes at set intervals.

:[[Small Asteroid Cluster]] • [[Medium Asteroid Cluster]] • [[Large Asteroid Cluster]] • [[Enormous Asteroid Cluster]] • [[Colossal Asteroid Cluster]]

== Asteroid distribution ==

[[File:Asteroid-belt-overview.jpg|thumb|250px|An asteroid belt, as seen on the [[overview]]. Note the belt's warp-in point (marked with an inverted triangle), as well as the variety of different asteroid types (all labelled according to what kind of ore they contain).]]

== Ore locations ==

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%;"  

! rowspan=2 | System<br>security<br>rating

! colspan=4 | Quarter

! [[File:Logo_faction_amarr_empire.png|64px|link=|Amarr quarter]]

! [[File:Logo_faction_caldari_state.png|64px|link=|Caldari quarter]]

| [[File:ore_veldspar.png|32px|link=|Veldspar]] Veldspar<br>[[File:ore_pyroxeres.png|32px|link=|Pyroxeres]] Pyroxeres<br>[[File:ore_kernite.png|32px|link=|Kernite]] Kernite<br> [[File:ore_bistot.png|32px|link=|Bistot]] Bistot <br> [[File:ore_mercoxit.png|32px|link=|Mercoxit]] Mercoxit <br> [[File:ore_spodumain.png|32px|link=|Spodumain]] Spodumain

| [[File:ore_veldspar.png|32px|link=|Veldspar]] Veldspar<br> [[File:ore_arkonor.png|32px|link=|Arkonor]] Arkonor <br> [[File:ore_bistot.png|32px|link=|Bistot]] Bistot <br> [[File:ore_mercoxit.png|32px|link=|Mercoxit]] Mercoxit

|}

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%;"  

|-

| [[File:ore_spodumain.png|32px|link=|Ducinium]] Ducinium [[File:ore_arkonor.png|32px|link=|Eifyrium]] Eifyrium [[File:ore_veldspar.png|32px|link=|Mordunium]] Mordunium [[File:ore_omber.png|32px|link=|Ytirium]] Ytirium

|-

=== Ore variants ===

Each asteroid type has three further subtypes that yield more (+5% / +10%) minerals when [[reprocessing|reprocessed]]. Otherwise they are identical in every way to their base ore, and are found in the same regions, but in lower quantities. For instance, if an asteroid belt has Omber asteroids, it will also have some Silvery Omber asteroids and a few Golden Omber asteroids. If you get the chance, you should always mine the higher-yield variants before mining the base ore.

{| class="wikitable"

! Base ore

! +5% variant

| 0

| 0

| Arkonor

| 16