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The Procurer is the toughest of the T1 barges, but has a middleing ore hold and mineing yield. As a result, if you are at high risk from a gank, or otherwise know you are going to be takeing a lot of damage, this should be the first ship you reach for.

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===Retriever===

The Retriever has the largest ore hold out of the T1 mineing barges, but has a middleing tank and yield. Its the most effective ship if you have no support (and are not worried about being ganked), as the large hold reduces the time spend traveling between your drop off point and the belt, which more then makes up for the slight drop in yield compared to the coverter.

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|name=Retriever, Hisec Mining

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It's a tight squeeze to fit the Mining Upgrade here with Electronics IV. This is a good opportunity to train up some decent drone skills, especially if you want to take on the rats in 0.5 or 0.6 space, to make up for the relative lack of tank on this fit.

===Covetor===

The Covetor has the greatest mineing yield out of the T1 mineing barges, but has the smallest ore hold and the least tank. As a result, you need support from another pilot to be effective at your role, as you waste the time saved mineing trying to haul the ore back to your drop off point.

|name=Covetor, Hisec Mining

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|name=Covetor, Mining w/ T2 Strips

* This is a good point to train for T2 Strip Miners, which add a significant boost to your mining output but require more management and capacitor skills.

* With no capacitor skills, you'll only just have enough capacitor to start all three strip miners at once, and only with hisec ore crystals. This can cause problems especially if you want to start mining just after coming out of warp, and training a couple of capacitor skills at this point is recommended.

==Exhumer==

Upgrade to the procurer, the Skiff has a larger cargo hold then the hulk, but less then the retriever. However, it has the largest tank out of all the exhumers, and when fitted out has as much ehp as a battleship, makeing it all but impossible to gank for a profit in highsec. The skiff used to be a dedicated mercoxit mineing ship, but now is equaly effective at mineing all types of ore and ice. It also used to have an inate +2 to warp strength, which has since been removed.

|name=Skiff, Mercoxit Mining

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* Since the Skiff has to spend its time in nullsec, it needs a much better tank than most of the fits here in order to deal with nullsec rats. The shield modules can be replaced with faction items depending on personal preference and ISK available. The shield booster is the most common module to upgrade.

===Mackinaw===

Upgrade for the retriever, the Mackinaw has more tank then the hulk but less then the skiff, and has the largest ore hold of the exhumers, makeing it ideal for solo mineing. The mackinaw used to have bonuses for ice mineing, but now is equaly proficient at harvesting ore and ice.

|name=Mackinaw, Ice Mining

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*This is a basic fit, and needs to avoid fitting mining upgrades in order to fit a decent tank.

|name=Mackinaw, T2 Ice Mining

* If you mine ice often, then it's worthwhile to train up to T2 Ice Miners for a significant boost in yield.  

* This fit is the fastest possible ice harvester, but doesn't have room for a significant tank and needs Electronics and Mining Upgrades trained to 5. Between the ship's naturally good T2 resists and the surprisingly effective civilian boosters, though, it should tank hisec rats fine, and you can create a balance between this and the previous fit depending on the situation.

===Hulk===

If you do not care about tank and have fleet support so you don't need to worry about hauling your extracted ore, the Hulk provides the most yield per cycle of any of the mineing barges. Its tough enough to be able to hold off smaller rats long enough to have them killed, but can't be tanked enough to prevent a determined player from ganking your ship and still makeing a profit out of it.

|name=Hulk, Hisec Mining

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*Like the Mackinaw, the Hulk has trouble fitting a normal tank when using two T2 upgrades. We can do slightly better than four civilian shield boosters here, though. ( edit: Powergrid fit is still very tight. Engineering V is a must for this one. )

|name=Hulk, Nullsec Mining

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* This fit should be able to tank a lot of nullsec pirate spawns, but upgrading the shield booster to a faction or deadspace booster is a common choice that will significantly upgrade the tanking capabilities.

==Industrial==

The Orca is a command ship designed to support mining fleets, but can be fill many support roles due to its large cargoholds and ship maintenance bay.

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* The Armor Maintenance bots give the Orca a little bit of extra utility: they can repair any armor damage that other ships might have taken, instead of having to spend ISK to repair at the station.

|name=Orca, Mining Support EM

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* Another variant which is slightly more efficient than the above mentioned fit. By changing to a single large shield expander and adding an EM-hardener, the ship will have a higher average resist and slightly larger buffer. Also added recommended skills to get the most out of the links, plus switched in some shield maintenance bots, since there were room for them.

|name=Orca, Faster Hauling

* The MWD is pulsed to help the Orca align faster, giving it a 10 second align instead of 30-40 seconds. Fitting a single faction PDS instead of the two PDS2 will allow you to fit a damage control too.

* A much better idea is to use an Ancillary Current Router rig, leaving both low slots free for tank or cargohold expanders which provide much more expansion than cargohold optimization rigs.  With a single ACR and two cargohold rigs, grid will be tight; consider replacing the shield extender with an EM Ward Field II.

==Capital Industrial Ships==

The Rorqual is a capital version of the Orca, and is generally only seen in nullsec. As well as fielding similar bonuses to the Orca, it can carry a mining fleet to their destination and compress ore to make it easier to haul. Often, though, the Rorqual is seen as too risky to deploy in an asteroid belt and is set up within a POS shield instead; miners still get the bonuses and ore compression, and most pilots see this as a worthwhile tradeoff.  

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