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Since the Inferno 1.2 patch, the Procurer has become a very respectable mining ship due to its combination of decent yield, good ore hold, great tank, and low cost. The Procurer's ore hold is larger than a Covetor, smaller than a Retriever, but can still fit several cycles worth of ore. The Procurer's base mining yield is the lowest of all the ORE ships, but has been improved significantly to be on par with other ORE mining ships. The procurer's tank is beat only by its T2 varient, the Skiff. Using inexpensive modules, the procurer can reach enormous EHP while still maintaining a respectable yield and is thus the safest ship for mining in the lower-security (.6 or .5) areas of high security space.

notes=A buffer of 63,670 EHP against Antimatter makes suicide ganks against this ship extremely unprofitable.</li><li>Even at maximum skills, the Procurer is still a slow ship at 113 m/s. Use of a bounce bookmark that is on grid with the asteroid belt is recommended.</li><li>Two Hobgoblin I drones should be sufficient to dispatch all high-sec belt rats with ease. The EC-300 drones are added to provide further security against suicide ganking. If you have done nothing to make yourself a target, you can likely replace them with Mining Drone Is or further Hobgoblin Is.}} {{ShipFitting|

notes=A bait fit, to trap low sec pirates looking for an easy prey. </li><li>Make sure that you've got backup if you're jumped by multiple hostiles or by anything bigger than a destroyer.</li><li>Usage: Mine in a Low-Sec belt. Wait until someone willing to take the bait arrives on grid. Warn your Backup, that they should align to you. Align out & bump an asteroid or make yourself look foolish doing something else. Get redboxed. Call for Backup. Yellowbox back. Ideally your opponent should be in web range - If he isn't simply point him. Your backup should arrive and end up with a nice killmail</li><li>With all skills at V and before boosts, this ship has 67.3 K EHP, flies at 113 m/s and align in 9.4 s. The capacitor is stable.</li><li>Damage is 99 dps at 60 km with the Hogoblins II drones.}}

 

The Covetor has the greatest mining yield out of the T1 mining 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 mining trying to haul the ore back to your drop off point.

As Covetors are extremely easy to destroy in suicide gank attacks, using this ship without the possibility of storing it in an [[Orca]]'s Ship Maintenance Bay when attacked might be unwise.

notes=Due to the extreme ease of suicide ganking Covetors, this ship should only be used while in range of an Orca in order to use the Ship Maintenance Bay for protection.</li>The Cargohold Optimisation rigs of past fits are no longer beneficial to the Ore Hold (introduced in Inferno 1.2). Rig slots are now available for other purposes.}} {{ShipFitting|

notes=Due to the extreme ease of suicide ganking Covetors, this ship should only be used while in range of an Orca in order to use the Ship Maintenance Bay for protection.</li><li>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.</li><li>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.</li><li>The Cargohold Optimisation rigs of past fits are no longer beneficial to the Ore Hold (introduced in Inferno 1.2). Rig slots are now available for other purposes.}}

=== Retriever ===

The Retriever has the largest ore hold out of the T1 mining barges, but has a middling yield and only slightly more tank than the Covetor. If you are mining without support in higher-security areas (.7 and above), the Retriever is the ship of choice as its slightly lower yield is offset by vastly reducing the number of ore drop-off runs that need to be made.

notes=The Cargohold Optimisation rigs of past fits are no longer beneficial to the Ore Hold (introduced in Inferno 1.2). Rig slots are now available for other purposes.}} {{ShipFitting|

notes=The Medium Processor Overclocking Unit I rig may not be necessary if your fitting skills are good.</li><li>The Cargohold Optimisation rigs of past fits are no longer beneficial to the Ore Hold (introduced in Inferno 1.2). Rig slots are now available for other purposes.}}

| notes=~83s cycle time with 2 harvesters gives 1000m3 of ice every 41.5s.</li><li>This Retriever fit will allow for the fastest possible ice harvesting, exceeding that of the Procurer thanks to the third Ice Harvester Upgrade in the low slot. This fit also meets or exceeds the production of a Covetor unless your Mining Barge skill is IV or higher. Given the large ore bay, this fit is ideal for solo ice mining.</li><li>Relatively modest fitting skills are required; CPU management IV is sufficient. CPU rig is required even with CPU Management V unless 3% CPU implants are used. Defensive drones to taste and skill. Mining drones do not work with ice mining.}}

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notes=A Retriever in this fit achieves 17,679 EHP against Antimatter - sufficient to prevent podkilling by a single Catalyst pilot in .5 space.</li><li>However, it will still succumb to multiple gankers rather easily. Caution is thus advised.}}}}<noinclude>