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=== Mining ships ===

The best option for a new miner is to train into the [[Venture]], a dedicated mining frigate (before the [[Eve_Online_Expansions#Retribution|Retribution expansion]], each race had its own mining frigate, but this is no longer the case). The Venture and the necessary skillbook ({{sk|Mining Frigate}}) are given out for free by the Industrial Career agents, and training the necessary skills takes only a few minutes. The Venture is a mini mining barge with a substantial ore hold (which minimises travel to stations to unload ore), very good mining yield and built-in warp core stabilisation (which makes it easier to escape from hostile ships).

The best option for a new miner is to train into the [[Venture]], a dedicated mining frigate (before the [[Eve_Online_Expansions#Retribution|Retribution expansion]], each race had its own mining frigate, but this is no longer the case). The Venture and the necessary skillbook ({{sk|Mining Frigate}}) are given out for free by the Industrial Career agents, and training the necessary skills takes only a few minutes. The Venture is a mini mining barge with a substantial ore hold (which minimises travel to stations to unload ore), very good [[Mining Yield|mining yield]] and built-in warp core stabilisation (which makes it easier to escape from hostile ships).

After a week's training, a budding miner should have the necessary skills to fly a mining barge, which have more than double the mining yield of a Venture, as well as even larger ore holds and/or a stronger tank. These ships are also more expensive (15-40M ISK, plus modules), but given that a Venture can mine about 500-700k ISK worth of ore per full cargohold, this money is soon earned. There are three different mining barges, each with a different focus (see table below).

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The last word in mining ships are the exhumers (Tech II variants of the mining barges). These ships require many more skills to fly, and are even more expensive, but have even greater mining yield, cargohold space and/or [[tank]] than the mining barges.

Before the Retribution expansions, players often used cruisers or battleships as mining ships, but these ships are no longer competitive with mining barges and exhumers.

=== Haulers and support ships ===

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 === Mining ships ===
-The best option for a new miner is to train into the [[Venture]], a dedicated mining frigate (before the [[Eve_Online_Expansions#Retribution|Retribution expansion]], each race had its own mining frigate, but this is no longer the case). The Venture and the necessary skillbook ({{sk|Mining Frigate}}) are given out for free by the Industrial Career agents, and training the necessary skills takes only a few minutes. The Venture is a mini mining barge with a substantial ore hold (which minimises travel to stations to unload ore), very good mining yield and built-in warp core stabilisation (which makes it easier to escape from hostile ships).
+The best option for a new miner is to train into the [[Venture]], a dedicated mining frigate (before the [[Eve_Online_Expansions#Retribution|Retribution expansion]], each race had its own mining frigate, but this is no longer the case). The Venture and the necessary skillbook ({{sk|Mining Frigate}}) are given out for free by the Industrial Career agents, and training the necessary skills takes only a few minutes. The Venture is a mini mining barge with a substantial ore hold (which minimises travel to stations to unload ore), very good [[Mining Yield|mining yield]] and built-in warp core stabilisation (which makes it easier to escape from hostile ships).
 After a week's training, a budding miner should have the necessary skills to fly a mining barge, which have more than double the mining yield of a Venture, as well as even larger ore holds and/or a stronger tank. These ships are also more expensive (15-40M ISK, plus modules), but given that a Venture can mine about 500-700k ISK worth of ore per full cargohold, this money is soon earned. There are three different mining barges, each with a different focus (see table below).
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 The last word in mining ships are the exhumers (Tech II variants of the mining barges). These ships require many more skills to fly, and are even more expensive, but have even greater mining yield, cargohold space and/or [[tank]] than the mining barges.
 Before the Retribution expansions, players often used cruisers or battleships as mining ships, but these ships are no longer competitive with mining barges and exhumers.
 === Haulers and support ships ===