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Refining 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. | Refining 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. | ||
==Ore== | |||
Before you can refine your ore, you must place the ore in your hanger at a station with a refinery. The following table lists the batch size and the minerals that you would receive from a perfect refine (some of these numbers changed with the release of Tyrannis): | |||
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|+'''Ore Batch Size and Mineral Content''' | |||
! Ore !! Batch Size !! Tritanium !! Pyerite !! Mexallon !! Isogen !! Nocxium !! Megacyte !! Zydrine !! Morphite | |||
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| Veldspar || align="center"|333 || align="center"|1000 || || || || || || || | |||
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| Scordite || align="center"|333 || align="center"|833 || align="center"|416 || || || || || || | |||
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| Pyroxeres || align="center"|333 || align="center"|844 || align="center"|59 || align="center"|120 || || align="center"|11 || || || | |||
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| Plagioclase || align="center"|333 || align="center"|256 || align="center"|512 || align="center"|256 || || || || || | |||
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| Omber || align="center"|500 || align="center"|307 || align="center"|123 || || align="center"|307 || || || || | |||
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| Kernite || align="center"|400 || align="center"|386 || || align="center"|773 || align="center"|386 || || || || | |||
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| Jaspet || align="center"|500 || align="center"|259 || align="center"|437 || align="center"|518 || || align="center"|259 || || align="center"|8 || | |||
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| Hemorphite || align="center"|500 || align="center"|650 || align="center"|260 || align="center"|60 || align="center"|212 || align="center"|424 || || align="center"|28 || | |||
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| Hedbergite || align="center"|500 || || align="center"|290 || || align="center"|708 || align="center"|354 || || align="center"|32 || | |||
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| Gneiss || align="center"|400 || align="center"|171 || || align="center"|171 || align="center"|343 || || || align="center"|171 || | |||
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| Dark Ochre || align="center"|400 || align="center"|250 || || || || align="center"|500 || || align="center"|250 || | |||
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| Spodumain || align="center"|250 || align="center"|3190 || align="center"|410 || || || || align="center"|140 || || | |||
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| Crokite || align="center"|250 || align="center"|331 || || || || align="center"|331 || || align="center"|663 || | |||
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| Bistot || align="center"|200 || || align="center"|170 || || || || align="center"|170 || align="center"|341 || | |||
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| Arkonor || align="center"|250 || align="center"|300 || || || || || align="center"|333 || align="center"|166 || | |||
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| Mercoxit || align="center"|250 || || || || || || || || align="center"|530 | |||
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If you have less than the batch size, none of that ore will be refined. If you have more, only even batch sizes will be refined. For example, if you had 700 Veldspar, 666 would be refined into 2000 Tritanium, and you would have 34 Veldspar left over in your hanger. If you have the more dense ore (see [[Mining]]), you will get that percentage more minerals. For example, 333 Dense Veldspar will refine into 1100 Tritanium. | |||
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A pilot's ability to use a refinery is affected by three factors: '''equipment efficiency''', '''refining skills''' and the '''equipment use tax'''. | A pilot's ability to use a refinery is affected by three factors: '''equipment efficiency''', '''refining skills''' and the '''equipment use tax'''. | ||