Minerals

Minerals are a type of material in EVE Online that is obtained by Reprocessing ore or, additionally, by reprocessing spare equipment, and used in Manufacturing of nearly all items.

There are 8 base minerals: Tritanium, Pyerite, Mexallon, Isogen, Nocxium, Zydrine, Megacyte, Morphite.

For the minerals that are reprocessed from Moon Ore see Moon mining#Moon Ore Refining.

Reprocessing yield

See also: Asteroids and ore

The following tables list the mineral content (gross yield) of each ore type and the location(s) where they can be found. Compressed and uncompressed ores require 100 units to reprocess, the obsolete batch compressed ore requires 1 unit that represents a batch of 100. +5%/+10% ore varieties are not included in the tables.

Note that actual yield (net, or less than the gross yield) will depend on reprocessing equipment, player skills, level of reprocessing implant (if any), and corporation standings if using an NPC station.

Cells highlighted in green denote that the ore is the best source of that mineral per m3.

The first table shows reprocessing value of 100 units of each ore.

Ore reprocessing amounts (per batch)

Ore Type	m3	Compressed m3	Trit	Pye	Mex	Iso	Nocx	Zyd	Mega	Morph	Relevant Skill
Veldspar	0.1	0.01	400								Simple
Scordite	0.15	0.01	150	90							Simple
Pyroxeres	0.3	0.01		90	30						Simple
Plagioclase	0.35	0.01	175		70						Simple
Omber	0.6	0.01		90		75					Coherent
Kernite	1.2	0.01			60	120					Coherent
Jaspet	2	0.02			150		50				Coherent
Hemorphite	3	0.03				240	90				Coherent
Hedbergite	3	0.03		450			120				Coherent
Dark Ochre	8	0.08			1360	1200	320				Variegated
Gneiss	5	0.05		2000	1500	800					Variegated
Crokite	16	0.16		800	2000		800				Variegated
Bistot	16	0.16		3200	1200			160			Complex
Arkonor	16	0.16		3200	1200				120		Complex
Mercoxit	40	0.4								140	Mercoxit
Spodumain	16	0.16	48000			1000	160	80	40		Complex
Bezdnacine	16	-	40000			4800			128		Abyssal
Rakovene	16	-	40000			3200		200			Abyssal
Talassonite	16	-	40000				960		32		Abyssal

The second table shows the ore reprocessing values, normalized to 1 m3 of ore.

Ore reprocessing amounts (per m3)

Ore Type	m3/batch	Trit	Pye	Mex	Iso	Nocx	Zyd	Mega	Morph
Veldspar	10	40
Scordite	15	10	6
Pyroxeres	30		3	1
Plagioclase	35	5		2
Omber	60		1.5		1.25
Kernite	120			0.5	1
Jaspet	200			0.75		0.25
Hemorphite	300				0.8	0.3
Hedbergite	300		1.5			0.4
Dark Ochre	800			1.7	1.5	0.4
Gneiss	500		4	3	1.6
Crokite	1600		0.5	1.25		0.5
Bistot	1600		2	0.75			0.1
Arkonor	1600		2	0.75				0.075
Mercoxit	4000								0.035
Spodumain	1600	30			0.625	0.1	0.05	0.025
Bezdnacine	1600	25			3			0.8
Rakovene	1600	25			0.6		0.125
Talassonite	1600	25				0.6		0.02