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The Complete Miner s Guide by Halada
Prologue
An Introduction to Mining
News & Updates
Table of Contents
Mining 101
1.1 Asteroid Belts & Ores
1.2 Minerals
1.2.1 What Should I Mine Then?
1.3 The Beginning of a Miner's Career
1.3.1 Your First Ship
1.3.2 The Basic Mining Techniques
1.3.3 Industrial Ships
1.3.4 Joining a Corp
1.3.5 Selling your Ore
1.3.6 Your First Cruiser
1.4 The Different Mining Lasers
2. Refining
2.1 Calculating your Yield - cont...
2.2 Refining Implants
2.3 From Refining Yield to Reality
3. The Math System
3.1 Skill System
3.2 Cycles
3.2.1 Cycles and yield interaction
3.2.2 From Yield to Ore
4. Mining Barge or Battleship?
4.1 The Battleship Way
4.1.1 The Apocalypse
4.1.2 The Rokh
4.2 The Barge Way
4.2.1 The Retriever
4.2.2 The Covetor
5. Crystals - cont...
5.1 How do I Read my Yield ?
6. Achieving perfection
6.1 The Mindlink isn't broken
6.2 Upgrades for the riches
7. The Mighty Hulk
7.1 The Mighty Hulk's Tank
7.2 Payback time
8. Drones
8.1 What Drones Do For You
8.2 Minimizing the traveling time factor effect
9. Ice Mining
9.1 Figuring your Cycle Time
9.2 The Hulk or Covetor for Ice Mining ?
10. Mercoxit Mining
10.1 Is Mercoxit mining still hot?
11. Mining Foreman Links Gang Mods
11.1 Mining Foreman Link Ice Harvesting
11.2 Mining Foreman Link Laser Optimization
11.3 Making them work
12. Rigs
13. Show me the money
13.1 Ore Values
13.2 Ice Values
13.3 And the winner is...
13.3.1 Drones help
13.4 The Miner's Uberness
14. The Rorqual Big Mama ORE - Contd ....14.1 The Industrial Core..
14.2 Capital Tractor Beam
14.3 Clone VAT Bay
14.4 Fitting the Rorqual
14.5 Strategies
14.6 Setting up a remote mining camp
14.7 Logistics use
15. The role of carriers
16. Exploration and Gas Cloud Mining
17. Ship Setups
18. Links
Conclusion
Credits and thanks