Science & Industry

You can create courier contracts using the Contract App in the business section of your Neocom and you can demand collateral to protect against theft of your cargo.

Prices will depend on the number of jumps and the amount of collateral demanded. You can checkout existing contracts placed by others to get a feel for the market.

Moving small amounts of Ore by courier contract is unlikely to be economical. Probably better to sell to local buy orders or buy a Miasmos and haul it yourself.

here is three scenarios.

Your mine in your procurer - haul the ore back to the satation when full. Accumulate the ore until you want it moved. You set up a public contract. Specify your reward + your collateral (what you will receive if the contract is not completed) and you wait for the contract to be fulfilled.

Your mine in your procurer. You have managed to track down someone you trust to continuely haul for you whilst you mean. You fleet up as what you jettison will allow him or her to loot without being flagged as suspect. he or she hauls the ore to the station for you and eventually to a trade hub for sale. How you work out the payments I dont know. i would say a 50/50 split is fair since the hauler is putting in just as much work as you are.

Your join a mining corp or industrial focused corp as these tend to have dedicated ore buy back schemes and haulers who will generaly haul for free since you are in corp.

This. I don't think you're going to find anyone who wants to haul for one miner for a fee.

Otherwise, find a system where you feel safe using a Retriever so you don't have to go to station so often. An alt for one miner is less efficient than two miners hauling their own ore.

What you really want to find is an Orca boost to increase your yield/isk.

Welcome to Eve.

A second account isn't an option for me. I figure that if someone wants to buy it from me as i mine it at a steep discount like 40-50% and let them do whatever thy like with it. Fleet up, they pay, I jettison the ore. Simple and no way for either of us to get screwed.

Mining already isn't the most exciting occupation at the best of times. Watching another person mine to haul a load of ore to station every hour for 40-50% of mining profits is even worse. Noone right in his mind would volunteer for such a job. At least no honest person would. Just drop the ore in a station in your mining system whenever the ore hold is full. This will be much more profitable then forfeiting half your profits.

I congratulate you to the selection of your mining barge. You made the wise decision to prefer safety over yield or volume. Do not counteract this by letting someone else handle your ore.

Joining a mining corporation seems like the better idea. Since you'll get boosts, services, hauling, better reprocessing yield etc..

Yehala.

40/50% is too steep... 15% below Jita would be acceptable and common in my experience, while getting the benefit of boosts and not having to worry about hauling the ore back to station. Good luck, and welcome to eve!

Slade Revan - You will first need to understand that CODE is hunting ships like yours in High Sector. Find a fitting guide and fit it to withstand a two Catalyst or Thrasher gank attack.

Next follow the "Yellow Particle Dust Trail" into the Null once you have skilled up enough points.

Dependant on location and presuming you don't want to or can't set up a second account I would suggest doing 'jet-can' mining ie just jettison your ore hold once it is full. Fill a couple of 'jet-cans' then reship to the Gallente hauler with the ore hold (The name escapes me at present.) and collect the ore.

Dependant on location this system still works for miners.