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Low value Moon Goo
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Calorn Marthor
Standard Fuel Company
#1 - 2012-04-04 11:04:48 UTC
Hey there...

I am just thinking about starting moon mining.
Now my Question:

The most common Moon Materials like Hydrocarbons and Atmospheric Gases have prices < 200 ISK.
A moon harvester will produce like 20kISK per hour harvesting these, but the fuel for a even a small POS is >100kISK.

How are these materials ever produced profitable?

And if that is not possible, where do they come from?
There can't be that many people around who forget to factor in fuel costs...
mechtech
Ice Liberation Army
#2 - 2012-04-04 11:30:13 UTC
Each moon mineral can only have one corresponding harvesting array, so the low value materials are mined alongside a more valuable counterpart if there is excess capacity for more arrays on the POS.
Malcanis
Vanishing Point.
The Initiative.
#3 - 2012-04-04 11:54:35 UTC
Also if you're putting a POS up for some other reason, you might as well slap a harvester in there too.

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Taedrin
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2012-04-04 13:14:11 UTC
The true value behind low value moon goo is that it's one less silo that you have to fill/empty and less hauling when running reactions.

Aside from that, you *NEVER* anchor a POS solely to mine most moon minerals - it just isn't profitable unless you can get your hands on a high value moon such as Neodymium, Dysprosium or Technetium.
Bugsy VanHalen
Society of lost Souls
#5 - 2012-04-04 14:21:27 UTC
only way to make it work is incorporating it into a reaction POS. You can make money of buying all base materials and reacting them. by mining the low value moon goo at your reaction POS rather than buying it does give your profits a little boost and reduces the amount of materials you need to ship in.
I say it is worth it just for the reduced logistics shipping in supplies. The cost savings is minimal as they are so cheap.
Keep in mind that in a reaction POS a harvesting array does not need to feed into a silo but just a coupling array before the reactor. As long as you keep the other supplies topped up it will never fill. and if your reactions do stop you are only losing 20,000 isk per hour of material that would just be surplus you would need to haul out if it went into a silo.
This would be well worth it for a valuable material but not for the low ends.

Other option is as others have said. If you need a POS in the area anyway might as well throw in a harvesting array if you have the extra grid/CPU.