Science & Industry

Pyroxeres, mostly found in Ammar space in systems at or below 0.8 security status.

The best ores tend to be the ones with the most yield of the most in-demand mineral. At the moment its Pyroxeres because of the Nocxium and mexallon yield.

Surprisingly enough Veldspar apears to be in 2nd place for highest yield price (189.18/m3) with Pyroxeres in the lead (224.51/m3) and kernite in 3rd place (170.28/m3). The last few weeks Kernite was the second best but with Trit going up in value I guess it was knocked down to 3rd.

Here's a calc someone posted in the science & industry section, it has the mineral yields per batch as well as the price per unit / m3 as well as the current prices at the top for minerals.

http://www.fuzzwork.co.uk/ore/

I use this chart, you can sort it by the ISK column.
http://ore.cerlestes.de/index.html#site:ore

Refining and Selling should be taken into consideration in two aspects.

Refining a certain ore is one thing, you need to know what ore you want to sell to get the skills for first. Great and dandy.

Selling, how much do you have to sell? How are you going to get it to the buying station? How far is the buying station? Hauling time vs mining and selling at a lower price?

For a quick buck you shouldn't rely on the prices that are given at main trading hubs if you're out in the middle of no where. Look at your local region prices and figure out what you would make the quickest and easiest buck off of.


Good luck :)

Calculate in that you can travel with the freighter afk to markets while you have a life, so that time is not deducted from production.

It all depends on your skills, setup, standings, and location.

The mining tab in the program in my sig allows you to take all that into account.

It all depends on your local market, (since you're new I take it you don't have the money to haul) but in certain places Trit has gone up past 6 ISK, so Veldspar is always a good choice just because of how common it is and the large amount of Trit it gives. But if you can mine in a system with a large amount of Pyrox, even better.

Pyroxeres as some have already said. Also plagiocase if you find yourself in Caldari space. And also, as a recommendation, invest in the Marketing skill, at least to level 3. That will let you sell it to 10 systems out. And saves you travel time getting to the places with the best prices. As some NPC's say in another MMO, "Time is money friend!"

Bear in mind also that I am fairly new to this game and am learning some of this stuff through trial and error and with the help of my corporation buddies. I am thinking today after I get home from work I will try mining a bunch of veldspar, refining it to tritanium and selling that, while I wait for my Caldari Cruiser training to finish. The reason is that veldspar ore per item is roughly the same price as the tritanium per unit and since I'll have more tritanium than veldspar, it ought to work. That's the theory anyway.

Pyroxeres is by far the most isk/m3 BUT there is a major problem with it, it yields a ton of Tritanium! My 2 Hulks fill up my Orca with REFINED Pyroxeres minerals (mostly Trit) in only a few hours. (I curently must send the Orca on trade runs) It takes me almost 24 hours to refine enough Kernite to fill my Orca with refined Kernite minerals. The isk/m3 calculators can be very deceptive in this regard. If the trade runs don't bother you then Veldspar is probably the simplest solution as it is abundant and in many systems Veldspar rocks are ignored.

TLDR:
1. Pyroxeres - most valuable (and can be harder to find BC of higher isk/m3) but more hauling refined minerals.
2. Veldspar - average value but abundant and lots of hauling refined minerals.
3. Plagioclase -average value but considerably less hauling refined minerals.
4. Kernite - average value but minimal hauling refined minerals.
5. Scordite sucks.
6. Omber sucks even more.

EDIT: Still love Pyrox, but when I mine it i usually dump the Tritanium at the station close to where I mine at lower than market values (just to 'move' it) and stock up on the more valuable Nocxium to haul myself to a more profitable trade hub.

Go to the ingame channel 'Exploration' and offer to buy bookmarks to gravimetric sites. In high-sec you can find Hemorphite, Hedbergite and Jaspet in scanning-sites, all of which considerably better then Pyroxeres.

If you pay well enough (shouldn't be a problem since you get nice a profit-margin over high-sec belt ores), the explorers will likely throw more bookmarks at you then you can mine out.