Science & Industry

Because when you run a large fleet, moving said fleet the moment a system is scordite free hurts much more than actually just mining the damn veld.

As solominer its usually best to go for the more valuable ores and even focus on the higher yield rocks of the said ores.
Especially if you mine in the .5 .6 systems where you can find the better stuff more. If/when tritanium is in bigger demand then ofc Veldspar value starts to rise again.

I take it trit will go up when FW heats up at the end of July.

start of the summer holidays in uk and other places. A load of users suddenly spend more time on EVE, that means more PvP that mean more loses that means more demand for ships. Ship builders will demand more trit, the price of trit rises. Simple economics

that would depend highly on the ratios of players pvping and mining nad I'll admit that when I entered this game I was looking at combat instead of industry so I guess that people who aren't going to get very far into the game isn't going to go mining.

if you're a solo player, better off running lvl 4 missions. if you are in a group constantly, mine everything in site and move on to the next.

^^ this is what so many miners fail to grasp.

This is why Omber price per m3 was so low for so long and still got mined.

It is true that Veldspar and thus tritanium are very low isk per unit. but they are also the smallest m3 per unit.

currently according to cerlestes.de the least valuable ore is omber at 152 isk per m3, veldspar is at 154 and scordite at 193 being the top high sec ore.

Omber is generally the highest isk per unit of any high sec ore, however it is also the biggest m3 per unit. Mining pulls in ore at a specified m3/cycle. What this means to you miners out there, is isk per unit means nothing, it is isk per m3 that you need to pay attention too.

Currently omber is the highest isk per unit high sec ore, but it is the lowest isk per m3. veldspar is more valuable per m3 than omber and plagioclase. Scordite is still the most valuable high sec ore per m3, has been for some time, but with the ore composition changes we have seen the ore values shift back to a ratio closer to where they should be. As I said scordite is the most valuable high sec ore right now, but it is no longer near the top of the charts, in fact the only null sec ores it beats out are spodumain and Gneiss which used to be the bottom two ores for the whole game, now beating out all high sec ores ecept scordite and pyroxeres.

Low sec ores are three of the top 4 ores currently. H & H taking the top two spots followed by arknor and then jaspet.

In my opinion the current order were see in the values of ores is exactly where it should be. The prices may go up and down, but right now the mix is perfect to keep the value of ores in relation to the risk of obtaining them, aside from the fact that low sec ores appear in high sec ore exploration sites. but the volumes in those sites is to small to really have an impact.

To answer the op, the price difference between high sec ores is not that big. from omber to scordite it only ranges from 192 ism/m3 down to 152 ism/m3. While that may seem significant the time and efficiency you lose cherry picking eats up most of that difference. Veldspar is available in every belt in the highest volumes. what it lacks in value it makes up in volume. less wasted cycles, less moving to another belt. the most efficient way to mine in high sec is to strip everything. unless you are farming specific belts you will want to leave a partial cycles worth, but again that costs you time.

This is one of the biggest reasons, but if you want to step up your productivity a few notches then go out and mine the ore(s) that will get you better ISK/hour, get it refined, sell what you don't need (for any given manufacturing projects) and buy your Trit.

You might find this advantageous, you might not. Depends on the scale of your mining efforts and how long you can stare at the screen full of asteroids before your eyes bleed.

Window your EVE session and watch a movie or something while your lazors grind big rocks into little rocks.

Then you've always thought wrong.

Veld used to be an ok ore to mine. But it was never the best. Pyro, for example, always beat it.

It's always worth consulting a calculator to check.

I find this funny.
"I mine a specific belt and I don't stop until there is nothing left on the overview. "
Followed by: "Apparently there are still some miners out there who believe in the myth that you can "groom" an asteroid belt by only mining certain rocks."

No wonder you think it is a myth.

"I feel even sorrier for the ones who have a stopwatch and spreadsheet out for every rock trying to take it down to it's last few units. Why not just pop the rock?"
Because wasted cycles add up.

"It's much more profitable and less time consuming to just wipe out the entire belt."
No it isn't. You waste a lot of time moving to a new belt if you mine out the belts every day. You need to let them rest in order to make make the most of it.