EVE New Citizens Q&A

Ok I need some experts to really chime in on this for me because its really confusing!!!

Obviously im a newb.

I got my scanning gear on and went into a wormhole and found a grav site there with the intent on mining it. i bm the warp entrance which was, conviently in Dodixie, the warp exit and my newly discovered grav site. the plan was to bring my venture there and get some rare ore... Well went through all that and got a full load of Bistot. But when i brought it back to be sold it was no much more or even equal to high sec ore??????!!!! what gives whats the point of mining in wormhole or even rare ores with high risk when there is no payout?

Am i missing something here?
Does anyone here Wormhole Grav site mine? If so what am i doing wrong?

thanks alot...(first post)

Bistot is bistot, everywhere.

As far as the prices of various ores, it's an unfortunate result of the player-driven economy. You can either check the market before starting, or check a website such as Cerlestes to see which ores are worth it.

The price of the high-sec ores went up a while ago, because CCP nerfed junk mission drops. A lot of the low-end minerals came from mission-runners recycling all the junk modules they were getting, rather than from actual high-sec miners. On top of that, there were quite a few hulkaggeddons (people hunting mining ships for lolz and kills), and CCP re-vamped all the mining barges.

Null-sec miners go for the high-end ores usually, resulting in megacyte and zydrine minerals. And empire players mine the low-end stuff, but mining is boring and obviously it hasn't picked up enough to drop prices drastically, to the point where the high-end ores are clearly much better than the empire ores.

Right now, no, and especially not in wormhole space.

Empire asteroid belts are usually mined out, you'll have trouble finding asteroids, but they exist here and there. You can also scan for gravimetric sites in Empire space and get some ore that way.

yeah i never had much of a problem finding ore was just trying to get some rare stuff to sell maximize my time/profit

The low/null/whole ores are often lower in value than simple Veldspar, Scordite, Tritanium, etc. Obviously there is something wrong with this, but it is what it is. I could see how a little wormhole ninja mining could be fun, and to some extent may be worthwhile if you are using the minerals for your own production, but it isn't worth it from a market value perspective.