What to Mine

Since mining is sometimes boring and I’m not always playing some other video game or doing homework, I made a very elaborate spreadsheet in Excel that calculates the ISK per m3 of asteroid contents based off of new regional averages (using densities, batch amounts, and minerals yielded. I’m sure its not perfectly accurate due to Eve’s tendency to round, but it definitely gives a decent idea of what to mine. I just added Jaspet and Hemorphite recently due to my curiousity of the risk of mining low security.

I didn’t mention this before on the blog but I have recorded this about a week ago as well. The only noteworthy change is the dropping price of Pyerite resulting in Dense Veldspar being more profitable than Condensed Scordite, Concentrated Veldspar is better than Scordite, and both Veldspar and Scordite are better than Viscious Pyroxeres now. I would also like to add that Tritanium rose in price and the more expensive ones like Isogen and Mexallon decreased… something to think about in the future or if you are stockpiling

Additionally I’d like to add that these prices may fluctuate day to day (or within the same day) and that my regional average my differ than yours. Nor does this data include 0.0 mining.

Asteroid ISK/m3

Fiery Kernite	109.67
Rich Plagioclase	108.21
Luminous Kernite	104.65
Azure Plagioclase	103.26
Glazed Hermorphite	100.15
Kernite	99.68
Plagioclase	98.27
Massive Scordite	97.84
Dense Veldspar	96.79
Vivid Hermophite	94.50
Condensed Scordite	93.41
Concentrated Veldspar	92.39
Hemorphite	90.73
Scordite	88.92
Veldspar	87.99
Viscious Pyroxeres	86.12
Solid Pyroxeres	81.79
Pyroxeres	77.46
Pristine Jaspet	75.37
Pure Jaspet	70.24
Golden Omber	69.19
Jaspet	67.98
Silvery Omber	65.92
Omber	62.85

As you can see, low security (or rare) asteroids don’t necessarily yield more profit. Don’t be fooled by the price of Zydrine… it isn’t actually worth it at this point in time. Also note that Veldspar is abundant, found almost everywhere, and easily refined even for beginners. I’ll try to come up with some comparison with Ice and minerals some other time.

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