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Mercoxit Mining
By: udie soon Date: May 12, 2012, 10:30 am
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Hi...
For the last few weeks i have been looking high and low for a
better way to make isk and i think Mercoxit mining may be the
the key.
The following taken from EVE GUIDES
Pre-RMR, Mercoxit was considered to be the most valuable ore
as it is the only asteroid which refines into Morphite. Not only
for that, but also because you absolutely need mining crystals
to harvest it, only true miners with good skills can mine it.
Factor on top of that Mercoxit's important volume, which made
the task of getting any high quantities a bitch, all those
factors gave it a premium price. The Skiff solved that last
problem, so well in fact, that the morphite price have sunken to
the bottom of the ocean with the Titanic over the last couple of
months. Mind you, it is still a lucrative business, but not as
much as before, and players who left before RMR and are coming
back now will probably ask themselves, "Holy Mother of
Destruction, what did you do to my ISK generating machine"?
Skills you will need: Deep Core Mining 2
Training Deep Core Mining beyond level 2 is wasted time, since
the toxic and dangerous cloud that MIGHT erupt when mining
Mercoxit (happened to me once in my life) has a range of 5KM
only, and since your lasers have a range of 15km, you mind
telling me what the hell you're doing so close ? Thought so...
There really is no point mining Mercoxit in anything else than a
Skiff, but this guide wouldn't be truly complete if you did not
have all the information. There are two modules that allows you
to mine Mercoxit
While MDCM2 can be used with any mining crystals, and be fitted
on any ship, they are not as powerful as MDCSM2, which is a
special kind of strip miner used for Mercoxit mining. The
regular Modulated Strip Miner II cannot use Mercoxit crystals.
While the MDCSM2 can use any crystals, since its base yield is
110 lower than the MSM2 (250 vs 360), there would be no point.
What is particulary nice about the Skiff, is that it gets a 60%
bonus to Mercoxit mining yield per level. What this
translates into in a ISK/hour ratio will be covered at the end
of this section (and again in section 12), however you may have
already guessed that with a 300% bonus at Exhumer 5, it'll be a
nice one... especially for such a cheap ship.
For the sake of uberness comparison, I'll assume you are a maxed
out Hulk pilot already:
250 * 1.25 * 1.25 * 1.15 * 1.15 * 4 * 1.05 * 1.375 * 1.05^2 =
3289.17 m3/cycle
Mercoxit has a volume of 40m3, so 3289.17/40 = 82.229 82 units
of Mercoxit per cycle
A Skiff fits one MDCSM2, so you'd mine around 1640 units of
Mercoxit per hour. (20 cycles, like the other strip miners)

So as you can see from above we can make some nice isk and we
dont need to be in fleets as this can be done solo in worm hole
space and null sec (using wormhole gate to jump in and out of
null sec)
I will be trying this over the week and get back to you
Udie
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