Ore & Minerals & Ma'adim

[Jarkko]

So, does that mean I did the contract as I am supposed to do? Was there too little or too much stuff there?

[Gunnarr]

I suppose you did the contract right, as 'stuff' showed up in the corp's contract screen. It's not really a matter of too much or too little stuff, but more of a case of the slacker in the corner office not setting prices yet for some of the items.

[Macrune]

Ive started using these for my calculations.

This page to see what the current approx prices are and the trends http://cerlestes.de/eve/oretable/

and this into which i input the prices to see what the current best ore to mine (price per m3 mined). http://eve.grismar.net/ore/full.php

So far its done me proud and ive made a tidy profit    . Im currently doing a 50 - 50 split in what i give to the corp and what i sell main stream. As i progress and get into a better mining setup that will swing more towards the corp getting most if not all.

[Mangala]

So, does that mean I did the contract as I am supposed to do? Was there too little or too much stuff there?

Was done right Swuul - was just me forgetting drone poo and the last few bits of salvage

[Warcold]

http://cerlestes.de/eve/oretable/

tricky that the graphs are backwards 

[Rubino]

I've put a few test buy orders up for corp at the MN Office station around the Corp Mineral Purchase Programme (MPP).

The buy order range is the station (to avoid hauling) and the price is determined by the mineral price programme (http://handsofjustice.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=530.0).
The initial buy order of Trit was a little (0.17 isk/pu) above that in the programme - just to get a little ahead of the game wrt trit as it's something we chew through quickly.

The general idea is two-fold:

• It allows immediate payout to members & eases the admin overhead
• It should stimulate the corps stock of minerals in the short-term

So far the coverage of minerals is pretty small - but I'll be expanding it a little more as part of the test.
While I don't have great trade skills - they're ok (Accounting [4], Broker Relations [3], Margin Trading [3], Retail [3]) - but more than happy to hand it over should the trials show it to prove worthwhile.

[peo]

Seems the buy order is already filled

[Rubino]

Aye  

Did a quick test this evening - mining in a hulk and dropping into the Rorqual.
In 20 mins I generated 0.5M units of Veld (mix of Veld & concentrated Veld) - which multiplies up into 1.5m ore units/hour for a single hulk.

[Warcold]

= 4.5M trit ~ 15+ M isk

nice 

[Rubino]

*grins*
Thinking just about the minerals for corp - not the income (as you can tell from my choice of veld).
9m trit for 2 hours grunt isn't bad

[Rubino]

Ok - the POS is pretty much setup for construction now.
We're short on some of the minerals however - the most urgent being Zydrine (40k) and Megacyte (16k).

We are however in a region with Arkonor, Crokite, Bistot and Spodumain
According to my calculations - we need 16k of Crokite & 13k of Arkonor to obtain the volumes above.

Now ideally we can get this from a hidden belt - but that requires chance and it isn't a sure steady supply.
The nearest unrestricted system with crokite is 6/7 jumps away - and there are 2 restricted systems (2 [D-Q04X] and 3 [V6-NY1] jumps respectively) that have it.
I'll try to grab a SOT diplomat to see if I can arrange mining rights in those systems.

Now the volumes of Crokite & Arkonor are pretty large - so a standard hulk will only be able to hold 500 ore units and we would therefore need either the Rorqual or a maxed hauler.
Using a hauler is possible but introduces extra risk (due to the manual jumping needed) - the Rorqual can single jump between the POS system/office and the remote systems.
The unrestricted systems further out would need to be checked to see if they are cyno-jammed.
Otherwise we may need to see about setting up a small POS in WMH-SO or Y-2ANO.  Jumping in the Rorqual without having a POS would be risky.

Update: Contacted one of the diplomats in SOT about mining in the Minotaur constellation (http://evemaps.dotlan.net/map/Fountain/Minotaur) and he's passed it up the food chain and will contact me when he has an answer.
I'll offer them a % of what's mined (I was thinking around 10%) in return for the rights to mine there.

[Rubino]

I've chatted with the SOT diplo but it's not proving fruitful at the mo - I've since contacted the diplo at PL to see if I can cut through the red tape but I'm not holding my breath.
As such I've scouted the WMH system which should allow cap jumps into/out-of and am considering anchoring a small POS with a hanger for storage.  This will allow a safe operating base for mining Crok, Ark & Ochre in the system and those surrounding it.

[Warcold]

wont 1) mining huge ammounts of veld, 2) selling half and 3) using the income to buy other mins be (part of) a solution too?
i know not much more than crap about industry logistics, so shoot me if i talk nonsense

[peo]

wont 1) mining huge ammounts of veld, 2) selling half and 3) using the income to buy other mins be (part of) a solution too?
i know not much more than crap about industry logistics, so shoot me if i talk nonsense

The problem is moving the stuff.

[Mangala]

Hows the local market for buying oremins? anyone out there stupid enough to sell to us