Ore

Ore is a collective term for all commodities that can be mined. All you need to mine ore is a mining laser and an asteroid or debris field that drops ore, but this way of mining is costly in terms of time. If you want to mine efficiently you need to have a mining ship, a special IFF and a matching ID, and astroid field that drops sufficiently large amounts of ore per asteroid. Furthermore you'll need the aforementioned mining turrets, which are rather weak in combat (see also Mineable Commodities). The problem with ore is that you'll always need a lot of time or another skilled player to mine for you. Normally these miners are rare to find and not cheap. They usually want about 25% from the sell price per unit at the best sale point. These places are often far away, or on the other side of a war zone, like the Taus, so the trader hauling the ore will often have quite a bit of work to do to get the last 75% out of that deal.

Ore is one of the most profitable commodities for lawful traders to carry. Normal sale prices are about 10000 credits per unit, they only take up one unit of cargo space, and no house currently restricts the trade of ore. This adds up to make ore one of the most interesting commodities for traders to carry.

Name	Main Mining Place	Main Miners	Best sell in Liberty	Best sell in Bretonia	Best sell in Kusari	Best sell in Rheinland	Best sell in Gallia
Gold Ore	Dublin/Bretonia	IMG/BMM	Planet Pittsburgh $8,039	Waterloo Station $839	Roppongi Station $9,899	Planet New Berlin $9,859	unknown
Cobalt Ore	Omega 7	Daumann	Rochester Base $5,968	Scarborough Station $6,209	Narita Outpost $9,390	Dortmund Station $1,765	unknown
Silver Ore	Omega 7/Humboldt**	Kruger	Planet California Minor $3,720	Canterbury Station $4,590	Narita Outpost $9,241	Planet New Berlin $1,754	unknown
Platinum Ore	Alberta/Liberty	DSE	Planet Pittsburgh $2,720	Waterloo Station $9,199	Roppongi Station $2,400	Planet New Berlin $9,850	unknown
Copper Ore	Omega 7	IMG	Rochester Base $5,962	Scarborough Station $6,412	Narita Outpost $9,185	Planet Nuremberg $2,970	unknown
Niobium Ore	Leeds/Ex-Bretonia*/Tau 23	IMG/BMM/GMS	Rochester Base $4,690	Waterloo Station $3,888	Narita Outpost $4,320	Planet New Berlin	unknown
Helium-3	Okinawa/Kusari	GMG	Planet Pittsburgh $8,871	Southampton Shipyard $8,989	Osaka Storage Facility $1,304	Mannheim Station $4,435	unknown
Uncut Diamonds	Omega 11	Kruger/Daumann	Newark Station $9,989	Waterloo Station $10,614	Roppongi Station $10,885	The Ring $2,430	unknown
Aluminium Ore	Koeln/Rheinland	Daumann	Rochester Base $4,657	Southampton Shipyard $10,638	Narita Outpost $4,370	The Ring $1,080
Beryllium Ore	Cambridge	BMM	Planet Pittsburgh $7,772	Scarborough Station $1,827	Narita Outpost	Dortmund Station $8,222	unknown
Premium Scrap	Texas/Liberty/Bering/Hudson	Junkers/ALG	none	Aland Shipyard (Omega 3)****	Yokohama Shipyard $7,500	none	unknown
Raw Hydrocarbons	Manchester/Bretonia/Ile-de-France***/Gallia	BMM/GMS	Planet Pittsburgh $9,177	Southampton Shipyard $2,100	Narita Outpost $1,820	Planet Nuremberg $8,008	unknown

* The system of Leeds is an Bretonian system that was recently lost to the Kingdom of Gallia. Before that BMM was the main mining faction in Leeds. Gallic Metal Service has largely taken over the BMM's operations in the system after it was occupied by the Gallic Royal Navy.

** Humboldt is an "unlawful" system under Liberty Rogue control without any significant lawful mining operations.

*** The mining place for Raw Hydrocarbons in Ile-de-France is much better than the one in Manchester, but the distance between these systems is very big and especially Gallic lawful traders often use it, but they have got many problems.

**** Omega-3 is not really a Bretonian system, but it is part of Bretonia's zone of influence and even settled by Bretonians. All other stations in Bretonia only give $250 per unit.