I know not many people on here are really into mining...

[Gil]

but there's this great mining guide I found:

http://myeve.eve-online.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=305662

Some good info:

To get a 100% refine in empire you need the following:

Refining V
Refiniery Efficiency IV
Ore-Specific processing I (example: Veldspar Processing I)
A standing of 6.7 or higher with the corporation owning the station

We’ll start with the Retriever.
Good medium mining barge. It’s important to mention that even a mining cruiser (Scythe and Osprey) will outmine the small barge, so don’t lose your time with it. If you go for a barge, go directly for the retriever.

Skills you should have: Mining IV, Astrogeology IV, Mining Barge III

Using Strip Miners I, you will get the following yield:
540 * 1.20 * 1.20 * 1.09 * 1.05 (1x mining upgrade)= 847.58 ore per strip/cycle (180sec)
This means per minute, (847.58*2 strips)/3min(180sec) = 565.05 ore/minute

Let’s do the math for the Apoc and Domi.

Skills you should have: Mining IV, Astrogeology IV

Using Miners II, you will get the following yield:
60 * 1.20 * 1.20 = 86.4 ore per miner/cycle (60sec)


This means per minute:
For the Domi (86.4*6 lasers) = 518.4 ore/minute (596.16 with MU)
For the Apoc (86.4*8 lasers) =691.2 ore/minute (794.88 with MU)

Finally the Covetor

As mentioned before, the Covetor is a mining beast, notably because of its extra strip, but it comes to a lot of training. Let me convince you by showing you what the Covetor can do (the Hulk deserves its own section).

Skills you should have: Mining V, Astrogeology V, Mining Barge V

Note: I introduced Mining V for the first time. The ~6 days of training for the 5% is worth it, especially because later you will need it for T2 Strip Miners. Train it, you won’t regret it.

Using Strip I, you will get the following yield:
540 * 1.25 * 1.25 * 1.15 * 1.05 (1x Mining Upgrades) = 1018.828 ore per strip/cycle (180sec)

This means per minute, (1018.828 *3 strip miners)/3 = 1018.828 ore/minute

This is already a 180% increase compared to the Retriever, or 128% to the Apoc with 8 Miners II and 3 Upgrades. But this is just the beginning…

As soon as you have a Covetor, you will want to train for T2 Strips, which uses crystals. It’s about another 30 days of training before you will get to use T2 Crystals , but the bonus is absolutely worth it.

Base yield for strip miners II with:
T1 Crystal: (360*1.625)= 585
T2: Crystal: (360*1.75)= 630

It just goes on from there. He shows which skills and implants do what, how much drones help, and how to make more than 50 million isk per hour with 0.0 mining

 

[Gil]

He also links to an online ore calculator that shows how much of each mineral is inside each ore, and an ore map where you can search by system, region, or ore type to find out what's where.

 

[-=TTC=-Serpreme]

Read this like 6 times hehe