CCP needs to stop torching everything that isn't PVP. The mineral prices have been too high for years. Its not crashing its returning to normal.

Example Before mining changes/additions:
1 Tristan cost about 300k in minerals to make in a station with a maxed out BP. In other words profit was IMPOSSIBLE or slim if you are lucky with the material prices.

That cost is down to 250k which means manufacturing is once again profitable for non cruiser t2 and t3s and above or really anything that doesn't require moon goo.

Skill up your reading compression, Payroll budget...that means I give out paychecks to those that mine....and you know what my principle of theory still works compared to most anybody else that attempts to argue with me.

also I said Mechanically speaking, take a t1 ship, add up the total numbers of the minerals (ie catalyst for example is tad over 66k individual units) and divide by the cost of the npc production fees. Your minerals are worth .66 ISK each no matter what they are. (true worth, not what the market says)
And btw you can use that for a formula to figure what your time worth mining is.
But Im done teaching here, you figure out how i can make 60 Billion+ ISK in profits per month with mining and production of t1 stuff without trying. (in highsec only)
Trust me, when you finally do then you will get it. And will also truly understand the meaning of oportunity costs not the failed terminology that almost all of EvE and every non-indy player spews around here.

Bad econ troll is bad...