Lord Fitz
Antares Fleet Yards
SMASH Alliance
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Posted - 2008.05.07 07:02:00 -
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 Originally by: Stan Leet
Whoa, that's messed up. It seems as though lowsec mining to make money is almost superfluous then...
Yep, 2 years ago Omber was the most valuable highsec ore, but Hedbergite, Hemorphite and Jaspet were all more valuable some 2x as much. Primarily this is due to the massive fall in the price of isogen and nocxium affecting those ores. The increase in the value of Trit actually has fairly little to do with it directly, it just makes them much more valuable rather than just slightly. Even 'bad' 0.0 (the majority of systems don't have crokite/bistot/ark/mercoxit) is less valuable than highsec.
The only 'fix' to this that doesn't take away the markets right to respond to price changes would be to seed ores in higher concentrated forms in lowsec/0.0 thus ensuring they are more valuable no matter what the price swings are. It's about time some reward was returned to the risk, so that people actually had a reason to take the risk, thus making lowsec a little less empty.
These aren't entirely up to date prices but here's my list:
Ore Values Per M3 / Per Jet Can.
(before taxes or refine loss)
Mercoxit 490.78 13,496,450.00
Arkanor 490.76 13,495,865.63
Bistot 445.44 12,249,612.89
Crokite 411.50 11,316,342.81
Gneiss 221.09 6,079,981.88
Dark Ochre 205.35 5,647,167.97
Spodumain 123.27 3,389,876.88
Plagioclaise 108.59 2,986,280.57
Veldspar 105.11 2,890,390.39
Hedbergite 102.88 2,829,200.00
Kernite 97.77 2,688,583.33
Scordite 95.43 2,624,309.31
Hemorphite 81.53 2,241,983.33
Pyroxeres 77.60 2,134,085.34
Omber 66.81 1,837,169.58
Jaspet 61.41 1,688,748.88
In some way this probably has alot to do with the drone regions, they have a huge excess of isogen and nocxium, and until recently had a huge deficiency in mexallon. The amount of minerals they produce is just staggering (that and drone missions in empire too). Also when mexallon goes up, kernite becomes worth mining, and as a side effect lots more isogen is mined, and so that goes down for an extra reason. |