Higher Coalition

 Hi...
  For the last few weeks i have been looking high and low for a better way to make isk and i think Mercoxit mining may be the the key.
    The following taken from EVE GUIDES

    Pre-RMR, Mercoxit was considered to be the most valuable ore as it is the only asteroid which refines into Morphite. Not only for that, but also because you absolutely need mining crystals to harvest it, only true miners with good skills can mine it. Factor on top of that Mercoxit's important volume, which made the task of getting any high quantities a ****, all those factors gave it a premium price. The Skiff solved that last problem, so well in fact, that the morphite price have sunken to the bottom of the ocean with the Titanic over the last couple of months. Mind you, it is still a lucrative business, but not as much as before, and players who left before RMR and are coming back now will probably ask themselves, "Holy Mother of Destruction, what did you do to my ISK generating machine"?

Skills you will need: Deep Core Mining 2
Training Deep Core Mining beyond level 2 is wasted time, since the toxic and dangerous cloud that MIGHT erupt when mining Mercoxit (happened to me once in my life) has a range of 5KM only, and since your lasers have a range of 15km, you mind telling me what the hell you're doing so close ? Thought so...

There really is no point mining Mercoxit in anything else than a Skiff, but this guide wouldn't be truly complete if you did not have all the information. There are two modules that allows you to mine Mercoxit

While MDCM2 can be used with any mining crystals, and be fitted on any ship, they are not as powerful as MDCSM2, which is a special kind of strip miner used for Mercoxit mining. The regular Modulated Strip Miner II cannot use Mercoxit crystals. While the MDCSM2 can use any crystals, since its base yield is 110 lower than the MSM2 (250 vs 360), there would be no point.

What is particulary nice about the Skiff, is that it gets a 60% bonus to Mercoxit mining yield ­ per level. What this translates into in a ISK/hour ratio will be covered at the end of this section (and again in section 12), however you may have already guessed that with a 300% bonus at Exhumer 5, it'll be a nice one... especially for such a cheap ship.

For the sake of uberness comparison, I'll assume you are a maxed out Hulk pilot already:

250 * 1.25 * 1.25 * 1.15 * 1.15 * 4 * 1.05 * 1.375 * 1.05^2 = 3289.17 m3/cycle
 
Mercoxit has a volume of 40m3, so 3289.17/40 = 82.229 82 units of Mercoxit per cycle

A Skiff fits one MDCSM2, so you'd mine around 1640 units of Mercoxit per hour. (20 cycles, like the other strip miners)



  So as you can see from above we can make some nice isk and we dont need to be in fleets as this can be done solo in worm hole space and null sec (using wormhole gate to jump in and out of null sec)
         
        I will be trying this over the week and get back to you
                                                                 Udie


 

hi
  Sorry about the late introduction but been busy on eve and i needed baellis to give me a kick up the arse to write this......so i am the CEO of the Society of Shadows , which is a one man corp.
 I spend alot of my time on eve buying and selling on the market and working on blueprints and making t2 blueprints at my high sec P.O.S, i also had 3 low sec P.O.S but it started to take to much of my time in eve to run them all and i started to lose my love for the game, but that was then and this is now and i am happy again.
  Please feel free to ask me for help
              fly safe
                       Udie Soon