For those wealthy commander's (CMDR) with fleet carriers, fuel scoop is excess weight they don't need it as their carrier is nearby. You need fuel scoop which in general is optional, but the distances you need to travel between mining / selling systems are so long that you save time with fuel scoop not needing to dock for refuels. collector limpet controller, as many as you can have, lakon type-9 can have 11 limpets.detailed surface scanner so you can find the hotspots (you need it even after you have scanned rings).Deep core requires seismic charges and complex 'dance' to blow up asteroid in spectacular manner. Sub surface deposit mining requires drill missiles which extract the deposits to eject mineral fragments. Laser mining is definitely the most common and easiest way of mining which only requires a mining laser to get fragmetns out of an asteroid. You can sell these minerals in many stations.īasic three types of mining are: laser mining, sub surface deposit mining and deep core mining. Mining is shooting a laser to an asteroid which gives fragments, collector limpets grab these fragments and bring them to your ship where refinery will process them into minerals which are placed in your cargo hold. PMC Elite Dangerous - Mining PMC Elite Dangerous - Mining