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⛏️ Mining & salvage
Read a scan signature at a glance, see where each ore and gem spawns, find wrecks to salvage and where to sell, and pick the best refinery for your ore.
📍294Places
💎33Mineables
🚀210Ship mining
🚙25ROC mining
🖐️109Hand mining
🌿91Harvesting
ℹ️ How to read this
- Spawn chance is how many of the spawn spots at a place hold that kind of thing: at 6%, about 6 in every 100 spots there are a ship-mining rock. The rest of a place's spots go to other things (other kinds of mining, harvestables, salvage, nothing).
- The share beside each mineable is how many of those spots are that mineable: Iron 44% means 44 of every 100 ship-mining rocks there are Iron. ≈ of all spots in a place's details is the two together, the best way to compare places for one ore.
- Pick a Mineable on the left (or type its name) and sort by Most of the mineable to see where it's most common. The number beside each choice is how many places it would leave.
- Mining types: ship mining (Prospector, MOLE, Arrastra), ROC mining (the ROC and ROC-DS: gems on the ground), hand mining (a multitool with its mining attachment, in caves and on the surface) and harvesting (plants, pods, fossils and remains you pick up).
- Colours are the rock's tier: Legendary, Epic, Rare, Uncommon, Common. Gems and harvestables have no tier.
- Places of one kind around the same planet or moon with exactly the same spawn table are one row (the 50 mining bases, Pyro's RMB fields, a planet's Lagrange points); its details list each of them. The numbers are the game's own spawn tables (game build 4.10.2-LIVE.12881860), not what players have counted.
From the game's files via the Star Citizen Wiki's datamine, the same as the Star map, checked for a new patch every day. Scan signatures for each one: Scan signatures. A search's link (the address bar) opens the same search.