Void Opal help please?

[Furry Eskimo]

I've been hearing tale of 350 mil and hour from many players, and far higher from youtubers. Void opals are the way to go!
Well.. I'm AT a void opal hotspot, and I have been for hours, and I haven't found even a single deep core asteroid! I found some yesterday with diamonds inside, which was very nice and fun, but I found two asteroids total, and today I can't find any. Where are all the deep core asteroids? I know the show up as a deep yellow, almost red color, compared to the pale yellow/orrange and bright orange that most asteroids are.. I'm trying to find places to check, but all the tools/guides I've found online haven't helped me find better/any places to mine.

Where am I supposed to go to find these rocks?? Please, help me.. I'm just trying to have a fun time mining, but I can't find the rocks I'm looking for..

[BigKill]

First and foremost....look for ICY Rings with "Pristine Reserves" you'll be crackin open a rock every 10 min.

[One Eye Jack]

Go Here:

https://eddb.io/body

Put where you are in the "reference system". Put icy and pristine in the appropriate boxes and search. That will tell you where the nearest pristine ice ring systems are.

[Manwith Noname]

When you add it all up, travel to ring, find fissures, blow roid, collect ore, find high price station and go there, it's kinda rare for the average player to make 350mph. Sure, I bet people have done it, maybe more than once but it's more realistic to expect 50-150mph.

Experience will help you be more efficient and consistent but I still kinda feel there's too much at play to guarantee the high payouts you see people claim. Mind you, 100mph is pretty good.

[Furry Eskimo]

I was using that website and it was finding nothing.. idk why..
As for making sure the ring is pristine, sillily enough,,, idk how to tell if a ring is pristine or not.. I look through all the stats on an area, but I never see a stat that tells me the condition of the ring.
Also yes, I'm looking for ice rings. I'm AT an ice ring, void opal hotspot, and finding nothing. My guess is that it's depleted, but I can't find that stat anywhere, so I don't know.

[{TNT}caliban55]

The ring state is displayed under the System map. As for 350+ million credits per hour, that would be extremely lucky and far from the average (as you just found out yourself).

You can look in the Pandhis system, there are several hotspots (Void Opals included), which are not depleted.

[Roadie]

I mean 50-100 mill per hour is still good. I’ve been saving for a krait mk2 and that would cover it instantly

[the frost staff]

Once you get a load, go here[inara.cz], and go to the best selling station.

[FirstToDie]

I do about 100-140mil/hour in my Krait Phantom. I don’t bother worrying about ring state. If it makes much of a difference, I haven’t noticed it. Not saying it doesn’t, just saying I’ve had incredible luck in depleted rings as well.

Most of all, I’d recommend a dark, mostly lightless ring, using night vision. This will help normalize asteroid glow from your pulse. Make sure to pulse the asteroid twice, you are looking for black splotches (in dark rings) which mark the asteroid as having a core.

Absolutely nothing beats experience, eventually you will learn to recognize potential asteroids and just as importantly, ones to avoid, just by their shape.

[the frost staff]

Originally posted by FirstToDie:

I do about 100-140mil/hour in my Krait Phantom. I don’t bother worrying about ring state. If it makes much of a difference, I haven’t noticed it. Not saying it doesn’t, just saying I’ve had incredible luck in depleted rings as well.

Absolutely nothing beats experience, eventually you will learn to recognize potential asteroids and just as importantly, ones to avoid, just by their shape.

People recomend going into deep space for void opal mining. And I know what beats experience: knowledge and experience

[Bubba Fett]

Last time I was mining void opals there were a couple of ships that kept circling my ship. I was WAY off the hotspot marker and the RES marker (more than 2500 km) and they just kept hanging around my ship.
They didn't get hostile to me while I was there and I wasn't going to fly over to them and scan them since one was an Anaconda and the other was an AspX and I was in a lightly armed Phantom. After cracking my 3rd rock I decided to play it safe and go sell my loot.
Is this a normal thing when you just pick a random spot to mine?

[Furry Eskimo]

Well I'm trying to just go for the core asteroids, but I'm not seeing any..
I fly in, pick a direction, and fly. But nothing appears..

[One Eye Jack]

Originally posted by Furry Eskimo:

I was using that website and it was finding nothing.. idk why..
As for making sure the ring is pristine, sillily enough,,, idk how to tell if a ring is pristine or not.. I look through all the stats on an area, but I never see a stat that tells me the condition of the ring.
Also yes, I'm looking for ice rings. I'm AT an ice ring, void opal hotspot, and finding nothing. My guess is that it's depleted, but I can't find that stat anywhere, so I don't know.

Are you sure you are using it right? I had similar problems with it until I figured out which boxes to fill in and which to leave blank.

All you want is the "Reference System" which would be the system you are in most likely. Assuming that is where they are buying for 1.6 mill per ton. "Reference system" is at the bottom of the page. Than at top right is "Ring type" and "Reserve type". That all you want to enter is those three. Then click "Find Bodies" on the bottom right. Unless something very odd is going on it should find a fairly long list of them.

Also the same site is good to find stations that are buying and current buying price.

I have been using the Kraite Phantom for deep core mining. I think it is pretty near the perfect ship for the job. My highest paying trip was a bit over 150 mil. That took about an hour and a half. So good luck. It pays well.

[FirstToDie]

I have yet to go outside the bubble to mine. I’ve made over 3 billion deep core mining within 40 ly of Sol.

You do have to chase the market. Eventually the market will crash near your mining site and you will need to relocate. While traveling to the closest selling station, I use the opportunity to prospect systems as I pass through them. If I find opal hotspots, I’ll bookmark for later reference.

[One Eye Jack]

Originally posted by Furry Eskimo:

Well I'm trying to just go for the core asteroids, but I'm not seeing any..
I fly in, pick a direction, and fly. But nothing appears..

Stupid question..... but...... do you have a pulse wave scanner installed? And if so have you set it to one of your fire buttons? You have to keep pressing it repeatedly for things to show up.

[Furry Eskimo]

That's exactly what I did on the website, but I got no results..
I entered my location, selected pristine location, icy. But I get nothing.