Best Local Mining Sectors.

[Chief Smackahoe]

What are your best local mining sectors and how many miners do you have?

[Wraith]

Saturn is the best local automine location

Superhighway sectors

Very hungry Terran raw resource industry combine with very safe location

[Chief Smackahoe]

What are you mining in Saturn?

[Wraith]

Originally posted by Chief Smackahoe:

What are you mining in Saturn?

Pretty much all resources
But mostly ore and silicon as starters

[Humble]

It's depend how many station in that sector, Saturn is good automine location, but only there is couple station that need those resource, I find best one is Oost Cloud, it's often had more station in it than Saturn, very safe area, but downside, it's more favor toward of Segaris Pioneers rather than Terran Protectorate even it's under Terran Protectorate's control sector, lot of Segaris station there, so if you want improve Terran protectorates, yes, I guess Saturn is best.
Asteroid Belt is not good place, it's only one or 2 if you luckly or no station in that area, depend on your map seed, and it's not safe place, as Khaak do attack this area here and there later game.

Best of all is Grand Exchange, so many station, so many resource, 3 into 1 sectors, it's best place of all for automine, you quick rise rank in Teladi Company so easy, but downside, there might be pirate few here and there, and Khaak and Xenon attack here and there, so you better off get that crane L miner to handle it in late game once you can afford to replace M miner. Teladi's Crane L Miner is best L miner of all factions but before you get to L, you had to use M to making profit, once you had lot of money and start losing those M, then buy L to replace M.

[Humble]

Originally posted by Wraith:

Originally posted by Chief Smackahoe:

What are you mining in Saturn?

Pretty much all resources
But mostly ore and silicon as starters

Same here, First Silicon, Second Ore, then there could be any type of gas or Ice, depend on station need, to keep flow, sadly enercy cell are need too to keep it flow, so they need more mine resource as well. Do not limited to one mass resource, do balanced of every type of resource, depend how many station do you had in there sector, check their station overview to see what resourced they need, then buy ship and command ship to filled that need.

[Humble]

Here is list for every type of miner, Silicon, Ore, Ice and all Gas, (not a nividium)
Oont Cloud, Saturn, Segaris, Black Hole Sun, Holy Vision, Trinity Sanctum VII, Trinity Sanctum III, Hewa's Twin I and II, Ianamus Ianamus IV and VII
Of course, it's legand of "Grand Exhange"
Those sector do need every type of miner but Nividium, but You can mine and sell auto Nividium in Grand Exchange, there is trading station do buy it, I think but it's very limited.

Some Faction do not had a good sector for all type of resource and safe like that, Free Families and Zyarth Patriarchy don't had good sector to had all type in one sector. Same Antigone Republie, and not very safe, it's very heavy Silicon and Ore, but little gas in safe other sector.
Vigour Syndicate, meh, they don't need it much, they just using scrapyard, not usuing resource that much.
Riptide Rakers had very good but their station don't need that resourced, they depend on scape thing, and danger of Star wave every hours to damage your ship or destroyed so best to avoid.

Edit: I forgot Hatikvah's choice III is petty good but it's not very safe even L miner, due Xenon incoming with destroyer here and there in Hatikvah's choice I where miner could sell to station there.

[Wenzilber]

I only have the vanilla base game at the moment so I can't comment about any of the DLC sectors.

In my games, the following are always true about "the best mining sectors"

Trinity Sanctum VII (Home of the ALI Wharf) and Eighteen Billion (Ministry of Finance) both have a lot of everything. Edit: They're both favourite spawn points for pirates. Trinity Sanctum has quite a few Duke Buccaneers and Eighteen Billion has the SCA Pirates.

Holy Vision has a lot of 1) Hydrogen, 2) Silicon, 3) Ice, 4) Ore (in that order). It makes a great location for Engine Parts production factory and everything with Silicon Wafers.

Galactic Exchange I has the most Ice.

Pious Mist IV (Take the Gate South off the East Jump Gate in Pious Mist II) has the most Methane, Ore, and Silicon. A favourite spawn for the Khaaks though.

There are a lot more good sectors to build too that could also be safe for your miners and transport ships. I just listed the ones that are very near if not on the same sector with a Superhighway.

EDIT #2 and 5: My Miners setup: Two Crane Sentinels feed 3 resource refinery modules (they use 4,800 resources per hour). Or 1 Crane Sentinel feeds 1 Antimatter Cell or Water module (they use 9,600 resources per hour).

My Traders: I have 4 to 6 Demeter Vanguards always assigned to Trade for Stations that produce items that feed Ship parts factories. These are Hull Parts, Engine Parts, Microchips, Smart Chips, Scanning Arrays, etc. My Refined Goods factories are used by my own production factories.

EDIT #3: My Transports (Station Mules/Haulers): I use just enough Unassigned Vulture Sentinels (between 3 to 5) on standby to haul refined goods to my production factories when needed. They seem very slow on paper (slower than most L Freighters) but they are actually very fast on the Superhighway.

EDIT #4: When funds allow, I have 2 Incarcatura Sentinels that transport high demand items to my Trade Hubs. When they've done their job, they park beside my Trading Station to wait to fill HUGE demand items (often Hull Parts) to Shipyards, Wharves, Equipment Docks. They are the ones that give me over 1,000,000 credit per trade to earn more money on my next Custom Game (Budgeted) start.

[deuxhero]

Check if the Terrans build anything in Getsu Fune. Normally it has good availability and low demand, but if they build any production there that needs Silicon or Ore the price becomes great, and it's safe as long as you deploy resource probes away from the east gate since the Terran military presence there is pretty solid.

Antigone Memorial and Pious Mists XI are notable for having sizable Nividium deposits with non-hostile default inhabitants. Both sectors are reasonably safe but not totally so. The real issue is you'll need to manually tell your miners to sell their cargo when full since the trade stations that will take it aren't close enough.

[Chief Smackahoe]

In my currently play through Second Contact is killing it with Grand exchange as the runner up. I’ve got 10 silicon miners locally mining between the sectors with a solid 100k profit every trade.

[Gibbo]

Originally posted by Chief Smackahoe:

In my currently play through Second Contact is killing it with Grand exchange as the runner up. I’ve got 10 silicon miners locally mining between the sectors with a solid 100k profit every trade.

Yeah I was going to say Second Contact. You do need L miners though really. Lots of Khaak down that way. The HOP have a couple of good sctors. An M miner would make good use of the highways as well.

[mcb0ny]

Oort Belt in my game. Several Factories that need everything terrans would need, plus no threats of any kind. Asteroid Belt is similar, but can have Kha'ak.

Saturn is safe but usually kinda empty, so local autominers have noone to trade with. Works fine with Mining station though.

As for number of miners... Not much, really, i try to not have more than 10 M miners per resource in one sector.

[Sticky Wicket]

Oort cloud for Silicon & Hydrogen and The Reach for Ore.

The Segaris Pioneers and Terran bordering sectors is a great *goldmine* area all round too for pretty much eveything. Set up miners to automine Gaian Prophecy, Segaris, Neptune (or if no refineries in sectors you can give the command to mine and sell in the next one).