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[[Category:Mining]][[Category:Manufacturing]]
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[[Mineral]]s are used in the [[Manufacturing|construction]] of most items found in eve, either directly, or via components that themselves are made of these [[Minerals|minerals]].

[[Minerals|Minerals]] are the direct products of [[refining]] [[ore]]. [[Minerals|Minerals]] can also be obtained from [[reprocessing]] (as Scrap Metal) items. Rarely, [[Minerals|minerals]] can be found as loot in some [[NPC]] [[wrecks]] or [[complex|complexes]].

== Mineral types ==

There are 8 varieties of mineral in EVE:[[Tritanium]], [[Pyerite]], [[Mexallon]], [[Isogen]], [[Nocxium]], [[Zydrine]], [[Megacyte]], and [[Morphite]].

All [[Tech 1]] ships and equipment are comprised of the first seven [[Minerals|minerals]]. Their [[Market|market]] prices are generally determined by their scarcity and the quantities needed to construct popular ships and equipment, but in general, [[Tritanium|Tritanium]] is the cheapest and most abundant, and Megacyte the most expensive and rare.

[[Tech 2]] ships and equipment also require [[Morphite]], an extremely rare and valuable eighth mineral type, along with a number of special components. It requires [[Deep Core Mining]] techniques to extract the [[ore]] ([[Mercoxit]]) that is refined into [[Morphite|Morphite]].

== Mineral Value ==

=== [[NPC_Mineral_Value|NPC Mineral Value]] ===

These are the base mineral values used to calculate a ship's [[Insurance|insurance]] payout.

{| border="1" cellpadding="8"
!Mineral
!Isk Value
|-
|[[Tritanium|Tritanium]]
| 2.00
|-
|[[Pyerite]]
|8.00
|-
|[[Mexallon]]
|32.00
|-
|[[Isogen]]
|128.00
|-
|[[Nocxium]]
|512.00
|-
|[[Zydrine]]
|2048.00
|-
|[[Megacyte]]
|8192.00
|-
|[[Morphite|Morphite]]
|32768.00
|}

=== [[Market|Market]] Mineral Values ===

The value of [[Minerals|minerals]] has varied widely over time.

{| border="1" cellpadding="8"
!Mineral
!Value, May 2009
|-
|[[Tritanium|Tritanium]]
| 4.05
|-
|[[Pyerite]]
|3.85
|-
|[[Mexallon]]
|25.73
|-
|[[Isogen]]
|55
|-
|[[Nocxium]]
|75.01
|-
|[[Zydrine]]
|1718.02
|-
|[[Megacyte]]
|3600.01
|-
|[[Morphite|Morphite]]
|7900.00
|}

== Other resources ==
There are several other types of primary materials:

* [[Ice]], which is harvested from [[Asteroids|asteroids]] in [[ice field]]s
* [[Gas]] harvested from [[gas cloud]]s
* [[Moon Mining]] produces various Gases and Metals

== Ores vs [[Minerals|Minerals]] ==

In order from most abundant to least, and incidentally in order from highest security found in to lowest:
{| border=1 cellpadding=3 cellspacing=0
|+ Bolded ore names (and bolded security rating) show most efficient (mineral/volume mined) source of the mineral.
! align=left| Mineral ||align=left| Found in Ores || Security
|-
| [[Tritanium]] || '''[[Veldspar]]''', [[Scordite]], [[Pyroxeres]], [[Plagioclase]], [[Omber]], [[Kernite]], [[Jaspet]], [[Hemorphite]], [[Gneiss]], [[Arkonor]], [[Dark Ochre]], [[Crokite]], [[Spodumain]] || '''1.0'''
|-
| [[Pyerite]] || '''[[Scordite]]''', [[Pyroxeres]], [[Plagioclase]], [[Omber]], [[Jaspet]], [[Bistot]], [[Spodumain]] || '''1.0'''
|-
| [[Mexallon]] || [[Pyroxeres]], [[Plagioclase]], '''[[Kernite]]''', [[Jaspet]], [[Gneiss]] || 0.9 ('''0.7''')
|-
| [[Isogen]] || '''[[Omber]]''', [[Kernite]], [[Hedbergite]], [[Hemorphite]], [[Gneiss]] || '''0.7'''
|-
| [[Nocxium]] || [[Pyroxeres]], '''[[Jaspet]]''', '''[[Hedbergite]]''', '''[[Hemorphite]]''', [[Dark Ochre]], [[Crokite]] || 0.9 ('''0.4''')
|-
| [[Zydrine]] || [[Jaspet]], [[Hedbergite]], [[Hemorphite]], [[Gneiss]], [[Arkonor]], [[Bistot]], [[Dark Ochre]], '''[[Crokite]]''' || 0.4 ('''0.0''')
|-
| [[Megacyte]] || '''[[Arkonor]]''', [[Bistot]], [[Spodumain]] || '''0.0'''
|-
| [[Morphite]] || '''[[Mercoxit]]''' || '''0.0'''
|}

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