Mining Colonized Worlds

More about Mining

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To build a mine, just add it to the production queue. You can do this manually or by using the auto-build feature of the Production dialog. These mines will be built, and the minerals within will be mined and made available immediately to the locals.

Alternate Reality Race and Mining Colonized Worlds
Since Alternate Reality races live on starbases and can only perform a small amount of innate mining, they must remote mine their own worlds.

To determine how much more of a mineral a new mine will produce:

1. Turn to page 5 of the View Race dialog and see how efficient your race is at building and using mines and factories. Cancel the dialog when you've finished.

2. Look at the mineral concentration information in the Selection Summary pane and the Minerals on Hand tile. Click on the mineral name or value in either of these locations to display information on the density of each mineral under the surface.

3. Calculate productivity using this formula:

(potential productivity)(mineral concentration) = (actual productivity)

For example, you learn from the View Race dialog that 10 mines produce up to 10 kT per year and from the Mineral Content graph in the Selection Summary that mineral concentration is 50 percent. Then 100 mines will produce 50 kT of each mineral in the next year. In this case, you would have to add two mines for every 1 additional kT of each mineral you want each year.