EVE Newbie Ice Mining Guide

Ice Harvesting

1: What is Ice?

Ice is something like ore. One big difference is the volume of ice: Every piece of Ice is 1000 m³. You can find it in Ice belts which are in some systems. There are much less Ice belts than normal asteroid belts. You must mine ice with a separate machine than a mining laser. Only mining barge can mine ice.


Ice Types:

• Blue Ice (Gallente)
• Clear Icicle (Amarr)
• Dark Glitter
• Gelidus
• Glacial Mass (Minmatar)
• Glare Crust
• Krystallos
• White Glaze (Caldari)
• **NOTE** There are many different types of ice for each race.

2: For what is it needed?

The refined Ice is needed to run POS (Player Owned Stations). A POS uses much Ice per day, so there is always Ice needed on the EVE market.


3: What do I need for mining it?

You need at least a Mining Barge (Procurer, Retriever or Covetor) or an Exhumer (Skiff, Mackinaw or Hulk) (Industry V, Mining IV, Astrogeology IV and the skills for the ship class). And you need the Skills Ice Harvesting (Mining IV)


4: How can I mine it and how can i optimize my efficiency?

Fit your Ice Harvesters on your Mining Barge/Exhumer. If you can do it, fit Ice Harvester Upgrades. The Mackinaw has a +100% bonus on the yield of Ice Harvesters, but a -25% duration Penalty. The penalty is reduced by 5% for every Exhumers skill level. So you really should have Exhumer V with the Mackinaw to have a normal cycle time. The fact that it gets double yield per cycle makes it the most efficient Ice Harvesting ship available.

But I want to tell you, that Ice Harvesting is it only worth if you have Ice Harvesters II and a Mackinaw with Exhumers V and Ice Harvesting V

With that setup you can earn more money with mining Ice than with mining ore.

That way you get a real good efficiency and you can earn real much money with mining Ice.


5: Your corp and ice mining.

When mining in 0.0 space for ice try and get large runs together for large amounts of profit. Having large amounts of people running ice is great for 2 reasons. You get an increase profit yield. If you have 10 people and you fill up and divide the sum evenly it can really help. You don’t get only your share but the 10% of the millions the 10 people have a made. The second reason is defence. The pirates will and do attack miners. Having a 1 or 2 battleships or even larger scares away most rats. If the rats aren’t scared then you have large guns backing you up. This lowers the profit vs. risk ratio.