Elite - Materials Grind

Steps

1. Perform a detailed surface scan of the plan

2. Set filter to Brain Trees

3. Go to Dark blue area of surface

4. Fly to a forest of trees and mine

   1. Some recommend using mines from your ship to reduce work of blasting the trees

   2. Draw distance can cause trees to pop into view late

Selenium

• Looks like flat pancakes

• Easy to find

• Looks the same as G2 materials

Antimony / Yttrium /

• Excretions

• Looks like a orange popcorn

HR 3230 3 A A - Selenium [Valid]

• Notes

  1. Unload / cross-trade Manganese prior to arrival as you will collect a lot here

  2. Selenium present in Brain trees

  3. Lots of Manganese

• Closest material trader

  1. Pytheas Dock - HIP 38235: 227.15 LY [Currently Under Attack / Damaged]

  2. Pogson Vision - Tau Puppis: 271.11 LY

• Rocky areas around guysers seem to have high drop rates

  1. 90% drop rate at

     • -11.9044

     • 92.0314

V518 Carinae 2 A - Antimony [Valid]

• Brain trees are more rare on the planet surface

• Planet Surface is VERY bumpy

• Drops are

  • Antimony

  • Moltbdenuium

  • Nobium

• Visited [~20% drop rate for Antimony]

  • 30.7702

  • 31.2979

• Suggested location

  • 13.7416

  • -91.2381

Synuefe AN-H D11-101 AB 1 C - Yttrium [Valid]

• Yttrium available on brain trees

• Drops are

  • Yttrium

  • Niobium

  • Cadmium

Kappa-1 Volantis B 3 F A - Selenium

• Drops are

  • Chromium

  • Selenium (at least 50%)

• Suggested Location

  • 40.6181

  • -132.9905

Synuefe LX-G B44-11 B 2 - Selenium

• Rare [Not confirmed]

  • Technetium

• Suggested location

  • 20.4375

  • -154.1866

Kappa-1 Volantis B 7 C A - No Grade 4 Materials

• Drops are

  • Geranium

  • Vanadium

  • Some Manganese

• No drops of Tellerium found

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• Suggested location

  • 21.3445

  • 36.3395