
When the Ice Site cosmic anomaly spawns, a miner can easily locate it through the Probe Scanner (no actual probing is needed, this is the same way combat sites are located and warped to).Ice Belts can be easily located through the Dotlan web page with a blue circle around the system box. Ice can only be found in systems with Ice Belts and only from the associated Ice Site (a Cosmic Anomaly).Mining Lasers are generally used on Mining Frigates (and non-mining ships). Ore is mined using a Mining Laser or Strip Miner.There are different varients of ore (e.g., Condensed/Dense variants of Veldspar) that are slightly more valuable than the regular grade of ore and should generally be mined first.There is generally little difference in the value of High Security ores (relative to yield), however, The lower the security of space, the rarer the ore type.Anomalies are randomly spawning and will have ore types that are rarer than the ore types that appear in the System's Belts.Belts generally return to their full size three days after it was last mined. Belts can vary in composition and amount and will be generally lower the more often they are mined (think of 'crop rotation' when mining a certain belt). Asteroid Belts replenish after daily DownTime ( usually about 15 minutes).Ore is most commonly mined from Belts which are persistent in location and number within a System. As noted previously, ore can be mined from asteroids located in Belts, Anomalies, or Mission Pockets.Gas sites can appear in any space but the best sites are within Wormholes (which have a 15 minute Sleeper Guard timer). Gas: Gas is mined from gas clouds in Gas Sites (also Cosmic Anomalies).( Note: The ice anomaly will state the main ice resource located in the belts.) Ice Sites do not need to be scanned down and respawn in the system four hours after the site is cleared. Ice Anomalies only spawn in systems with Ice Belts. Ice: Ice is mined from ice belts located in Ore Sites (the name of the site will indicate that its an Ice site).Ore sites in null Sec Sovereignty space usually respawns very quickly. Asteroids can also be found in mission pockets and mined more privately in them. Asteroids can occasionally appear in Ore Site anomalies (which do not need to be scanned down). Most systems in New Eden have asteroid belts where ore is commonly mined from. 6 More Mining Techniques for Efficiency.
