Elite: Find Mother Lode Asteroids for deep core mining

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In this video we'll have a look at:
1. How to find mother lode / deep core deposit hot spots
2. Identifying Mother Lodes
3. How to blow the sucker up
Finding the hot spots is easy in rings, just fire a surface scanner probe at it. Finding mother lodes: spam your pulse wave scanner and look out for black lines across a very bright asteroid.
Ship build:
You'll at least need:
Seismic Charge launcher
Abrasion Blaster
Detailed surface scanner
Collector Limpet Controller
Prospector Limpet Controller
Half a cargo hold of limpets (or fill it up in the beginning)
Firing Group:
detailed surface scanner
prospector/pulse wave
collector/abrasion
seismic charge launcher
Also credits to and more info at: • Elite Dangerous - How ...
Also: here's some pictures of the shape of asteroids in metallic rings: / the_shape_of_mother_lo...

[@NOGRIZZGUY]

that tip about the black lines on it was really good, found one in like 30seconds after I knew which to skip lol

[@tenryuta]

in icy's your often looking for brown/black accents, or bleeding riches red with some yellow(depending on lighting/cubing, this can include shallow red and yellow). any rock with yellow lining at each "crack" is 90% crap. i dont do rock/metal because it doesnt have the simple popcorn, undercooked popcorn, slabs of rock variety

[@paulbowler5345]

Great guide and tips. Just getting into mining and been wondering how to find the motherload asteroids.

[@GenericInternetter]

00:40 they do get a waypoint that you can select from the navigation panel. thing is, you have to be basically very close to the planet to get those waypoints. by "very close" i mean basically above the rings, probably within 1Ly.

[@Tehn00bA]

This was very helpful. I was only getting sub surface asteroids

[@SmashPhysical]

This was helpful, thanks.

[@surfercharliel7928]

Great video.

[@mephistar_one]

о7 1. Is you disarm seismic charge, fissure disappear 2. Didn't get how to get optimal power of charge

[@sith9111]

Good first video, might ad that ya cant find good asteroids in all rings mined.

[@evaone4286]

Nice video! Yeah I was also wondering why my 5 aberration blasters were only blowing off 1 chunk each instead of 5 each time. Was that just glitch that happend at the time or? Can I get a confirmation on that?

[@unganked]

Hi, thanks for commenting! o7 Yeah, I posted this video on reddit and the CMDR crowd confirmed that it was patched. One abrasion blaster seems to be sufficient again!

[@keithmax5535]

Really helpful

[@unganked]

No worries, my pleasure!

[@unganked]

thank you, sir!

[@keithmax5535]

Unganked can you show some tricks to increase rank faster in federation or empire faction

[@unganked]

@@keithmax5535 I'll check it out, in the meantime, here's a helpful forum thread: forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/increase-federation-rank-how.322973/

[@youtubificationizer]

Well, since they broke the pulse wave analyser, mining sucks.

[@cssLiquicity]

y i need half an hour to find one

[@danijelsimic58]

i can sit for hours and search for cores but without luck... does maybe modified hud color affect the colors by scanning??

[@unganked]

Hi there! I haven't tried modified HUD colours, but for me it usually doesn't take more than 15 minutes to find the first one inside a hot spot in a barely engineered Krait MK2

[@peglegvideos]

Make sure your hitting hot spots. Motherlode asteroids are shared in the server, check your systems activity history

[@NightOwlGames]

im looking for tugsten seems rarer than void opals lol need tugsten for engineering

[@unganked]

Haha, true, doesn't that mostly come from surface mining in some sort of ring?

[@rmduwk]

this only applies to the rocky minerals or rocky rings

[@davidwilburn9809]

Is there a way to find hotspots in an asteroid belt

[@aleksanderm8138]

Does bringing 5 abrasion blasters to get 5 deposits from 1 still work, or it was patched?

[@unganked]

Was patched, only one fragment!

[@sausageslaps]

ive scanned a ring where i know theres hotspots and none showed, some have said a glitch causes this, what you think?

[@unganked]

How do you know?

[@peglegvideos]

You surface scan the ring. It does not have to have hot spots to have core asteroids, your just higher likley hood of that particular mineral

[@aldcar]

Second asteroid and a core? Can't seem to figure this out... :(

[@unganked]

You'll learn to recognise the shapes in metal and ice rings soon \o/

[@K1lostream]

I think both kinds of mining have been nerfed - I spent an hour to get one motherlode rock on my last trip with core miner, and my last trip to do normal mining I went to a void opal hotspot, burned through 230-ish prospector limpets and didn't get a single rock containing void opals.

[@Verdant_Horizon]

What the fuck, I always get nothing from following the instructions. I guess elite removed core asteroids.

[@unganked]

That's of course the only logical explanation.

[@GameIsMyOxygen]

Your black lines advice doesn't really work well for me. Been prospecting many black lined asteroids but not even one of them were motherlodes. Good guide video tho.

[@saritar1000]

Try using the night vision. When you find a potential asteroid, turn on your NV and look for glowing fissures (they look like spider webs) if you find them, those are the real ones.