You need a pristine metallic belt and then it pays. I mine in an Adder (I think!) and I've only for 12 cargo bays but I've got 4 slots on my refinery and a class 2 mining laser so if I get the good stuff (platinum and palladium) then it's an easy 100k+ per trip.

Willing to share its location?

I haven't been on again to write it down yet. It's a strange name like Tksvati or something.

No chance to play at the weekend - so no hurry.

Waiting to be contacted now I am at Sol although reading some of the forum posts not 100% sure if this happens. If not might try a rare run in the Mk III (will need to lose a bit of cargo and fit a fuel scoop)

Well a “good” session last night

After reading the forums it looks like the “Permit for Sol – come and see us” is hokum. Its just showing you are progressing in the Empire

So have left Sol and been doing a couple of missions to improve my standing in the Federation and got 2 Federation Reputational improvement mission one after the other

The 2nd one – “ill a spy” was going OK when he rammed me and destroyed his ship (and mine to 24%) – unfortunately this did not count as a kill so I found out that if you jump out of the system and then back in it re-sets it so had to fight him a second time - the only issue was that as I had to re-find him didn’t finish until 00.20 last night!!

It's Iksvati and I'm still there. It had 5 or 6 belt clusters with nice amounts of rich metals.

cheers - will look for it on the map when next online and if near might make a detour

It was 100ly from where I was originally.

Got rid of the Adder now for a Cobra. Still had 500k left after trade in but wasn't nearly enough too kit it out. Back to the mining!

Outfitting the Cobra eats money

Did my 1st Rares run this weekend - picket up 40T of Rares from around DISO and then took them 150LY away - with the fuel scope and a B rates FSD it was no to painful an operation - made approx 600K cr

Now done my second (different route - 1 have a 3 way rares run now) and have been able to update to a A rated FSD - so just under 20ly range
Now in Empire Space so may hang around here and do a few missions to increase my empire Rep before doing another run

Still doing the 3 way Rares run with some fun in between

Getting closer to having enough to upgrade to an Asp

I think I might have to start rare runs.

Something nice arrived in the post today

If you want I will send you my run