Hey guys, I have a question regarding mining that I hope you can help me with. I've been playing just over a week, and am still learning the ropes. I have spent some time mining a bit, and I've noticed something that confuses me, especially given the comments here, which I've also see echoed elsewhere. And that's about mining being more profitable in lower sec space (assuming the harder to get ores). What confuses me is, that as the ores get rarer, and more valuable, they also get bigger in unit size. Since the mining lasers work on a total volume per pass, it doesn't seem like mining rarer ores actually generates more income (or at least, not THAT much more). Now, I'm obviously not talking about Mercoxit here, but among the 8 or so most common ores, it seems the range of value, in similar time periods, is within about a 50% window, and looking at the ores that come after that, it's still right in that same ballpark.

So what am I missing that makes mining the rarer ores that much more profitable?

Thanks,

Tat