Home Mining Star Citizen mining and refining calculator Work out what ship-mined ore is worth after refining, at which refinery and by which method, and rank every refinery and method by net profit, refinery bonuses included.
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Refining Refinery Pick a refinery ARC-L1 Wide Forest Station ARC-L2 Lively Pathway Station ARC-L4 Faint Glen Station CRU-L1 Ambitious Dream Station HUR-L1 Green Glade Station HUR-L2 Faithful Dream Station MIC-L1 Shallow Frontier Station MIC-L2 Long Forest Station MIC-L5 Modern Icarus Station Nyx Gateway (Stanton) Pyro Gateway (Stanton) Terra Gateway (Stanton) Checkmate Station Nyx Gateway (Pyro) Orbituary Ruin Station Stanton Gateway (Pyro) Levski Pyro Gateway (Nyx) Stanton Gateway (Nyx) Method Pick a method Dinyx Solventation (yield 93.3%, 19 h 12 min) Ferron Exchange (yield 90%, 9 h 36 min) Pyrometric Chromalysis (yield 87.5%, 9 h 36 min) Electrostarolysis (yield 85%, 5 h 20 min) Thermonatic Deposition (yield 83%, 9 h 36 min) Gaskin Process (yield 80%, 2 h 40 min) Cormack Method (yield 75%, 2 h 40 min) Kazen Winnowing (yield 72%, 5 h 20 min) XCR Reaction (yield 70%, 48 min) Sell price Average Best offer
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Match your terminal's quote Enter a work order quote from the refinery terminal and this method's yield, time and fee follow it. The refinery's bonus is taken out, so the quote carries over to other refineries and minerals.
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Mineral data for game version 4.10.1. Prices and refinery bonuses are UEX community data, fetched Oct 3, 2026.
Minerals, places and qualities come from api.star-citizen.wiki, read from the game files. Prices and refinery bonuses are what players report to UEX (uexcorp.space). The yield, time and fee of each refining method are community-measured estimates. Radar signatures are read from the files of game build 12660092.