Ores: Stash or Trash


There are a lot of ores to prospect in Earth and Beyond. Many are useful to for various things, Most -- espeically lower level ones -- are not. Uses include building components -- for which a prospector will need to sell/trade the ores to a Tradesman. Completing various missions. Special uses, and some ores are in great demand as a ingredient in popular weapons Ammo.


The below table is a list of ores that I have found useful and worth keeping. Please let me know if there are some that I have missed.

Level Ore refines-to Value Used-for
1 Raw Colorless Tazeron Colorless Tazeron 3 Used to build Universal Maelstrom Key. Can be mined at Nav Inverness 6 in Inverness.
1 Mordanite ? 6 Mercury Chloride, Missions, give to vrix, give to Malhouse (dahin planet) for mordana faction.
2 Tin Ore Tin 3 Make Tinfoil ( for level 7 SS mission)
3 Star Iron Ore Star Iron 6 Make Blackbox M22, for Ogun level 3
3 Obsidian Ore Obsidian Dust 6 Make Blackbox M22, for Ogun level 3
3 Light Crude Oil High-Impact Plastic 6 Make Blackbox M22, for Ogun level 3
6 Conorite 3 Please Don't feed this to the Bunyip.
6 Platinum Ore Platinum, Platinum Alloy 7 Used in Mars construction Project
6 Osirium Ore Osirium, Platinum Alloy 5 Mars Construction Project
6 Oxium Ore Oxium, Oxium Alloy 5 Mars Construction Project
6 Mirandium Ore Mirandium, Oxium Alloy 5 Mars Construction Project
6 Discordite Discordium 10 Used in components for Zet ammo, Archos ammo
6 Homerite ? 8 Used for Athanor Athena (Sting of Mordana Ammo)
7 Tantalum Ore Tantalum, Tantalum Alloy 8 Mars Construction Project
7 Demeter's Tears ?, Tantalum Alloy 5 Mars Construction Project
7 Stygian Blacksand Black Silicon 8 Ce3K X44 Relay (many devices)
7 Raw Horusium horusium 9 Zet Ammo, Ce3K X44 Relay (many devices)
7 Iridium Ore Iridium 9 Ce3K X44 Relay (many devices)
7 Raw Eye Stone Eye Stone 10 Used in Zet ammo
7 Apollonite Apollonium 5 Used in Zet Ammo
8 Vanirium Ore Vanirium 5 Various comps
8 Ambrosia Crude Immortal Flexiglass 5 Various components
8 Duplium Ore Duplium 5 Various components
8 Raw Scyllan Diamond Scyllan Diamond 5 Beam optic used in Soulfire
9 Aesirium Ore Aesirium 8 Archos components, Zet components
9 Balderium Ore Balderium 8 Archos components, Zet components
9 Modredium Ore Modredium 8 Archos components, Zet components
9 Raw Tiberium Tiberium 8 Ghost Edge Component
9 Asmodeusium Ore Asmodeusium 8 Archos components
9 Astralite Astral Glass 9 Used for Zach Mission Solar panel components.
9 Grail Water Arthurian Plastic 8 Archos components