Refining Guide
this guide I will try and help you understand the basics of refining in the Eve universe. Now refining is not that hard but it can be complicated. There are a magnitude of things that can change the out comes when refining. Those are your skills your standings and the station you are refining in. Let’s start with skills. If you go under the industry tab in market you will see skills named Veldspar Processing or Scordite Processing these are the refining skills. To become a good refiner you must first train the Refining skill. This skill reduces the amount of waste by 2% per level. After getting refining to level 5 (10% reduction in waste) you can train the skill Refining Efficiency which decreases refining waste by 4% per level.
For the specific ore processing skills they all decrease the amount of wasted minerals by 5% when refining to 25% decrease in wastage at level 5. Another bonus to having the specific ore processing skills is that once at level one you can use the t1 mining lasers which help you mine ore faster. Once at level 4 you can use the t2 mining crystals which increase the amount of ore you can mine in the same amount of time.
For the ores they each give different amounts of minerals and different types of minerals. (These numbers are assuming max refining)
Veldspar 333 units to refine 1000 Trit
Concentrated Veldspar 333 units to refine 1050 Trit
Dense Veldspar 333 units to refine 1100 Trit
Scordite 333 units to refine 833 Trit 416 Pyerite
Condensed Scordite 333 units to refine 875 Trit 437 Pyerite
Massive Scordite 333 units to refine 916 Trit 458 Pyerite
Pyroxeres 333 units to refine 844 Trit 59 Pyerite 120 Mexallon 11 Nocxium
Solid Pyroxeres 333 units to refine 886 Trit 62 Pyerite 126 Mexallon 12 Nocxium
Viscous Pyroxeres 333 units to refine 928 Trit 65 Pyerite 132 Mexallon 12 Nocxium
Plagioclase 333 units to refine 256 Trit 512 Pyerite 256 Mexallon
Azure Plagioclase 333 units to refine 296 Trit 538 Pyerite 269 Mexallon
Rich Plagioclase 333 units to refine 282 Trit 563 Pyerite 282 Mexallon
Omber 500 units to refine 307 Trit 123 Pyerite 307 Isogen
Silvery Omber 500 units to refine 322 Trit 129 Pyerite 322 Isogen
Golden Omber 500 units to refine 338 Trit 135 Pyerite 338 Isogen
Kernite 400 units to refine 386 Trit 773 Mexallon 386 Isogen
Luminous Kernite 400 units to refine 405 Trit 812 Mexallon 405 Isogen
Fiery Kernite 400 units to refine 424 Trit 850 Mexallon 425 Isogen
Next are standings. You might ask yourself what in the world do standings have to do with refining. That is a good question and I intent to answer it for you. When you are in a station refining the corporation that owns the station takes 5% of the minerals you would get from refining if you have 0.00 standings with them. At 5.00 standings with the NPC corp they will take 0% of the minerals from the ore your are refining.
Lastly I will be talking about the stations you refine your ore in. In most high sec NPC corps the refining efficiency is 99%. In low sec and nul sec NPC stations it is between 90-80%. In Pos stations it is 75%.
I hope you have enjoyed my refining guide.