Unexceptional Frontier Deposit

Arkonor	15000
Bistot	25000
Crockite	25000
Dark Ochre	25000

Two covertors have mined all arkonor in approximately 2 hours. With a short break to shoot down sleepers, who had awoke. Fit was not perfect, low slots were occupied by warpstabs, mine lasers were strip miner I – without crystals, because I haven’t skills yet. The third char drove on bestower with 6 containers. Next morning I’ve mined a bit (10K) arkonor and a bit Bistot... For 1 day covertors paid for itself.
Overall, not too bad, and there is where to grow, but there was one problem ... all together it takes 430,000 m3 - a completely unrealistic to push this amount through a hole with size of BC. A processing in WH has an efficiency of 75%, regardless of my perfect skills. 25% down the drain.

There is an alternative - compress ore. To do this, I need two weeks - to continue learning the skills needed to build Rorqual, 2 weeks to build it and 2 months to learn only the skills to get into it.  After that, it will need to learn a lot of things. Not less than six months ...

While writing, came to mind another option - to build an orca (which I also can't build, and fly on it too). To drag the ore directly to the hole, then drag it by bestower to the other orca standing outside ... Nightmare, and too risky ... but possible. Get much better than fly from POS to station, but still hemorrhoids. But if we take seriously mining, the volume will be 2-3 freighters for the day ... this is impossible.

That is, in fact, you can either take a character with perfect Rorqual .... and so I immediately get ill at the thought of the price, or wait patiently until it learn .... my God, as long. Or invite miners and let them have a headache ... Then as usual everything is not just so, spies, intrigue, and the mass of any problems.

P.S. Sleepers respawn in these gravics  very weak... Skiff could tank they easy, covertos warp out without problems too, they do not even have time to scratch the panel. Actually originally barges were taken in order not to sit just waiting to respawn sleepers, they only appear after about 20 minutes on site.