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Hi folks,

I just started my new game and I found the Ice Planet in the below picture.
It has two resources, one is a gas and the other one is ivory.
Given that there is a gas mining station already built, am I able to extract the ivory as well?

Gas mining stations and ore mining stations are equipped with luxury extractors, so you will have access to the ivory.

I understand now, thanks [:)]

Thiosk is correct, however, to be more efficient I usually redesign such bases and increase the number of gas mining, mining and luxury components as well as the cargo for holding the resources. A typical base of mine would have at the least 2 gas/mining components and 2 luxury components (more if its a scare resource/luxury).

I'm not sure if they fixed this yet or not (hopefully they have) but, in early iterations of the game, if you had a station mining a planet and that planet had say 3 resource types - 1 common strategic, 1 relatively rare strategic and 1 luxury, the PRIVATE sector freighters that would come pick up those resources and distribute them to your other colonies or sell them to other Empires would prioritize the rare and/or luxury goods pickup and leave more of the common till later thus, gradually, filling up more and more of your cargo space on the station with that common ore. This is why I add more cargo space (23k or so usually) so that your mining stations won't experience downtime because of no cargo room left to put mined resources into and to make sure that there is sufficient room for all the different types of resources you are mining.