All Spaceship holders are entitled to a daily mining run as long as they are In-System and not traveling to and from missions, although they are allowed to mine during a mission if they are in a solar system. Mineable objects are Asteroids and Comets. You can mine if you have a mining module installed (quantity found increases with mining skill level and mining equipment level), and collect resources up to the cargo capacity of your ship. You must have a comet mining attachment to mine comets, and an Exotic Element Extraction and Packaging (EEEP) attachment to mine exotic elements. You gain experience in your mining skill regardless of failures (unless you have a particular bad encounter), initially requiring 4 attempts to increase from level 0 to level 1. This then increases by 4 per level, so to progress to level 2 you would need 8 further attempts, and to get to level 3 from level 2, 12 further attempts. Your chance to find resources increases with each skill level, as does the bonus on resources found. There are hazards, and one should carefully consider the risks if you do choose to mine while on a mission.