Nocxium: 694 - Zydrine: 619... the sky is falling!

The unthinkable happened this weekend (although anyone who's been reading this knows it's been heading this way for awhile), Nocxium is now a good clip more valuable than Zydrine. The result is that both Bistot and Crokite are now worth less than Veldspar and, in fact, Crokite is fast approaching Omber in value. Yes, the red-headed step child of Eve miners is close to having the same value (per m3) as a legendary ABC ore. Interestingly, all of the other big 7 minerals fell in value on the weekend. Nocxium is now, officially, the bottleneck mineral. This makes a certain degree of sense, however. Megacyte and Zydrine should always have been the mineral export of choice (along with Morphite of course). They're much easier to carry and you could have a very valuable load in a interdiction proof T3 cruiser if you really wanted to (about 20million isk of Zydrine or 60million of Megacyte or 90million of covert cynosular field generators which is the best combined megacyte/zydrine compressor I could find). A blockade runner with no cargohold expanders or anything can fit about 5 times those numbers and while not IMPOSSIBLE to destroy (I speak from experience on this) is still a pretty tough nut to pop.

So it only makes sense that the abundance of Zydrine in null-sec would finally start coming in to hi-sec. I've explored the Nocxium component though I still don't think I have a satisfactory theory for why it's the bottleneck. Everything i see is that it should be Isogen or Pyerite instead. The only thing i can conclude is that the mining community A) hasn't fully shifted towards Hedbergite/Hemorphite/Jaspet mining and B) there's significant distortion coming from the dropped modules from mission runners. My experiment for this week is to run a BUNCH of lvl 3-4 combat missions and then reprocess everything at once (everything I don't sell, that is) and see what the mix is. If I do 15-20 missions, that should represent a good approximation of the mix being supplied into the economy. If it's in a Nocxium poor mixture, we'll have our culprit.

If anyone's reading this and would like to mirror this experiment, just post a note with the mix of minerals and roughly how many missions that was. I'd love to see it.