see my post "harvesting?". it's all u got to know. but it takes time and it's not very profitable. In the nav map u have one icon called " mineable areas" or so. go there and start to shoot anything that makes your reticle spinning white.
300+ hours sp play. persistent, i'm i?

Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually (but not always) from an ore body, vein, or (coal) seam. Any material that cannot be grown from agricultural processes must be mined. Mining in a wider sense can also include extraction of petroleum, natural gas, and even water.

Well he or she asked didn't they

Sheesh, you mean if I want to mine, I have to travel all the way from the Sirius System to the earth???

Time to build a sleeper ship.