Moon Mining by Moon Master Jaxan Brax
Introduction
Just like in real life, planets in Eve also have natural satellites (moons). Pieces of a moon can be drilled and fractured for exceptionally valuable ore.
A special player-operated space station called a Refinery fitted with a STANDUP Moondrill is required. The station manager initiates an extraction procedure on the Moondrill which bores into a nearby moon and removes a chunk of material out of the crust at a rate of 20,000 m3 per hour. Once in space, powerful tractor beams grab hold of the chunk and slowly pull it towards the Refinery until it is within a safe distance for fracturing. With the moon chunk in position powerful lasers from the Moondrill itself fire upon the pulled chunk, fracturing it into a small asteroid field to be mined by capsuleers. In this way capsuleers need not wait for a naturally-occurring ore field to spawn in space and can dictate (to a degree) when and what asteroids will spawn in their system for them to mine and reprocess.
Unlike real life, though, all moons in Eve have infinite resources; no matter how many times a chunk is pulled and fractured from a moon the resulting ore and minerals can never be depleted.