Overview
Mining facilities are placed on resource deposits to extract the resource to supply for businesses and production lines. Only the specific building for that resource type can be placed on it; i.e. you can only place a coal facility on coal nodes.
Each facility has two characteristics:
- Extraction Rate
- They all extract 15 resource per minute
- Buffer
- They have a buffer of 58
Placement
- A mine can be placed anywhere on the resource
- It is best practice to optimally place the mines to get the maximum amount
- In the screenshot above you can see a mine has been placed on the outer edge of the resource, any movement north or east and you will not be allowed to place it
- In the screenshot above you can see 2 mines were placed and the third mine is being placed on the next row
- With optimal placement you can get many on a node, I've had deposits that allowed 14 mines
Further Information
- Warehouses can be useful for extending the reach of the mines it can draw from AND provide a faster throughput to the buildings taking from it
- The Logistic Throughput article goes into much deeper discussion about item transfer rates