Posted by: MarcAFK
« on: February 11, 2017, 10:28:01 AM »As a rule I try to avoid putting mines anywhere untill after the civilians have, unless I'm desperate.
You can use asteroid mining modules for anything below a specific gravity. I think it's anything less than . 1 g?Or you can leave it without a colony and hope one of your Shipping line companies will pick the spot and make civilian mine colony (CMC) there. Then you just buy all the minerals and have them autoshipped to Earth via the mass driver integrated in CMC.
You can make a colony on any body execept for gas giants, but comets and very small asteroids probably require orbital habitats to hold the population.