Are mined resources exhaustible?

[jakotheshadows]

In other words, is it possible to "mine out" the galaxy until there is no more ore/ice/nividium/methane/helium/hydrogen? I'm asking because I've seen resource probes locate nividium, then when I send an L miner there to harvest it the units per km^3 drop rapidly.

[Requiemfang]

Would be counter-intuitive to have finite resources in a sandbox game like this. The whole in game economy would come to a crashing halt if resources were finite.

[LordFlinx]

I did notice my miners tend to spread out with time and dont return to the same spot except ordered to.

Worth taking a look at...

[malkuth1974]

They respawn.

[Teleth]

I think the resources should really be finite in the sense that asteroids in the center of each system should respawn with slower/less yield, promoting deep space exploration of systems; there is a lot of real-estate in the game and mining doesn't sound like it benefits much from it so far. Can anyone report finding good asteroid yields further out in systems?

[otto_deluxe]

From what I've seen, each spot has max resources and current resources. If it's mined, the current resources drop, and replenish up to max over time. At least that's what I get from some testing and resource probes.

[KextV8]

Resources will get spawned back in over time. You can't run completely out.

[linolafett]

Resources replentinsh at a set rate. If you mine more than this set rate, you will get bottlenecked that way.