Caterium Ore

Caterium Ore is a raw ore that can be smelted into Caterium Ingots. Caterium Ingots can be turned into Quickwire, a component used in advanced logistics, power management, and some alternate recipes.

Research
Picking up a piece of Caterium Ore unlocks the Caterium Research Tree in the M.A.M.

Obtaining
Caterium ore may be located using the Resource Scanner after it has been researched in the M.A.M. and after unlocking Caterium Technologies at Tier 3. It can be mined by hand or by using any of the Miners.

There are currently 16 Caterium resource nodes in-game; 10 normal, and 6 pure, 1 each of normal and pure being blocked by removable boulders. This means the upper limit of harvest rate is 10680 Caterium Ore/min (Mk.3 miners, 250% overclock, Mk.6 belt).

Trivia

 * Some Caterium Ore is covered by Round semi-broken Boulders that need to be removed before you can place a Miner. However, Portable Miners can be placed between and around the Boulders. There are, however, places to mine the ore that is not covered by Boulders. You can use a Nobelisk Detonator to remove those boulders.