To be more specific, exploration is more dangerous since getting farer from mapped space and safe zones (safe zones are 9K around space stations and planets), but more rewarding.
The mining system as I said will have static mining, Zivar added some asteroids within the Pennsylvania AF for a test. Said asteroid had 500 units of Helium in it, after 6 minutes we had 384 units in our hold. Proof of concept to be added soon.