Had some really annoying weird **** happen last night. Somehow managed fly my ship into one of those floating copper rocks. It got stuck on the surface of the rock and I couldn't get free. So I died. On respawn, my starship was now under said floating rock, but my ship was damaged, and had to walk about 15 minutes each way to find some damn zinc to fix it... Getting back to the ship, I mined away the floating copper and took off, but I'd missed a bit, so the starship couldn't get away, panic ensued as I didn't want to go through all that again, but I managed to land, get rid of the rouge bit of copper, and take off.
Trying to mine 800 aluminium for my warp drive upgrade. No idea where I get nickel from, or Iridium for that matter...