Public Mines

The NCR Mine's location on worldmap. As you can see, it's really public.

There are several mines throughout the world near major cities and players can go there to mine the resources they will need to craft items. There are three types of mines : Guarded, Unguarded, and Private mines. In the guarded ones, you can find only basic minerals and iron ore. The unguarded ones contain both basic and high quality materials. Unguarded mines are more dangerous because players can go there to kill miners

Guarded Mines

Are guarded by NPCs in the similar manner as towns. You can wield weapons there, but attacking is not allowed and will be punished by force.

The Klamath Mine's entrance, guarded by rude trappers!

Available resources

These are the resources you can mine safely, in guarded mines :

• Iron Ore.
• Minerals.

Locations

The following list includes the location of all the game's guarded mines :

• Southwest of NCR.
• Southeast of San Francisco.
• West of Klamath.
• Southwest of Junktown.

Unguarded Mines

Unguarded mines are more dangerous because players can go there to kill miners. There are no NPC guards and it's only on the player himself to avoid death. Carrying a weapon or having a buddy to protect you is not a bad idea at all.

The Redding Mine's entrance, guarded by... hum, nobody.

Available resources

These are the resources you can mine in more dangerous, unguarded mines :

• Iron Ore.
• Minerals.
• High Quality Iron Ore.
• High Quality Minerals.
• Uranium Ore only in Broken Hills

Locations

The following list includes the location of all the game's unguarded mines :

• East of Gecko.
• In Broken Hills.
• In Redding.

Private Mines

These can be purchased from the resident Mine Overseer, at each of the Guarded mines in the game world. The Overseer will charge you 75,000 caps for directions to the location. He will only make a deal with a character once. The resources available inside this mine will be depleted after time, but the location will remain visible to owner.

The entrance to your personal mine.

Available resources

These are the resources you can mine in your own mine:

• Iron Ore.
• Minerals.

Inside the mine.

Locations

The following list includes the location of all the game's guarded mines. A player can purchase their own, at these locations:

• Southwest of NCR.
• Southeast of San Francisco.
• West of Klamath.
• Southwest of Junktown.

Mining

Player can mine by himself by using Primitive Tool or Sledgehammer on the rock piles that contain resources.

Alternatively, you can command your slaves to mine for you, strangely, they don't need any tools for that.

You can find more informations about mining in Wichura's Hammer Time! rookie miner's manual on the forum. (Hope this is still up to date.)