Upon my return to EVE I have noticed one nagging detail that has been driving me nuts and ruining my suspension of disbelief.

I have noticed an error with regards to mineral mining which I'm hoping has logical reasoning behind it, otherwise I as an avid roleplayer am having a hard time imerging myself.

You see, I can't help but notice that the ore "Plagioclase" is listed as having a large quantity of pyrite in it when processed, but as I'm sure you're well aware Plagiocase has a mineral formula that ranges contains NaAlSi3O8 and/or CaAl2Si2O8 in various quantities.

The primary problem here is that plagioclase is a silicate and not a sulfide, and even were it to be a sulfide this still leaves the problem that an anion of the size of elemental iron already exists in plagioclase in the form of Aluminum.

In order for plagioclase to work as a source of pyrite, it would need to have a mineral structure of Na(Al, Fe)S2, featuring an M2 cation site with a variable chemical structure. Unfortunately, this is not a real mineral. The closest would be biotite, with a structure of K(Fe, Mg)3AlSi3O10(F, OH)2, but even this suffers from the lack of a sulfur component, and the hydroxyl would be hard to justify in space.

I'm sure this was a minor oversight during development, but I thought that I would bring it to your attention in case it wasn't already noticed. Please help correct this so myself and other roleplayers will not be left out in the cold when someone asks us the dreaded question "why are you mining that plagioclase?"

Thank you for your time.