UNC: Valuable Minerals

Assignment Summary
To maintain its fleets and continue to expand, the Alliance must find new resources wherever it can. You've recently surveyed an important deposit and claimed it for the Alliance. There must be more like them in the Traverse.

Acquisition
This assignment appears in the Journal after the first mineral you survey.

Bugs
There is currently a bug in which rapidly pressing the 'A' button upon discovery may lead to being able to survey the same mineral more than once.

Trivia
Relevant to polonium: Polonium-209 is the most stable isotope, with a half life of 103 years, but there is no obvious use for it in Mass Effect. A more radioactive isotope would be needed for the polonium rounds, for example Polonium-210 (138 days). Since even the most stable isotope of polonium (209) has a half-life of only about a century, on no world is a "polonium" deposit likely to consist of pure polonium. Rather, the deposit would have to be bismuth-208. In sulphrous worlds like Sonedma the specific mineral is probably bismuth sulfide (Bi2S3), alias bismuthinite.