— In order to start mining Cadmium, you should be able to spot a few of the quite distinctive red deposits as soon as you start to descend on your ship.

 — To get Cadmium, you will first need a Cadmium Drive installed in your ship. This can be unlocked at the Space Anomaly, specifically at the Starship Research Station. Spend the Salvaged Data required to unlock it, and take a …

Crafting. Cadmium is used as an ingredient for crafting the following products: Amplified Warp Shielding -- Warp Hypercore x1 + Quantum Computer x2 + Cadmium x250 → Amplified Warp Shielding. AtlasPass v2 -- Cadmium x200 + …

 — To get Cadmium in No Man's Sky head to your Galactic Map. Now you'll need to warp to a red system using your Cadmium Drive. Scan planets and then mine Cadmium, easy!

 — Cadmium Drives. Cadmium metals are hiding out on red solar systems: one of many color coded star systems in No Man's Sky. To get to these red planets and that precious Cadmium, a Cadmium Drive is necessary. Go to the Anomaly and purchase one, but that's not all.

A small amount of cadmium can be obtained from the byproducts of lead and copper refining. Some metallic cadmium is found along the Vilyuy River basin in Siberia. MINING: Cadmium-containing ores are extracted using both …

The primary ore of cadmium is the zinc mineral sphalerite - in which cadmium is often a small, but significant, impurity. Deposits of Cadmium Hide. This map shows a selection of deposits that have latitude and longitude coordinates recorded. Click on the symbol to view information about a locality.

A Deep-Level Mineral Deposit is a Hotspot location on a planet that is a prime location for Base building. You must install a Survey Device in your Analysis Visor and enable Surveying Mode to find hotspots on planets. The extraction rate depends on whether the spot is C, B, A, or S class.

 — Mining and Refining: Cadmium ore is typically extracted alongside zinc, lead, or copper ores. The process involves ore preparation, flotation, concentration, roasting, reduction, condensation, and refining to obtain high-purity cadmium metal.

Cadmium is mined and then released into the environment mainly through the air during smelting. Once in the environment, cadmium moves easily through the soil and is taken up into the food chain. Certain plants, such as tobacco, rice, other cereal grains, potatoes, and other vegetables, take up cadmium from the soil.