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[TrueThanny]

I think the word "tedious" just about perfectly sums up the new mineral scanning in ME2, so I thought I'd post a few tips that may save someone else some time.

1)  Don't scan.  Obviously you can't follow this entirely, but don't scan every planet.  Scan only when you need the resources for an upgrade.  I stopped scanning at one point, and wrote down systems I'd explored (to discover "anomaly" missions) but not scanned, figuring on going back when I ran out.  I never did, and my list has 34 star systems on it.

2)  Find a pattern that works for you, and stick to it.  I prefer going up and down inside the longitude grid, moving over one line each time.  You might try staying on a single strip of latitude and rotating around the planet.  In both cases, it helps to have a probe down first, as a marker to know when you've gone all the way around.

3)  Don't bother launching a probe if you don't hear the scanner, or it's below three lines (the green scale lines on the scanner).  Those deposits get you only a few hundred at most.  Unless it's Element Zero, which is much rarer (by a factor of about ten) than the other resources, and should be probed at any level.

4)  You don't need to zero in on the deposit.  The probe harvests every resource within a certain radius of where it hits.  That radius is larger than the scan radius.  If you have two peaks close enough to each other, you can shoot one probe between them and get both.

5)  If you want to look for Element Zero in particular (to switch special powers, or retrain skills), it seems to be found more often on garden worlds (i.e. habitable).  There are also a few cases where the planet/asteroid description specifically mentions it.