Where to find Minerals and Materials

All of the craftable items in Mass Effect Andromeda require several types of Mineral or Material to complete the crafting recipe. There are three distinct groups of crafting resources that include Minerals, Tech Materials and Bio Materials.

In this guide you'll find a complete list of each of the minerals and materials in the game, together with locations where you can find them.

Minerals

To put it simply, Minerals must be harvested by the player using either the handheld Omni-tool or the mining drone from the Nomad (deployed via mining interface). Minerals typically appear off the beaten track so take time to explore the edges of the map for the telltale "clusters" of mineral deposits.

*Some Minerals cannot be mined and must be bought from vendors or found in crates, these Minerals have a blank location entry in the table below.

Mineral	Location
Aluminium	Eos, Kadara
Beryllium	Voeld, Kadara
Cadmium
Copper	Voeld, Kadara
Element Zero	Voeld, Elaaden
Fluorite
Graphite	Eoa, Elaaden
Iridium
Iron	Eoa, Elaaden
Lithium
Magnesium	H-047C
Nickel	Havari
Platinum	Havari, Voeld, H-047C
Silicon	Elaaden, H-047C
Titanium	Kadara, H-047C
Uranium
Vanadium	Eos

Tech Materials

Both Tech Materials and Bio Materials come from dead enemies, typically with the name of the material relating to the type of enemy. For example, the Kett Alloy comes from dead Kett whilst the Eiroch Fluid Sac comes from dead Eiroch.

Tech Material	Enemy / From
Angaran Meditation Crystal	Angara/Roekaar
Kett Alloy	Kett
Omni-Gel Canister	Milky Way Exiles
Remnant Polymer	Remnant

Bio Materials

Bio Material	Enemy / From
Eiroch Fluid Sac	Eiroch, Fiend
Remnant Core	Architect (Giant BOSS)
Renderable Plates	Adhi, Eiroch, Taurg, Galorn
Scale Fibers	Challyrion, Rylkor
Shell Filaments	Kaerkyn, Drall, Taurg, Echidna
Soft Chitin	Spitbug, Shemrys, Pallad