A Mining World is an Imperial planet rich in one or more of the raw strategic materials required by the Imperium's manufactoria and Forge Worlds. The people of Mining Worlds are likely to be slaves or penal workers of the Adeptus Arbites who live out their lives mining and transporting massive quantities of metallic ore, rock, minerals, frozen gases or some other useful, strategic or precious substance. Mining Worlds tend to be rather inhospitable places, and many do not even possess a breathable atmosphere, though a few may support a greater variety of life, developed cities and even hive cities.

Notable Mining WorldsEdit

SourcesEdit

• Warhammer 40,000 Rulebook (3rd Edition), pg. 115
• Dark Heresy (RPG), "Worlds of the Calixis Sector," (accessed from http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/)
• Imperial Armour Volume Eleven - The Doom of Mymeara, pp. 7-8