The ore sold in stations is completely useless for any purporse right now. Either make it useful, or have the stations also sell the Premium and rare ore.

It makes no sense that umpteen millions of CU's of premium mined ore is sold by players to stations and never do the stations sell it back.

Some suggestions:

1) Make premium ore purchasable at a premium price... and leave the rare ore as minable only
2) Change manufacturing requirements to accept either X amount of premium ore or 3X amount of non-premium ore
3) Remove ore from buyable station commodities
4) Make some type of market exchange system or bulletin board that players can use to more easily transfer ore / goods through, as has been suggested many times before
5) Make premium/rare ore available in stations, but such availability would be dependent directly on, and limited by how much players have sold there.

I'm all for this, but first they need to make it so that stations have limited quantities of any given commodity.

+1 to being able to buy useful ores
+1 for scarcity

I'd say remove the idea of "premium" ore in the first place. All it does is confuse newbies who don't realize there's mined ore and a trade widget with the same name.

Maybe stations should sell "refined" ore instead?

1+ to renaming all in-station ores to 'refined ore' to remove confusion

I disagree with calling station sold ore Refined Ore.

Some of the station sold ore's are used in Trading Guild - Procurement missions. So I wouldn't call them entirely useless. Trust me... I'm a trader.

heh, touche Inevitable. Your trading prowess is well known.