Mass Effect UNC: Valuable Minerals Light Metal Locations

Mass Effect has several "uncharted world" assignments for players to pick up and complete for bonus experience, credits, and memories.

One of these—and, arguably, the longest of them—is the Valuable Minerals assignment. Players can pick it up upon finding a deposit of a certain resource by either surveying a whole planet or dropping onto its surface with the Mako and investigating the physical resources, themselves. There are four types of resources to find: heavy metal, light metal, rare earth, and gas. The first three require 20 deposits to complete the assignment each while gases only need six.

UNC: Valuable Minerals Light Metal Locations

We've broken up the light metal locations according to whether players need to land on the planet or survey it from above.

Land (19)

• Argos Rho: Phoenix—Tuntau
• Armstrong Nebula: Grissom—Solcrum
• Armstrong Nebula: Tereshkova—Antibaar (x2)
• Armstrong Nebula: Gagarin—Rayingri
• Armstrong Nebula: Vamshi—Maji (x2)
• Artemis Tau: Macedon—Sharjila
• Artemis Tau: Sparta—Edolus
• Gemini Sigma: Han—Mavigon
• Hades Gamma: Plutus—Nonuel
• Hades Gamma: Dis—Klensal
• Horse Head Nebula: Strenuus—Xawin
• Maroon Sea: Vostok—Nodacrux
• Maroon Sea: Matano—Chasca
• Styx Theta: Erebus—Nepmos
• Voyager Cluster: Amazon—Agebinium (x2)
• Voyager Cluster: Columbia—Nepheron

Survey (15)

• Argos Rho: Phoenix—Vebinok
• Armstrong Nebula: Gagarin—Antirumgon
• Armstrong Nebula: Grissom—Zaherux
• Armstrong Nebula: Hong—Treagir
• Artemis Tau: Macedon—Asteroid
• Attican Beta: Theseus—Quana
• Gemini Sigma: Han—Patatanlis
• Gemini Sigma: Ming—Parag
• Hades Gamma: Dis—Nearrum
• Hades Gamma: Dis—Asteroid
• Hades Gamma: Farinata—Asteroid
• Hawking Eta: Century—Canctra
• Maroon Sea: Matano—Supay
• Styx Theta: Acheron—Grosalgen
• Voyager Cluster: Yangtze—Dregir

There are 34 light metal deposits in total, meaning that players should have ample opportunity to complete the assignment as long as they keep track of where they've been.