| Common ore | Feldspar Crystals | Older guides and player comments may still use common ore for this basic refinery input. |
| Metal-rich ore | Platinum-Palladium Matrix / Iridosmine Nodules | Check the current item page before planning stockpiles. |
| Ice / water source | Hydrated Sulfide Matrix / Methane Ice Shards / Water Ice | Water Ice is the processed resource; the source materials appear in resource and recipe pages. |
| Organic / carbon source | Aromatic Carbon Veins / Primitive Kerogen Matrix / Tholin Nodules | These are current raw material names used by manufacturing data. |
| Technocores | Exclave Technocore / Synod Technocore | Use the Site List for known site sources and item pages for production usage. |