The mining stations of the game Star Trek: Armada have the role of granting access to collected Dilithium for all players. Mining Freighters collect it from Dilithium Moons and transport it to the nearest mining station of the player. This makes the mining stations very often necessarily placed outside of a player's starting base and therefore making them an easy target, as they do not possess any own defenses aside from their shields. A freshly built mining station comes already with one freighter. At least two more are required to efficiently mine a moon. Depending on the relative positioning of moon and station even more may be required.

When producing a mining station of another faction (e.g. playing Klingon and stealing a Borg constructor) the freighter coming along with it will be of the original faction, not yours (here, Borg instead of Klingon). This of course makes no difference, if you are of that faction as well.

Depiction	Name
	Processing Node
	Mining Station
	Dilithium Refinery
	Mining Facility