Flux-Capacitive Mining is the primary extraction technique used to harvest Chronosite from the bedrock of Xylos. Traditional drilling is ineffective against Chronosite due to its extreme hardness and tendency to explode when struck with kinetic force. Instead, Flux-Mining uses intersecting beams of sonic resonance to vibrate the mineral loose from the surrounding rock.
The process is highly dangerous. The sonic frequencies used can destabilize the local spacetime manifold. To prevent this, mining rigs must be equipped with Harmonic Shielding. If the shielding fluctuates even by 0.01%, the miners risk contracting Temporal Sickness or triggering a localized dissonance event.
The technique was refined by Yancy Halloway, who patented the specific frequency modulations used today. Independent miners often try to "jailbreak" their mining rigs to bypass Halloway's safety limiters and extract ore faster, a practice that leads to hundreds of fatalities annually.
Environmentalists argue that Flux-Mining is the primary cause of the increased volume of The Whispering Skies, claiming the planet is "screaming" in response to the extraction.