Originally posted by Terratrox:

Oh no I wasn't including transporting time. JUST to mine all that silver and move it to the ship was 8 or so hours. And I only managed about a cart full of silver, at that. I needed 2 or 3 carts full of the stuff in order to actually max out my silver gear.

Oh my god! You really did it.
For me the whole mining and transport thingy was done in 3 in-game days. Day to locate silver nodes and clearing enemies with only a bit of mining, another day to just mine and on the 3rd day transported all the goodies to my new base. Ok, ok, had done bit of scouting and killing while getting those eggs but basically 3 days were dedicated to getting that ore.

What gear did you make? Mine went to shield, bow and wolf cape.