The Miners Alliance represented a collaborative organization, uniting different space mining guilds to collectively obtain resources from space.
Those who traded under the banner of the Miners Alliance were frequently seen at mining outposts and space stations. These stations were often under the control of corporate entities such as the Trade Federation, or law keeping groups like CorSec and the Royal Security Forces. They commonly purchased resources extracted from asteroids by smaller, unaffiliated mining operations.
The introduction of space mining within Star Wars Galaxies' second expansion, Rage of the Wookiees, brought with it several new stations. These stations provided players with the opportunity to sell the resources they had mined from asteroids.