diff --git a/code/modules/mining/machinery/machine_unloading.dm b/code/modules/mining/machinery/machine_unloading.dm
index bbdd80e3d3a..91fc8f3fdee 100644
--- a/code/modules/mining/machinery/machine_unloading.dm
+++ b/code/modules/mining/machinery/machine_unloading.dm
@@ -45,6 +45,52 @@
 					var/ore_amount = BOX.stored_ore[ore]
 					ore_chunk.stored_ore[ore] += ore_amount
 					BOX.stored_ore[ore] = 0
+
+					//Icon code here. Going from most to least common.
+					if(ore == "sand")
+						ore_chunk.icon_state = "ore_glass"
+					else if(ore == "carbon")
+						ore_chunk.icon_state = "ore_coal"
+					else if(ore == "hematite")
+						ore_chunk.icon_state = "ore_iron"
+					else if(ore == "phoron")
+						ore_chunk.icon_state = "ore_phoron"
+					else if(ore == "silver")
+						ore_chunk.icon_state = "ore_silver"
+					else if(ore == "gold")
+						ore_chunk.icon_state = "ore_gold"
+					else if(ore == "uranium")
+						ore_chunk.icon_state = "ore_uranium"
+					else if(ore == "diamond")
+						ore_chunk.icon_state = "ore_diamond"
+					else if(ore == "platinum")
+						ore_chunk.icon_state = "ore_platinum"
+					else if(ore == "marble")
+						ore_chunk.icon_state = "ore_marble"
+					else if(ore == "lead")
+						ore_chunk.icon_state = "ore_lead"
+					else if(ore == "rutile")
+						ore_chunk.icon_state = "ore_rutile"
+					else if(ore == "quartz")
+						ore_chunk.icon_state = "ore_quartz"
+					else if(ore == "mhydrogen")
+						ore_chunk.icon_state = "ore_hydrogen"
+					else if(ore == "verdantium")
+						ore_chunk.icon_state = "ore_verdantium"
+					else if(ore == "raw copper")
+						ore_chunk.icon_state = "ore_copper"
+					else if(ore == "raw tin")
+						ore_chunk.icon_state = "ore_tin"
+					else if(ore == "void opal")
+						ore_chunk.icon_state = "ore_void_opal"
+					else if(ore == "raw bauxite")
+						ore_chunk.icon_state = "ore_bauxite"
+					else if(ore == "painite")
+						ore_chunk.icon_state = "ore_painite"
+					else
+						ore_chunk.icon_state = "boulder[rand(1,4)]"
+
+
 					if (i>=3) //Let's make it staggered so it looks like a lot is happening.
 						return
 		if (locate(/obj/item, input.loc))
diff --git a/code/modules/mining/ore.dm b/code/modules/mining/ore.dm
index ffceba6718d..3ceab8f7f94 100644
--- a/code/modules/mining/ore.dm
+++ b/code/modules/mining/ore.dm
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@
 /obj/item/ore_chunk
 	name = "ore chunk"
 	desc = "A conglomerate of ore."
-	icon = 'icons/obj/xenoarchaeology.dmi'
+	icon = 'icons/obj/mining_ore_vr.dmi'
 	icon_state = "strange"
 	randpixel = 8
 	w_class = ITEMSIZE_SMALL
diff --git a/icons/obj/mining_ore_vr.dmi b/icons/obj/mining_ore_vr.dmi
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..cea068ac708
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