How to harvest resources from a gas giant?

Yesterday i was playing a bit of Aurora 4x, and among other resources, there's one called Sorium, which is then refined to produce fuel for starships. Sorium is found on gas giants, or super jovian planets, which are defined as extremely large gas giants.

I was wondering: how could a spaceship capable of interplanetary travel move between a base and a gas giant, dive in its atmosphere, gather the Sorium and get back?

I reckon a gas giant has usually a thick atmosphere, high pressure and a much stronger gravity than say, Earth.

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