u/LionOfWise

That area has been inaccessible for a while - he teleported there from the digger.

For any less experienced captains out there, if you want to mine ore effectively it's best to take off any stone and soil above before mining into mountains - then you use the ore sorter way less often if you are working at this scale, and that can matter when moving a mountain. even skimming off soil first can save time and using the sorter too much. The new terrain tool makes planning this easier than ever. I have two teams on the Iron mine here - the ones on the lower left platform are mining for the smelters - the ones on the top are mining for ocean fill. I have another crew that removes dirt for the gas contract in places I plan to landscape before the rock crew arrives. The ore diggers are the last in but help out in clearing the future ore mining locations when storages are full.

How many rock will you move to get to that last ore? IDC it's getting buried - there are richer seams elsewhere. Just waiting on mega vehicles to build and this hill will be moved in no time.

I was thinking this would save me some materials but now I'm starting to wonder if it just speeds up the process... If that's all it does it's kind of pointless save for maybe getting in an extra half a lab of research without the cost of people/power.