I think the Advanced Miner II/ Pulverizer is still the better route with most stuff.
for most cases where you want the main resource of the ore, yes. The sag mill is case to case, like if you pass iridium ore on it you "can" get osmium ore, them wash it with the leafs/comb and end with 4 ores, while doint it on the normal way would require more than just a few blocks (but it is not that much usefull because is heavily nerfed).
One thing I really love about this modpack and about GregTech is how all materials seem to have a use somewhere
nope, that is incorrect, gregtech is probably the mod with most useless ores and metal , gregoriust added those just because he wanted, it is blood aspen and the dev team of the pack that gave an use for some of the metals/ores.
You can also use an ender quarry to clean up a specific vein if you want. That will give the ore blocks.
also drone and something i will say below.
Hi! I'm novice in Infitech, but I really like infitech. There are resources on Mars that is not in the overworld? Why go to other planets?
moon, mars and the asteroids belt have a higher ratio of the uncommon ores than the overworld, so instead of find a ton of chaco/redstone/glauco/coal , you can find others more common , but is still a pain to actually go there only for that.
And, what are the first methods to mine in this modpack, after the usual picks? The quarry from buildcraft is off... drills like too. Sorry I'm novice in complex modpacks like infitech2 )) and sorry my bad English!
well my first "autonomous" minig type was railcraft tunnel bore, quite easy to get and set.
then I realized I don't have enough Gravel to make more Flint
cobble gen+forge hammer=gravel.
Since I know I cannot possibly ever use 712 stacks of Redstone Dusts, what should I do here?
you just answered your own question, i gain most of my redstone from crops, since 10 redstone = 1 ruby, 6 ruby= 1 chrome, it goes down pretty fast, more in the red alloy than ever, once you start AE and try to make bigger disk, it goes down hill.
on kirara we did not had the choice to make mercury solid and use it on thaumcraft as metallum, so i did use it to power the system that process the red field, so i gain power with the mercury.