I just started Monster and ran my first BC quarry. I got flight thru Advanced Genetics so I flew down there and grabbed as many diamond blocks (emeralds too obv) with my Tinkers' silky touch pickaxe as I could before the quarry got to em. Then I threw em in the TE3 pulverizer to double em. I ended up with 64 diamonds which is great. I highly recommend this boring approach (it was a very large 3x3=9 chunk quarry so I was running around down there for a while). LOL