Making Mining Borgs useful again?

[BaneOfGiygas]

I think that one of the problems inherent with mining borgs stems not from the actual capabilities of the mining borgs, but just from the way that the mining department is set up: Once you have one person working at the magnet, you really don't need anyone else to do actual mining, because that's the only place where mining ever happens. The existence of human miners renders mining borgs, for the most part, completely redundant, and vice versa. While I definitely agree with giving mining borgs a more useful toolset, giving them more places to mine is also a solution.