I think there needs to be either more ore rocks, or ore needs to regenerate a little faster.
That's the only issue I have. I have a bloody surplus of gunpowder right now because no one touches the minerals. Everyone just goes straight for the ores.
And I Get the job part.. I am at college (Different in the UK, and it's a different type of course, I'm 22) for pretty much most of the day and when I get home, due to time zones, everyone on the other side of the world is waking up, hence more players, hence more people grabbing the ores before anyone else can get to them.
Infinite ores would be a little stupid, no offence. Not a terrible idea, but if everyone could just sit there, with their brahmins or just on their own, mining away, stockpiling ore, then it'd cripple new players. Purely because there would be so many lower end weapons flooding both NPC and player markets, it'd be even harder to make caps than it already is.
I totally see where you're coming from however. It pisses me off no end when I need ONE more alloy to re-build the combat shotgun I lost because I was spawned too close to a vault city patrol for example, only to find no ores what-so-ever because people just grab and run, and I don't have the time or lack of a social life needed to sit there for 6 hours, counting down the seconds till the ore comes back.