Even one player as devoted as you are is enough to ruin your mining business.
That may be true, as Ive said I might have been lucky so far, but what I have seen is that every guarded mine on the east side of the map is crowded, and emptied, but whenever I went to the west side Ive found empty mines full of resources.
Ive suggested the SF mine because I think a lot of players only stick to the eastern mines, and don't check the western ones.
Ive been to the SF mine lots of different times and yes, sometimes it was a little emptier but Ive always found enough ore. Now I'm not saying its never been empty (I myself never found it empty) I'm only saying that a lot of people stick to one or two mines, and give up when those are empty (Junktown, and NCR mines usually are)
So the problem is the distance you to travel to get to mines, not the amount of resources the game has. This is of course only my opinion, but I say these things based on what Ive experienced in mines.
