As a newly dedicated miner I'd be absolutely in support of some small expansion to a place like that. I could see myself easily putting in the work towards a ship capable of large scale mining and travel.
Just off the top of my head lets say I set out with around 1000T cargo, fill up on limpets and truck myself out to those pristine rings and come back with enough cargo to make the trip worth it. This could warrant the help of other commanders for protection as well as perhaps give mining a bit of a boost in interest, especially with the few powers that offer trade bonuses, even if its 5% when they're not in the top 3 powers, that would definitely come into its own effect given enough cargo to sell. Explorers and Miners could have a little thing going on and then of course pirates have some real loot to be looking out for. Who wouldn't be tempted by a few hundred tonnes of Painite?
Pretty view aside I'd be in support of this if the problem of a player base big enough for it and stations being built to facilitate were resolved. A quick suggestion regarding the stations however, how about something like Jaques station? They move about so whats to stop a station making a little voyage out there as a trial run? A community goal could easily come of that, if the economy booms and stabilizes with enough people going to and from the station back to the core area then it could stay. Just thoughts off the top of my head, I rarely post but this piqued my interest.
