res aren't really for miners imho; an asteroid base with a shipyard in a pristine metallic ring on the other hand would be great.
RES means Rich Extraction Site. They are for miners. At least you see NPC miners there... And NPC Criminals attack them... You also have a lot of Security Force so if you mine and want protection you can be protected.
But of course you can go mine far away from RES, but i don't know if you have as much interesting materials and metals as in RES or Hazardous RES.
According to
this post RES or Hazardous RES are more for bounty hunters and indicate the difficulty of NPC criminals there. Oh well i always thought you had to go to one or the other. I learned something. But at least if you want to do both you can go mine in RES or Hazardous with a well equiped and engineered Anaconda.
For now it seems most of this outpost and station in Asteroid fields are just reasearch facilities or other things, but they are far away from the bubble.
I would find it beautiful to see an outpost or station inside Asteroid Field. Just for the look of it. It would kind of make CQC beautiful map inside the game.