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for some strange reason that specific colony of mine won't allow me to go online(I have no idea why not). besides that it isn't exactly very economical... especially considering the ridiculous prices that some folks use.

You can make nice self-replenishing crystalline "farms"...
Layout like this.
R R R R R R R R R
R F C C W C C F R
R C C W C W C C R
R C W C C C W C R
R W C C C C C W R
R C W C C C W C R
R C C W C W C C R
R F C C W C C F R
R R R R R R R R R
where:
F = Regolith Furnace
C = Crystalinne
W = Wall
R = Road

The harvesters can freely get to the outside ones by the furnaces and some of the inside ones diagonally, but not all, your "seed" in the center will be safe.
They might sometimes glitch to inside the wall but if you go off screen a bit they'll come out again(without cleaning out your "seed"). Layout a few of theses for the harvesters to move between and crystalline won't be an issue anymore.

I would imagine that the difficulty would be in the amount of layers you need to get through to produce steel (crystalline > regolith > ore > steel = hard). Not in the continuous disruption of having to go re-layout mines every 5 minutes.

Is it possible to put a rebuild toggle on depleteable buildings such as mines(off by default of course), were it would drop a new build template once the mine is used up.
It would certainly make working with the micromines a lot less painful, they take a lot of micromanaging to have a decent supply of regolith coming in.
And if we can get it on the crystalline and trees too(only from the planted parent not the grown ones), they would act as permanent reseeders once a field has been cleared.