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So I noticed after I mined all of my aluminium deposits, I noticed that the aluminium miners couldn't build aluminium mines and that only the alumi-bug could do this. Is this just a bug or is it something that got skipped over on accident?

I don't believe aluminium miners can build aluminium mines. If your map is out you can import it, the earliest/easiest way to do this is galactic freight or a uranium enrichment facility. Once you reach late game you can import larger quantities and/or build aluminium generators. Trace amounts can be acquired from recycling centres but not enough to be reliable unless you've got a lot of trash and recycling centres

I don't believe aluminium miners can build aluminium mines. If your map is out you can import it, the earliest/easiest way to do this is galactic freight or a uranium enrichment facility. Once you reach late game you can import larger quantities and/or build aluminium generators. Trace amounts can be acquired from recycling centres but not enough to be reliable unless you've got a lot of trash and recycling centres

I'm not sure why they can't build mines though, would make things a lot nicer

Not a bug, every planet have specif configuration, with different natural resource available. Different Race/culture have different technology, with different difficulty, in particular at the start, and different way to setup the map for compensate the natural resource.

If you can tell us the map and race/culture, we can tell you what you can do.

I know that each planet has a random amount of resources generated when it first gets made. I made a red planet and my colony is from the United Earth. I already have an alien tech generating aluminium. But my only complaint is that you can't build aluminium mines unless you start as the zolarg empire.

Human need mines only on the early game stage, but when you have unlock all tech, you will don't need mines anymore.

And don't waste much time for the alien aluminium generator, some time ago (last year) was the only way to generate aluminium, but not today, now we have much better building.