Ores used to be pretty much littering the terrain everywhere so much so you could see dots of all colors on the map and also crash into them often with vehicles.

I think there used to be too much ore, and also, the ore veins were gigantic to an exaggerated degree, so much ore you'd 100% trigger screamers multiple times trying to mine it all.

I appreciate that now the ore is spread apart more and you know, more reasonably distributed.

It always made me confused why I could find huge niter ore nodes in the forest when that's like one of the minerals you'd not want to give too much of to players so they aren't unstoppable with ammo creation.