Hi, I hope you won't mind the comparison but this mod reminded me of the non-2.0 https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Coverup-Fixed
Which is possibly the most elegant solution to this classic issue. Would you considering integrating this style of ore patch covering as a config option in your mod?

Something similar to that would be doable, though I'm not sure when I'd get around to implementing it. If someone were to contribute such a feature I'd certainly accept it though. There are certain weird edge cases where you wouldn't want to do that though, namely in Py there are little dinos that you can get to mine a certain ore that actually move faster if you put floor over (under?) the ore, as silly as that is.