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My suggestion is for a Mining Drone, it fly off to the nearest mine-able resource hacks away at it, then returns it to storage chest, slow? yes, amazing with 100 + drones? also yes

Such a feature is not planned as far as we know, but if you want to test it, there are a few mods that do things like that.
My favorite as a concept :
https://mods.factorio.com/mods/Afforess/LogisticsMining
and also :
https://mods.factorio.com/mods/judos/robotMiningSite

For a softmod version (intended for use on multiplayer servers with no download required) see: Nougat Mining: https://github.com/Brickcaster/factorio ... mining.lua