Lets talk about: Helium-3 Mining.

[Dusty Lens]

The H3 mining system looks like it roughly follows the original plan layout which loosely orbited a concept of primary and secondary mining resources.

When approaching the issue from a perspective of cursed roleplay it's generally acquiesced that some companies handle multiple "ores". However you end up with an issue of over saturation of bonus' based on some infocards that don't really give a toss about the idea of player flow and regional population balances. So to balance that out you give the IMG a 'normal' mining bonus for the ore types that are primarily represented in their backyard and a reduced bonus for ores that they technically have access to but are in someone elses backyard in favor of the group that uses that mineral as their primary.

An example of this would be IMG having a reduced gold drop rate, as opposed to BMM, in order to recognize IMG/Molly risk/reward and the importance of making sure that the BMM remains viable.

Another obvious example would be what you see in the OP. The good rock busters with Kruger have a ton of good stuff to snatch up in their own backyards that is intended to give the locals something to worry about, leaving the GMG to do the same in their own backyard. Ideally there would be a nod to some kind of hopped up RP nonsense that enables some kind of drop bonus out of recognition for the fictional backdrop, but it should pale in comparison to that of the locals.

I don't know how much of this remains true. Given the nature of discover and the general theme of responsibility in the development team when I walked off I can only assume that certain faction values are all over the place and likely crafted to be hilariously self serving.