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I suspect it's simply a bug in the mined amount calculation.

asteroid resource extraction value: number mined by civilian(amount 75)/standard(100)/industrial(300)/hypothetical mining device with amount 500:
1: 0/1/101/103
2: 1/2/103/107
5: 3/5/109/119
10: 7/10/119/139

That scaling makes no sense at all.

Changing data\scripts\devices\ModuleMining.js line 71 from

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total_amount = Math.floor( 100 + (amount - 100) * Math.pow( (1.0 - extraction_diff/50.0), Q) * extraction_diff );
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total_amount = Math.floor( ( 100 + (amount - 100) * Math.pow( (1.0 - extraction_diff/50.0), Q) ) * extraction_diff );

notice the extra brackets

changes the extracted amounts to this:
1: 0/1/2/4
2: 1/2/5/9
5: 3/5/14/24
10: 7/10/29/49

So a industrial miner takes twice as long as a standard and gets 2~3 times as much instead of always getting 100+.