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Ore Generation
Note that some of these methods are best paired with automated ore generation covered here.
Quarrying and Automated Mining
PneumaticCraft: Drone Quarry
Programmable Drones can do most anything. Given a tool and some time, they can dig an enormous hole. Of course, they also prove a bit of finesse in that they can be programmed to do exactly what the task requires. For instance, digging up only ores while replacing Stone for the various ore generation methods that create in world.
Mekanism: Digital Miner
The Digital Miner is great for a quickly mining up the ores in an area, however it's limited by two key factors. First, it only covers an area of about 32 blocks. Second, it cannot automatically re-scan and re-mine an area: it must be turned back on by a player. This means that while it's great for getting what's already in the ground, it's less useful for automation.
RFTools: Builder
The Build is a multi-purpose block with various shape cards to help, well... Build. But it can also clear the blocks in a rather substantial area with a Quarry Card. Combined with a filter and it's ability to repeatedly scan an area makes it ideal for automation as well. One could be used to, for instance, place a cube of Stone and another could be used to mine out any ores, both repeating endlessly.
Pedestals: Quarry Upgrade
The Pedestals Quarry Upgrade can also be filtered to mine up only specific blocks, and even though it's area is somewhat limited, it's large enough for automation.
Nature's Aura: Aura Field Creator
Two of these in a line will create a beam of focused Aura between them that can break blocks, making it a great tool for easily picking up the spoils of your magical ore generator. They are Redstone reactive, so a simple automated setup could have them off by default and enabled periodically to break whatever has been generated. This combined with an Imperceptible Builder to re-place Stone and a Hopper Enhancement to pick up the ore could create quite a nice little farm.
Placing a Silk Touch or Fortune Pickaxe in an item frame on one of the Aura Field Creators will also cause it to use those enchants while breaking.
Botania: Mana Lens: Weight
The Weight Mana Lens causes any blocks to be struck by the Mana Burst to fall as if it were sand. This means that any block can be easily picked up for processing by letting it fall onto a carpet over a hopper. Quite useful for pickup up gems to process them through a machine for a better yield.
Ars Nouveau: Spell Turrets
What can't these things do? Really, they're an incredibly versatile block. In this case, a Projectile > Break > Extract > Item Pickup spell on a Turret next to a chest would be a fantastic way to gather materials that have been generated. Every block it breaks would be automatically pushed into the chest.
Blood Magic: Ritual of the Crusher and Ritual of Magnetism
These two rituals combine quite nicely to handle the ores from the various generators above. With the Ritual of Magnetism, any ore below it is drawn up into the ritual area. The Ritual of the Crusher, which fits nicely in the same space, can then break those ores, even gaining bonuses depending on the Will infused in the area.