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I hope i can explain it so you all can extract.  There is what i call a 'Server Wave'  This is something in the servers that causes the extractros to sit down every 5:30-6:40 mins
You can learn the timing and learn to reset your extractors before the wave goes by.  Everyone on the server gets the same wave at the same time for every extractor.
If by chance you dont reset your extractor, and therefore save the items in it, the wave will wipeout what seems like3-4 minutes of extracting (sometimes more) and you will end up with next to nothing in your extractors.
 
I follow these steps.  I use a stopwatch program on my pc with a lap marker.  Every wave i hit the lap and start counting a new wave.
If i have a extractor or 10 out when the wave is approaching i go and reset each extractor and wait for the wave to hit.  Once it hits i set my lap and go turn back on each extractor.  Sure when you have 10 laid out this is a pain and takes 2 minutes of the next wave.  But when u have 1 or 2 laid out this is nothing.
Depending on the number of extractors i start reseting at different times.  1-2 i reset at 5:30.  3-5 5:00  5+ 4:30  Using this method i can get a good amount if not all the claim done before i move on to another area.
MORAL:  DO NOT leave your extractors out when u log off, they are pretty much going to get nothing and your jsut wasting repairs on them.  pick everything up jsut before the next wave hits.
it's gnarly dude!

All's clear with the No Marker system, it's a new feature.

I am lost now, is mining working or is it not working? Can the developers not give some clarification on this so we know what is going on with the U.G mining these days...

Good question!
Might be a bug, might be a feature or something inbetween - a new feature that's not working as intended yet.
We will figure it out, eventually. *looking at Dale* ...  lol

Just to be sure I understand this correctly, if an extractor stops running on its own you lose anything it had extracted since the last time you activated it??

If this is the case it better be a bug! I'm glad that extraction time is no longer in the range of 24 hours or more, but this reset thing is even worse in my opinion. Spending so much AWD and time being able to craft my own extractors along with the time and AWD needed to craft each one is understandable. Making it so that they have to be continually baby-sat is unacceptable. I don't like wasting AWD, time, and the very resources I'm trying to collect simply because I have to go to the bathroom, make a sandwich, or talk to my wife and kids for a few minutes.

it better be a bug.....

yes i saw the glitch. i hope this isn't on purpose...