To clarify the original post, the issue for me isn't a lack of copper. There's tons of copper in the world, plenty even for people like me who use a lot more than is "needed" for decorations and redundant tools and gear. How much or how little copper you actually need isn't the point.

For me, the issue is that I enjoy the whole concept of mining bases and roads for carts, but there's never enough copper in one place to make them worth the effort. 2-3 hours clearing trees, smoothing cart paths, ramps down into the pit, and building a functional outpost doesn't really make sense for the sake of a deposit that you can strip mine in the same amount of time without any of that. Real problem? No, just a missed opportunity, hence the wish list. :)

It's also a little annoying aesthetically for me personally, to have huge pits randomly around my local area. One mega pit with a structure and roads feels/looks better imo.

Unfortunately, I'm aware that an ideal fix for it is unrealistic, as I'd rather the deposits spread deeper rather than wider, and the bedrock limit just isn't deep enough to allow for that. Wider would still make me happy, but deeper would have been awesome. :)

(And no, sorry, but no matter how big you think the copper deposit you found is, I'm sure I've seen some of comparable size. If you think that's big, then it's just a matter of perspective. I've played the game enough to know how big the deposits are, and I dream of 10x bigger.)