Mate, I've been in this game for about 3 years. First I did some hunting in team, than started mining when I was left alone in game (my fiancee who I play with couldn't play with me). I discovered mining and this is what I do.
My avatar seems to be a miner, anything else I do sucks. I lost track of my mining HoFs (I know it doesn't sound good and I don't write it to show off, this is true)... I had tower, 1 more over 1kped tt, 4 or 5 over 600ped claims and lots of things between 250-500ped... rest I calculate as globals. I am usually mining unamped.
As for hunting, I did some team hunts and I hunt alone. I had 1 HoF in team of two on a drone - 900ped, my biggest single loot was 142ped on Warrior. It took me almost 2 years to hit first solo global in hunting and by that time I was not a fresh noob that just left the ladning place, believe me.
I can do Hogglos myself, I try to kill argos (can do all maturities), I kill troxes, traxes, ambus, feffs and if I hit one global for 2 weeks this is good. Most of my hunts end with 30-50% return rate which is later eaten by the decay. So when I do 100ped hunt I must be sure I can loose all I spend on ammo.
It seems hunting isn't for me. I loose peds on it like hell. When I go mining I make up for the lost peds
I think this is true that each avatar has some path it should follow and this path is the best thing to do for ava. I know people who love to hunt, but they loose on it and later they craft to make for the lost peds so they can go hunting again.
Some are born hunters, some are not. But I think that the number of bombs you dropped (if that is from the start) is just to small to say if you are a miner. What prospector and miner level are you? For me 10k bombs is something to drop within month or less. On
CND this would be 2 weeks or a bit less I think..... Dropping this number of bombs in such a long time means you did some mining trips, but did you get the knowledge of the good areas? Did you skill up to use better seekers like 211(L) at least?