you would figure they would have checked ALL the islands, instead of being Lazy and just the Gammas.

It would be really helpful if you could tell the type of the mineral (I was able to figure out the island).

Yeah we have the tools, it's just easier to check one mineral instead of all of them.

But I have to say that your scan result is valid, although I see why it can be confusing.

It points to two different fields and the one to the north is the closer one when scanning from the eastern part. Neither of them are in the water.

The other field in the north was detected in Nov-24, at the coordinates 1251,1285, and from my last scan coordinates in the picture (800,1740) the north field is 6450 meters away, Hillmanoc teleport (502,1527) is 3670 meters from the last scan point.

Tell me more about closest distance!.

http://i.imgur.com/sj8snM5.png

...and YOU ARE WRONG!, the CLOSER ONE when scanning from the eastern part is another field in the mid-south at 4700 meters from the last scan point.

Yes, some bug is there, as if the northern field would get some kind of priority within a certain radius. We're looking into it.