Could it be possible to in some way link the basic tutorial to the mining-one.

I was envisioning after you have trade introduced to them and you normally stop the tutorial to let this tutorial end in a miningstation and give a small hint in the standard tutorial to the miningtutorial. Something along the lines of: Since you have mastered the tradeingcareerpath, it is now time to introduce you to hte basics of mining. But this is reserved for another part of the tutorial which you can choose to do at any time of your choosing, but for convenience you can find it in this station and all the other miningstation variants. Have a nice time pilot.

It will help a lot in making all the options in the game clear. And will help newbies.

cheers