Mass Effect 3 gets rid of the mining

Remember how the mining in Mass Effect 2 stunk? You turned a planet with your joystick and shot probes for minerals in what seemed like an eternity. It was so mind numbing dull that if you suffered from insomnia, it was a cure. Well PS3gens.com and XBOX World (March 2012; pg. 60) are reporting that there will be no mining in Mass Effect 3 and that has been replaced by a search and rescue system. What you do is go to conflict areas and rescue survivors. Good. That sounds like more fun than mining planets.