Help

I just started a new world on IC2. I found a village and in the chest was a sapling and some new ingots, a bronze pick, and bronze pants. After mining for an hour or so, I had discovered no new ores or anything new whatsoever, aside from the stuff in the village chest. I did, however, find a HIGHLY excessive amount of Iron. Are there any bugs or anything than anyone knows about that might tell the game to spawn all new ores as iron? My mining journey covered pretty much everywhere, including down to about level 10.