Question about Computer craft turtles and scanners.

Hey everyone,
So I am a huge fan of IC2 miners, the only problem is I would like to make a way (Turtle program) to map out ore density's to better place the miners.

Before I dove into coding the full system I discovered that a turtle can use a scanner (It drains EU from the scanner) but I have no way of retrieving the value.
The reason I am posting this here is cause I am thinking that the problem lies in the way values are reported when using the scanner.

Has anyone ran into this problem/ resolved this problem?

Oh yea, I overlooked Misc Peripherals.
RichardG is a very busy person though, Have any suggestions for getting this to him?

Well its a support topic that evolved into a suggestion so i don't think he would complain.

Thanks for the feed back guy.