Me and Teme started on our trek, traveled south-westerly for a few hours (no mines - will not accept I told you sos), teme had to go to school so we just set up a claim with all our camp stuff. Hopefully we'll find a nice place tomorrow. We're no longer just looking for mines to settle at as we realise that finding unmanned mines is hard (we always did, we just want one badly) so we're just going to look for mines as well as look for a nice hearthland area to start the settlement at. Ever are good places to start.
EDIT: I went past your settlement the other day :D