It was reported that at some time the Ship Design minister had to be active for some of the ministers to work. I'm not sure if this is still the case despite a fix aimed at this area in v1.17...
Are there mines available for the mine layer?
The AI planetary minister is not that advanced yet. Some of the items you describe are long term AI goals I would like to work on.
The build lists do call for some of the resource enhancing abilities, but there are unlikely to be seen unless they happen to have the right colony type on a large enough planet. Not to say there can't be further optimization in this area...
