mines and mine sweeping

[gwichman]

i've got some questions regarding sweeping mines..

As far as i can see, it's impossible to see how many mines are in a square. I don't see any components that scan them (i.e. scanners) and moving a ship into the square doesn't tell you how many there were either. So that got me thinking..

If i build a mine sweeper that can only sweep 8 mines a turn, what happens if i move that shpi into a square with 16 mines in it? Does it sweep 8 and then blow up? Or does it sit there for 2 turns until it's swept all 16 and survive?

What if i build a mine sweeper and put it in a fleet of warships. Move the entire fleet into the square. Now what happens? Does my mine sweeper get to sweep 8 mines first, and then the remaining 8 start hitting my ships? Or does the whole fleet sit there while i sweep? Or perhaps no mine sweeping at all occurs.. all 16 hit?

Lastly is there any way to tell how many mines are in a square that i'm not noticing?

Thanks much!