I'm not explicitely asking that mining beams have a sound effect (though if you have anything in the works, thats cool too!); rather, can a looped sound effect name be tied to the end point of a mining beam so that we can provide our own sound effect to this currently silent system? Even better if different colored beams had different effect names, but I'd be okay with just the one as well too.

Additionally, is there a way (off the top of *anyone's* head) to determine beam (or any trigger) start and end? I feel like it has been done... but I might be mis-remembering.

Clarifying question for "is there a way ... to determine beam ... start and end", do you mean the physical location/position/coordinates? Or when the beam is turned on or off? I don't have an answer either way, but I suspect the answers would be very different.

I meant when its turned on and when its turned off, my bad