BTW going back to OP: are you sure you didn't miscount? Every cat1 mission besides the one labeled bonus has given me 1 token, every cat2 has given me 2, and every cat3 has given me 3. Crafting always gives me 2 (and seems to be 40 ped tt input for each item).
I decided i'd try to do the lyst mining daily because it used to be like falling off a log to find lyst. After 50 drops on Eudoria i had about as much iron, blau and cumbriz as lyst.
Kind of gave up on the lyst one about halfway through due to poor tt return.