Found my first bedrock ores (not that I am anywhere near being able to harvest them), and I was wondering, since it is a ways away from my base. Are there chunk loading properties to GT6 machines? Or in the future since I’m playing Vanilla GT6 will I have to hunker down for awhile to let it mine?

No I dont have any Chunk Loaders, you will need other Mods for that, like Railcraft or FTB-utils.