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So, I discovered the issue with Windows 10 not recognizing the ASUS ThunderboltEX 3 card.
With the ASUS motherboard came a Windows CD ROM, with all sorts of drivers. I booted into Windows, loaded up the ASUS drivers, and rebooted. THEN I tried to install the ASUS firmware updater, and it worked perfectly. Windows detected the TB card in the system tray.
NEXT step was booting into High Sierra, and with the OsxAptioFix2Drv-free2000.efi loaded into my EFI folder, MacOS booted fine. However, in the System Report, Thunderbolt still shows "No hardware was found" - however, based upon other comments in this forum, a TB device has to be PLUGGED IN for it to come to life.
I'll be running off to Best Buy soon to "borrow" a TB3 disk drive, and see what happens. Stay tuned.
Okay, thanks. Earlier this morning, Clover was updated (see Home page) so I wonder if that will improve things for fresh builds. On my Windows 10 build, both the BMD MultiDock 2 and the UAD Apollo showed up as distinct items on the two TB3 ports; 2x 1 meter Apple TB Cables and Apple TB2 to TB3 dongles. On my real 6,2 Mini these cables show as: Thunderbolt 2 cable firmware version 1.0.16, Link Controller Firmware Version: 0.14.0.