Mining

MINING:THE BASICS
Mining is one of the two first professions to do, with the best mining locations being at Western cave and The Den (more about those locations in locations). The ores in the game are iron, copper, gold, silver, wolfram, cobalt, platinum and rutile. It is recommended you grind mining alongside smithing, the two professions compliment each other.

MINING:LOCATIONS
All of the caves on the Isle of Rupert are Eastern cave, Western cave, The Den, James Bay cave, Misty glacier cave, Clifford's cave and Roy cave. All of the caves on Ellesmere are Horace's rest, Osprey cavern, Upper cavern, Ellesmere tunnel, Ellesmere cave, Depths of death, Carter's burrow, Shimmering cavern, Lower cavern and Shaman's pass. Rutile is exclusive to Ellesmere.

MINING:GEMS
Gems are rare items that can be put into brooches or capes, to obtain them you typically have to constantly mine a certain ore for an hour+. Different gems occur in different ores, in wolfram, onyx, amber and topaz spawn, these gems typically are difficult to sell. In gold, amethyst, sapphire, ruby and emerald spawn, these gems have good demand and will usually sell. In rutile, cobalt and platinum, diamonds spawn, they are worth good money and likely to sell.

MINING:HOW TO GRIND IT
When you go from apprentice to adept, you should just grind iron or copper, both found in Western cave iron gives you _ xp and copper gives you _ xp. However when you grind from adept to master, you may want consider an ore such as gold or silver.

MINING:CONTRACTS
In St.Paul there is the mining shop, with the NPC Homer Walters, you can buy a pickaxe from him and if you ask for work you can hand in ores, giving you a bit of money and levelling up your contract tiers, the mining contract tier is linked to the smithing one- you can interchange between the two to grind the tier one item, a prussian cavalry pistol. The tier two item, superior pickaxe (makes you mine faster). As well as the tier three item, round glasses.