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Mining | Professions: The Miner

Mining

Ore to Ingots | Colored Ore | Mining for Stone and Sand

Ore to Ingot Conversion
Ore	Weight	Ingots Produced upon Successful Smelt
Two small piles	2 * 2 stones	1 ingot
or One medium pile	7 stones	1 ingot
One large pile	12 stones	2 ingots

Colored Ore and Ingots

Mining skill :

Ore & Ingots Armor Color Min.
Skill Smelt
Chance Armor Weapons Spawns

Iron - 100% - 100% Physical Damage
50%

Dull Copper 65 100% +6 Physical Resist
+ 50 Durability
-20 required Str
100% Physical Damage
+100 Durability
-50 required Str 11.2%

Shadow 70 100% +2 Physical Resist
+1 Fire Resist
+5 Energy Resist
+100 Durability
80% Physical Damage
20% Cold Damage
+50 Durability 9.8%

Copper 75 100% +1 Physical Resist
+1 Fire Resist
+5 Poison Resist
+2 Energy Resist 70% Pysical Damage
10% Poison Damage
20% Energy Damage 8.4%

Bronze 80 90% +3 Physical Resist
+5 Cold Resist
+1 Poison Resist
+1 Energy Resist 60% Physical Damage
40% Fire Damage 7.0%

Golden 85 80% +1 Physical Resist
+1 Fire Resist
+2 Energy Resist
+40 Luck
-30 required Str 100% Physical Damage
+40 Luck
-50 required Str 5.6%

Agapite 90 70% +2 Physical Resist
+3 Fire Resist
+2 Cold Resist
+2 Poison Resist
+2 Energy Resist 50% Physical Damage
30% Cold Damage
20% Energy Damage 4.2%

Verite 95 60% +3 Physical Resist
+3 Fire Resist
+2 Cold Resist
+3 Poison Resist
+1 Energy Resist 40% Physical Damage
40% Poison Damage
20% Energy Damage 2.8%

Valorite 99 52% +4 Physical Resist
+3 Cold Resist
+3 Poison Resist
+3 Energy Resist
+50 Durability
40% Physical Damage
10% Fire Damage
20% Cold Damage
10% Poison Damage
20% Energy Damage
1.4%

Mining issues:

Valorite Ore is hardest to find, Iron Ore the easiest. A miner with a high mining skill is more likely to find a colored ore vein than less skilled miner.
Once a miner discovers a vein of colored ore, that color ore will always spawn at that spot, no matter who goes to dig there.
When a miner reaches the minimum required mining skill and is mining a colored ore vein he has a 50% chance of actually digging up the colored ore.
Over all a miner digs the same amount of ore on all spots, he only gets more or less colored ore depending on his skill.
Mining colored ore seems to improve skill a little faster than normal iron ore.
Smelting colored ore into ingots improves mining skill much faster than doing normal iron ore.
Mining Tools:

A brand new shovel or pickaxe will yield 51 pieces of Ore before it breaks.
Gargoyles and Stone Gargoyles sometimes carry "a gargoyle's pick axe", that says "a large pick axe of ore extraction" when IDed. These pickaxes extract the double amount of ore before they break. These pick axes promote a colored ore vein to the next higher level. A bronze vein will give gold ore, a verite vein will give valorite and so on. This only works on colored ore veins and does not permanently change the type of vein. There is a possibility that an Ore Elemental will spawn. Miners beware, these monsters are extremely tough.
High quality mining tools, such as the sturdy pickaxe, sturdy shovel and gargoyle's pick axe can be obtained by blacksmiths turning in a completed Bulk Order Deed. Sturdy digging tools yield 153 pieces of Ore before breaking.
Smithing issues:

A smith cannot use the colored ingots unless he has the required skill for that color.
If a smith has the minimum skill requirement for a color, the success on smithing seems the same, even on exceptional quality plate chests.
Only metal armour and shields can be made in color, not weapons.
Smithing colors advances your smithing skill at a normal rate.
Miscellaneous:

As most newbie smiths have a lower smithing than mining skill they will often want to sell or exchange the easy colors, so the supply up to gold or agapite should be pretty good.
Tinkering works the same on normal and colored ingots, the result is the same.
Thanks to Dymos, GM-Smith of the Cove's Merchants and Craftsmen (CMC) on Chesapeake for most of the information on colored ore and ingots.
Thanks to Elowyn of Moonglow for pictures of the different colored armor sets.

Mining for Quality Stone and Glass-Quality Sand

To learn how to mine for stone a GM Miner must read the book"Mining for Quality Stone"
To learn how to mine for glass a GM Miner must read the book "Find Glass-Quality Sand"
These skills do not cost any skill points, and have no effect on the skill cap
The books can be bought from Gargoyle Alchemists and Stone Crafters in Ver Lor Reg, the Gargoyle city in Ilshenar.
Each book costs about 10,000 gold
The books will be destroyed after it has been read by a GM Miner
You can use both books on the same miner, reading the second one will not make you forget the first one
Miners that have learned how to mine for glass and/or stone will still be able to mine regular ore
A handy method to switch between digging for granite and digging for ore is to lock the mining skill at 99.9 and then wear blacksmith gloves if you want to dig for granite.

Stone
Granite comes in all different shades, just as ore does
Granite weighs 10 stones
Ore spots have been pseudo-randomized, so expect it to be a little difficult to find things
Miners will continue to mine ore as they mine stones
Granite can be used for Stonecrafting

Sand
Sand can only be found on beaches and along some coast lines
Sand weighs 1 stone and does not stack
There appears to be roughly a 9% chance (9.04 to be more precise) to successfully dig up sand per attempt
The distribution of sand seems to occur in 8x8 resource grids that can be emptied out ("There is no sand here to mine.")
You can expect 6-13 samples per resource grid area (8x8)
Respawn times range from 10-20 minutes.
Sand can be used for Glass blowing

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