Mining: What you need to know in plain English

Mining Basics: What you need

The basics of mining are simple, to start mining you need the following:

1. At least one of your main professions as Miner, this can be added to your character by visiting any Mining trainer. 

If you already have two primary professions - none of which are mining then you need to unlearn one which you can do from your "Character" profile under "Skills". 

2. Mining Pick: this is used to dig up ores for Mining. 

3. Smelting: This is a skill known by all Miners and will increase your mining skill. Simply visit a forge and "Smelt" your heart away making your raw ores into bars of metal!

Mining Training: When to get mining training

Its always a good thing to know when to go to your Mining trainer to pick up some additional skills, so here are the key skill points of Mining in plain English.

• Apprentice Miner (No requirements)

• Journeyman Miner (Mining 50)

• Expert Miner (Mining 125 - Level 10)

• Artisan Miner (Mining 200 - Level 25)

• Master Miner (Mining 275 - Level 40)

• Grand Master Miner (Mining 350 - Level 55)

• Smelt Bronze (Mining 65)

• Smelt Tin (Mining 65)

• Smelt Silver
 (Mining 75)

• Smelt Iron 
 (Mining 125)

• Smelt Gold
 (Mining 155)

• Smelt Steel 
 (Mining 165)

• Smelt Mithril 
 (Mining 175)

• Smelt Thorium 
 (Mining 230)

• Smelt TrueSilver 
 (Mining 230)

• Enchanted Thorium (Mining 250)

• Smelt Fel Iron 
 (Mining 275)

• Earth Shatter 
 (Mining 300)

• Fire Sunder 
 (Mining 300)

• Smelt Adamantite 
 (Mining 325)

• Smelt Cobalt 
 (Mining 350)

• Smelt Eternium 
 (Mining 350)

• Smelt FelSteel 
 (Mining 350)

• Smelt Hardened Adamantite 
 (Mining 375

• Smelt Khorium 
 (Mining 375)

• Smelt Saronite 
 (Mining 400)

• Smelt Titanium 
 (Mining 450)

• Smelt Titansteel 
 (Mining 450)

• 1 - Copper

• 65 - Tin

• 65 - Incendicite

• 75 - Silver

• 75 - Bronze

• 125 - Iron

• 150 - Indurium

• 155 - Gold

• 155 - Lesser Bloodstone

• 165 - Steel

• 175 - Mithril

• 230 - Truesilver

• 230 - Dark Iron

• 245 - Small Thorium (could be lower)

• 255 - Rich Thorium

• 275 - Hakkari Thorium Vein

• 300 - Fel Iron

• 305 - Small Obsidian Chunk

• 305 - Large Obsidian Chunk

• ??? - Elementium Ore

• 325 - Adamantite

• 350 - Rich Adamantite

• ??? - Eternium

• 350 - Cobalt

• 350 - Nethercite Deposit

• 375 - Khorium

• 375 - Rich Cobalt

• 400 - Saronite

• 425 - Rich Saronite

• 450 - Titanium