The Tools

    Pickaxe
    Small forge

Using the Mining Skill
        To use the mining skill, get a pickaxe or shovel and goto a cliffside. A common place that miners go is the mining area
    west of Britain inside the town guard area. There is a small forge near cliff there where you can smelt the ore you mine.
    To mine ore, simply double-click on the pickaxe or shovel in your inventory. A target cursor will appear. Now click on a
    cliffside to mine ore. The ore you mine depends on the level of your mining skill and where on the cliff you are mining.
    The greater the rarity the ore, the harder it is to mine, smelt, and craft things out of it. Just be sure to keep an eye on your
    weight when mining ore. Have a packhorse or two handy if you have this problem. They can carry 800 of the tiny chunk
    version ore. To convert larger chunks of ore into little ore, double click either of the two piles and then target the other one.

Smelting ore
        To smelt ore into ingots, walk up to a forge and double clikc on the ore you want to smelt, then target the forge. If you
    are successful, the ore will turn into a pile of ingots in your backpack. The following table shows the order from the most
    common to the rarest ore in Britannia.

Tips to GM mining
        When you reach about 80 mining, run along the mountain mining ore until you find gold, apagite, or varite (not until higher
    skill levels). Remember where these spots are and during you PH, mine directly from these spots. Convert all your stacks of
    large ore into small versions. If you smelt enough ore for 1 ingot at a time of gold, apagite, or varite ore, you will get mining
    gains because smelting ore calculates your mining skill. Use the following chart to help you see the different versions of ore.
 
 
 

Type of Ore	Iron	Dull Copper	Shadow	Copper	Bronze	Golden	Apagite	Varite	Valorite
Relative Rarity	Very common	8 times as common as Valorite	7 times as common as Valorite	6 times as common as Valorite	5 times as common as Valorite	4 times as common as Valorite	3 times as common as Valorite	2 times as common as Valorite	Rarest of all ore
Color	Silver	Grey	Black	Tan	Brown	Gold	Pink	Green	Blue

Related Skills
    Blacksmithy - Craft weeapons and armor from the ore you mine
    Tinkering - Create new gadgets and tools from thee ore you mine