Mining
In order to mine you must use a Pickaxe or Shovel on a cave floor or mountainside tile. Ore may then be smelted by using it on a Forge or Fire Beetle. Be warned - If you fail to smelt you will lose 50% of the contents of your ore pile! The mining skill is also useful when practising the creation of smeltable items (which can be recycled back into usable Ingots, with the amount of ingots returned based on the Mining skill). While meaning you will get some other resources too like fire ruby or perfect emerald but actually they have no use yet. At the quest reward stone you can trade 200 questpoints for +20 mining gloves.
Training:
0-30: - Buy from NPC Miner [can be found in lost city)
30-120: - get a shovel hit to any mine and start digging (lost city has a portal to the big mine in malas)
Skill Table for Ore: minimum required skills - Note: higher skill will get you ore faster (less loses while digging)
0 mining skill - iron ore
60 mining skill - dull copper ore
65 mining skill - shadow ore
70 mining skill - copper ore
75 mining skill - bronze ore
80 mining skill - gold ore
85 mining skill - agapite ore
90 mining skill - verite ore
95 mining skill - valorite ore
100 mining skill - blaze ore
105 mining skill - ice ore
110 mining skill - toxic ore
115 mining skill - electrum ore
119 mining skill - platinum ore