Mining is the dirtiest of jobs but still the most cash rewarding. Traveling throughout the world you will find nodes just waiting to be mined. With World of Warcraft mining, you can! Either selling the minerals on the auction house or using them for blacksmithing or
engineering, mining has a wide range of uses. The types of mineral veins are; copper, tin, silver, iron, gold, mithril and other rare types. The higher the zone, the rarer the vein that can spawn. When WOW mining, take note of the color the name when you mouse over.

- Gray - You cannot increase your skill by mining.
- Green - These mineral veins give you a fairly poor chance to increase your skill. You can still do it, but its going to take a lot of gathering/creation to up your skill with these mineral veins.
- Yellow - These mineral veins give you a reduced chance of increasing your skill. Its still pretty reasonable to try to increase your skills with these mineral veins.
- Orange - These mineral veins give you your best chance of increasing your skill. For many of the Professions making an orange item will always increase your skill.
- Red - you cannot mine it yet. You need a higher mining skill. Smelting also helps raise your mining skill. Just go to a forge, click the smelting icon, and smelt all the minerals down to bars and you are done. To smelt higher types, you need to talk to your trainer and learn them at the appropriate level.