World of Warcraft Mining is a skill used to harvest and process raw metals and other deposits. All miners automatically gain the ability to track minerals which causes the location of nearby metal deposits to be marked on the games mini-map. A WOW miner must have certain level of mining skill to harvest a particular metal- cooper being the easiest and dark iron being the hardest.
These metals are very useful to sell to blacksmiths and engineers in their raw form. Mining is one of the best money making professions to adopt and is best paired with the Blacksmith or Engineer because you can then make very useful items out of the metal.
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