-Complete list of mining locations and Ores-Follow

Platinum can be found solely in Palborogh Mines. This is the way i do things with pal mines. Ive been in there so much that i have the MP spawn points memorized so you just have to figure out the best path to run that will be a circit that you can run all day and cover the most points in the shortest amount of time. In pal, i am lvl 20 Blacksmith and i went all the way from 15-20 just mining up Iron ore and turning it into ingots. This made me a really nice profit as well. 200 for a pick axe and hopefully 1-2 iron per pick so 2 picks for 4 iron. 2 picks =400, iron ingot =2500 so its a nice profit margin. I honestly have not tried mining in Gusgen yet. I would rather not be killed and lose the exp just because i wanted to grab a little ore. IDK maybe i should try it. I actualy just love heading into Zeruhn mines and pulling out a ton of iron and making a pile of ingots. Usualy makes me a pretty good profit. (although i have a nasty habbit of spending it right away.) But there are alot of places to mine, many of these places can be over mined but dont give up. Just wait till a time with less people online and head on out. Its not like there isnt anything to do in this game, that if one place is too busy that you just give up and log. Go farm, or go level or even just go fishing. Grab a rod and a lure and head to pal mines and fish off the bridge. Who knows you might catch something. That way you can keep good tabs on how many people are around. Just keep mining and dont be a MP stealer. (Or the rest of us will be forced to drag you out into the street and tar and feather your nOOb a$$) :P No hard feelings.

This is the site I use for Mining/Logging points:

Mining Logging Harvesting Excavition MAP

It's a link I found off of Mystery Tour (http://mysterytour.web.infoseek.co.jp/ffxi/us/index.html) so I want to give credit where credit is due.

To answer some questions:

Mining/Logging/Harvesting points are visible to all and will respawn much like mobs. If no one gets there, it never existied. If someone uses it, it will come back after an unspecified amount of time.

Gear helps out a LOT. Get it as soon as you can. I feel as if I get better results with gear, but I KNOW that I have fewer hatchet/sickle/pickaxe breaks with the gear.

Some Advice:

The less dangerous the place is for those under 30, the more crowded it will be. Play nice. Just because some points have multiple strikes, don't stand there and "trade swats."

Take crystals with you to break down the unstackables into stackable items.

Be prepared to be there for a while - this is an endurance activity, not a sprint.

I have far more experience with logging, so perhaps I should claify.

I know logging points do die. Maybe this is far more likely to happen with logging since the points can be so far apart in a region. I've noticed that in a place like Junger or Bubu that the logging points, while spread out, tend to cycle through clusters in a "zone." (Our LS has done group logging, so we've experienced this firsthand.)

In order for the new zone to be active, the old logging point either needs to be used or die. I've also experienced finding a logging point in both of these zones - only to get to it, start my hatchet macro & have the logging point go away when no other loggers are around.

General notes on all items:

Ifrit's Cauldron CAN be mined safely and successfully if you know what you are doing, and are alert and safe at all times. I've been mining it on and off for over a month now, and while I have died several times, each and every time was due to a direct mistake that I made. It is dangerous - there's no real questioning that.

Don't bother going there unless you take several (4-5) stacks of pickaxes, a stack of silent oil, and at least a stack of prism powder, and don't go there unless you have a whm or rdm at 25+. A NIN sub helps as well, for Tonko, in which case bring plenty of shinobi-tabi, but isn't strictly necessary (I don't have it, and I still do just fine).

Get a map of it (plenty of links posted already), learn it, understand it, and use it - pick a route where you hit all the mining points, though if Ifrit's is busy and you're not feeling particularly limber you can sometimes get away with camping a few of the more packed, closer potential spots. I wouldn't go there without mining gear.

The majority of the spots are easy - just make sure a bomb isn't passing by, cancel your invisibility, and mine away.

For the spots that are more heavily guarded, with bombs nearby, don't panic - these are still mineable. Just wait until a bomb has JUST stopped moving, and is facing away from you, cancel your invisibility, and mine three or four strikes, quickly. Then just run away from the bomb to a point where it's safe to cast, or use a prism powder. Cycle rinse repeat until the MP is gone.

Make sure you have sneak, invis, tonko, silent oil, and prism powder all macrod. If you don't, your hamstringing yourself.

Be patient and decisive, and you will eventually strike gold, or in this case, adaman.

You CAN get orichalcum ore there as well, which sells for around 90k on my server. It's extremely rare, though - I've only ever gotten one (as opposed to 10+ adaman).

You will die. But if you are patient, and smart, you will also eventually be rewarded.

I went into this Oldton Molvopolos place entered thru Gusgen Mine. Surprisingly i found some mining spot got some iron and copper but i only found 3 mine spot.

I tried to went further in but i got agro by bomb. Use scroll of insta warp.

So just wanted to know has anyone mine here before and wat kinda ore is ther .....

Good new for miner i think no more packed gusgen mine,,,,,

i mine in Oldton movalpolos and its pretty fun... at 61 you dont get any agro there

i got:

copper ore
tin ore
zinc ore
iron ore
silver ore
igneous rock
darksteel ore
gold ore
platinum ore
(yes all 3 of them and more than once)
moblin mask
moblin mail (2,5k-3k on ifrit)
moblin helm (2k on ifrit)
moblin armor


pretty nice i make about 90k with 6 stacks of pickaxes there

mining points do die, i used to mine in zeruhn quite a bit when i was lvling smithing to cut down on cost, and i have many times been running up to a spot and seen it disappear. As to whether or not worker gear increases your chance of getting rare ore, i'm not sure, but it certainly decreases your chance of breakage, and that lowers the chance of one possibility, so the others must go up to keep the % at 100.

Necroposting is not cool.

Flagrant necropost.

you do get Colored stones from Yugott Grotto i got a Translucent (iceday) Green (winds) and a Purple (thunders) while in Yughott Grotto, too bad they are all 1k on Cerberus i just thought id confirm that

Edit: Found out how to do quotes...

Edited, Mar 2nd 2007 5:23am by Sucanan

trust me there not wrong it is there just realy hard to get i have goten it twice in my 3years of minning and i am a good minner i know all the spots the best places and the best gear its just a lot of hard work luck and time.

though a necropost......

Yes you can dig colored rocks in yughot