You need to improve your mining skill.You will need to be level 20+. Go to your mining trainer and get him to teach you Expert mining and any Smelting skills you do not have. I think theree is a gap between 140-155 where nothing that you smelt will give you skill ups. You just have to mine instead for the skill ups.
Edited, Oct 31st 2006 at 1:18am PST by magret