If you're looking to power-level mining from scratch and dont mind spending a few gold, you might find it worth it to just buy 2-3 stacks of copper ore and smelt it to get those first 40-odd skill points.
Spell
Smelt Copper
Physical
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Where can one find a forge?
´cause i´m a lazy player. I smelt 161 copper ore from 1 to 65
Tooltip
Allows the miner to smelt a chunk of copper ore into a copper bar. Smelting copper requires a forge.
Spell facts
SchoolPhysical
Cast time1.5 sec
EffectCreate Item
RangeSelf Only
Taught byMining (skill 1)
Spell ID2657
Datamined from the current retail build. Numbers that scale with level or stats are shown at their base value.
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