I am currently 73 mining with 1500 coal and am going to mine a total of 5.4k coal, 5.7k iron, and smelt 5.7k bars (The rest of the coal I intend to buy for approx. 900k) I should have 75 mining by the end of the coal, then smelting the bars will get me to 67 smithing (Halfway or so to 68 ) then I will become a member again and make cannon balls, a total of 22.8k c balls, selling at I believe 180 each for a total of 4100k - 900k costs is 3200k profit
I have already been mining for about a week, but I have been in the guild up until recently, now I mine in the wildy skel mine which is 2-3 times faster and doesn't have the distraction of mith which takes a long time to mine (relative to coal)
The results:
79 Mining - Current 73
70 smithing - Current 65
Alot more money tha I already have - Not yet achieved.
To see how much I have mined, and or smelted, please see the barsigs in my signature.
Gem log:
3 x Saphire
1 x Emerald
0 x Ruby
2 x Diamond
And I got 1 rune ore by killing a rock golem
I may mine an additional 800 coal or 1100 iron for lvl 77 mining (the 5.7k iron gets me to lvl 76 as is) this will also reduce costs.
UPDATE: I have decided to mine all 11.4k coal to get to 79 mining.
UPDATE: I may find a faster way to make money, buy the ores, power mine iron for exp (so i still get mining exp) then continue the rest as normal.