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Ultima Online Mining Colored Ore and Ingots Chart
Ore & Ingots	Color	Min. Skill To Mine	Chance To Smelt	Crafted Armor Bonus	Crafted Weapons Bonus	Ore Spawn Rate
	Iron	0	100%	-	100% Physical Damage	50%
	Dull Copper	65	100%	+6 Physical Resist + 50 Durability -20 required Str �	100% Physical Damage +100 Durability -50 required Str	11.2%
	Shadow	70	100%	+2 Physical Resist +1 Fire Resist +5 Energy Resist +100 Durability �	80% Physical Damage 20% Cold Damage +50 Durability	9.8%
	Copper	75	100%	+1 Physical Resist +1 Fire Resist +5 Poison Resist +2 Energy Resist	70% Pysical Damage 10% Poison Damage 20% Energy Damage	8.4%
	Bronze	80	90%	+3 Physical Resist +5 Cold Resist +1 Poison Resist +1 Energy Resist	60% Physical Damage 40% Fire Damage	7.0%
	Golden	85	80%	+1 Physical Resist +1 Fire Resist +2 Energy Resist +40 Luck -30 required Str	100% Physical Damage +40 Luck -50 required Str	5.6%
	Agapite	90	70%	+2 Physical Resist +3 Fire Resist +2 Cold Resist +2 Poison Resist +2 Energy Resist	50% Physical Damage 30% Cold Damage 20% Energy Damage	4.2%
	Verite	95	60%	+3 Physical Resist +3 Fire Resist +2 Cold Resist +3 Poison Resist +1 Energy Resist	40% Physical Damage 40% Poison Damage 20% Energy Damage	2.8%
	Valorite	99	52%	+4 Physical Resist +3 Cold Resist +3 Poison Resist +3 Energy Resist +50 Durability	40% Physical Damage 10% Fire Damage 20% Cold Damage 10% Poison Damage 20% Energy Damage	1.4%

To learn how to mine for stone a GM Miner must read the book"Mining for Quality Stone"
To learn how to mine for glass a GM Miner must read the book "Find Glass-Quality Sand"
These skills do not cost any skill points, and have no effect on the skill cap
The books can be bought from Gargoyle Alchemists and Stone Crafters in Ver Lor Reg, the Gargoyle city in Ilshenar.
Each book costs about 10,000 gold
The books will be destroyed after it has been read by a GM Miner
You can use both books on the same miner, reading the second one will not make you forget the first one
Miners that have learned how to mine for glass and/or stone will still be able to mine regular ore
A handy method to switch between digging for granite and digging for ore is to lock the mining skill at 99.9 and then wear blacksmith gloves if you want to dig for granite.

Granite comes in all different shades, just as ore does
Granite weighs 10 stones
Ore spots have been pseudo-randomized, so expect it to be a little difficult to find things
Miners will continue to mine ore as they mine stones
Granite can be used for Stonecrafting

Sand can only be found on beaches and along some coast lines
Sand weighs 1 stone and does not stack
There appears to be roughly a 9% chance (9.04 to be more precise) to successfully dig up sand per attempt
The distribution of sand seems to occur in 8x8 resource grids that can be emptied out ("There is no sand here to mine.")
You can expect 6-13 samples per resource grid area (8x8)
Respawn times range from 10-20 minutes.
Sand can be used for Glass blowing

Mining notes:

Valorite Ore is hardest to find, Iron Ore the easiest. A miner with a high mining skill is more likely to find a colored ore vein than less skilled miner.
When a miner reaches the minimum required mining skill and is mining a colored ore vein he has a 50% chance of actually digging up the colored ore.
Over all a miner digs the same amount of ore on all spots, he only gets more or less colored ore depending on his skill.
Mining colored ore seems to improve skill a little faster than normal iron ore.
Smelting colored ore into ingots improves mining skill much faster than doing normal iron ore.

Mining Tools:

Gargoyles and Stone Gargoyles sometimes carry "a gargoyle's pick axe", that says "a large pick axe of ore extraction" when IDed. These pickaxes extract the double amount of ore before they break. These pick axes promote a colored ore vein to the next higher level. A bronze vein will give gold ore, a verite vein will give valorite and so on. This only works on colored ore veins and does not permanently change the type of vein. There is a possibility that an Ore Elemental will spawn. Miners beware, these monsters are extremely tough.
High quality mining tools, such as the sturdy pickaxe, sturdy shovel and gargoyle's pick axe can be obtained by blacksmiths turning in a completed Bulk Order Deed. Sturdy digging tools yield 153 pieces of Ore before breaking.

Smithing Notes:

A smith cannot use the colored ingots unless he has the required skill for that color.
If a smith has the minimum skill requirement for a color, the success on smithing seems the same, even on exceptional quality plate chests.
Only metal armour and shields can be made in color, not weapons.
Smithing colors advances your smithing skill at a normal rate.

Miscellaneous:

As most newbie smiths have a lower smithing than mining skill they will often want to sell or exchange the easy colors, so the supply up to gold or agapite should be pretty good.
Tinkering works the same on normal and colored ingots, the result is the same.