Best place to mine is Fel Brit in the west guard zone area. You get twice the amount of ore you would otherwise and your safe from pk's. Oh and get 5 packies, leave them somewhere safe and then go through the moongate at brit and head northwest. Once in the safe zone, log out and back in to get your packies. there is several forges near the mountains near the farms. Just have 1 macro for Guards if a pk gets stupid (happened to me once and one call to guards got him guard whacked, lol). You can get every color of ore.