Ores, Iron and Zinc sells pretty fast in Final Fantasy XI. Zeruhn Mines have many of these resources. Zeruhn is near Bastok City, you'll have easy access to the Bastok Mines, AH and your Mog House. Just an FYI again, the higher your fame the cheaper the pick axes will cost for you to mine.

To begin mining, you'll need mining gears, Field Tunica, Field Boots and Fields Gloves and of course at least 2 pickaxes. A stack of pickaxes would be ideal however. Copper ore and Tin sells for the least, you can drop those if you want to save room for Iron, Zinc and Dark Steel.

If you use ranged weapons in Zeruhn you will make mouse bat, ding bats and tunnel worms drop more than 1 item. You will probably collect some Zeruhn soots as well. They sell fast in the AH for about 2500 gil. You can also level your fame by trading 3 pair of soots to Gerbaum located at F-8 in the Bastok Mines. He'll give you 150 gil for them as well.

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