Thanks one and all, feet are definitely wet now, got all 3 DoL going, I DID notice that the basic mining spell is cross class, so I CAN have it running when I'm BLMing around! I had asked about "sparkling" because when I got my pick axe, I went to the first location (quest text) and spent 15 mins running around seeing nothing. After I posted here, I figured to try the second are and found a ton of nodes to mine!