I have to admit that I lost track of where the best places are to get certain items in mining as the gathering updates changed it all around, and lots of our resources only mention if a gather if an item is possible, and not say...the highest loads per hour.

I really only know the mining g5 areas, so I'll start.

Best place to get.....

Gold ore- Halatali. About 25 ores per gather until field fatigue at r 47. Second tic from the bottom in WEST Halatali since east is really painful to mine. Beats coerthas.

Gold sand- same. East Halatali. About 35 sands per gather even when trying for gold ore tics. first tic up from the bottom.

All iron- iron lake. By far.

Silver- tranquil so far seems best. It drops off at g5.