Making Gold by Mining in World of Warcraft

Mining has always been the most profitable profession in the game of World of Warcraft. Most miners most of the time focus on gathering herbs from the Outlands but since jewel-crafting is still a new profession, many new players especially the Draenei and Blood Elves of course choose it as profession. This is because this profession requires many ores to level and gems are obtained by Prospecting ores, Mining becomes an excellent way to earn cash for early levels, not just from early levels, not just at level 70.
Outland deposits drop ores, Motes of Fire, Motes of Earth and green/rare gems. Keep in mind that Azeroth deposits also drop stones which can now be used by Jewel-crafters - it's the cheapest way to get to JC skill points, so they will buy them by the bulk.
If you are new to a zone, you should first find ore. For the most part, most ores spawn on rocks and mountains, and usually surround the edges of the map.
Do you know which zones are less farmed? If there is a good Mining zone, there will be miners in that area. Before doing on a Mining run, you can do a /who area to give you a rough idea of the possible competition.
When it comes to the best time to mine, there will be tones of players swarming all maps for ores during the afternoons. If you want to do a good mining run, the best time is late at night, or every early morning. Since a lot of the population raids start in the evenings, you will find that most areas are free between the hours of 7pm and 11pm, the perfect time to go mining.
Mining is a very versatile profession, nowadays because the ores can be used by multiple other professions and the profit can come from multiple sources: selling the ores. Smelting them or prospecting them. It all depends on the market at that time.
How to make lots of money with Mining? You may think of it this way, each time a Warrior, Paladin or DK is born, they will likely get one profession that uses ore as a main material. On a good day you can probably get 5 stacks of Saronite per hour, and that lone translate into 200-250 gold coins. The money adds up to much higher amounts if you now get some gems, crystallized elementals and greens from cleaning the area surrounding node.
If you want to farm low level ore, Un'goro Crater and Burning Steepes are accessible and rich in Mining deposits. You can farm Mithril and Thorium ore here, and sell it as raw materials or transform it into bars. However the level 50-60 gems sell amazing fast and for huge amounts if you have a Jewel-crafting or a jewel-crafter friend.
You'll have to start with Hellfire Peninsula when moving on to the Outland Mining. Hellfire is a small haven for miners and herbalist as well. The ore and herbs found there are not as valuable as Adamantite, but collecting Motes of Fire and smelt the ore is a great way to make money with Fel Iron Ore. You can prospect Fel iron Ore, but it is not recommendable, because of the drop rate for rare gems is infinitely lower than Adamantite.
Now it's the time for us to come to the true wow gold making source from mining, Adamantite Ore. Nagrand, Terokkar and NetherStorm are the best places for Adamantite ore. Shadowmoon Valley also has a lot of Fel Iron and Adamantite deposits, but only go there if you want to clear groups of mobs for every other node. A quick way to make some ore and usually some Khorium is above Aldor Rise in the Ogre camp. Respawn rate is very good, and if you have herbalism there, you can kill two birds with one stone. White Adamantite ore the best way to turn it into profit it is to prospect it, instead of selling the ore. However, if you prefer to sell the ore or don't have a JC who can prospect it for you, sell it in small stacks or even as single items. You can make a few silver for each ore you sell by selling them one by one. You better remember to put moderate amounts of ores in the AH, otherwise you might flood it or even find that they all expire before selling any. The key to selling small stacks if logging several times and lifting a few items.
As mentioned above, we hope this greatly helps you with Mining and making World of Warcraft gold.