nice guide
++rep
I am more or less a n00b (still disciple) but I did manage to deposit $30 last year to try out mining, and I noticed that the best mining places were in places either devoid of people/mobs or with spread out hi/mid-strength mobs (e.g. north of the southern teleporter on that snowy island, or west of the teleporter in that purple forest place
, and a bunch of other places too)