My mage (who is not a miner) came across an Ancient Pandaren Mining Pick the other day, it's described here - »
www.wowhead.com/item=857 ··· ing-pickIt seems to help my miner be far more prolific than before, but not only in MoP areas. He was gathering stuff for my engineer (Fel Iron, Cobalt, and other stuff). As a miner he was getting multiple procs of various motes when mining in Outland (very frequently, often multiple of several types of mote) and the same in LK areas.
Has anyone tried it and had similar experience? It is account bound on pick up.