Jewelcrafting Skill In WOW

Jewelcrafting is the brand new profession that will be released with the Burning Crusade Expansion. With this new profession you'll be able to make rings, necklaces, trinkets, and of course jewels for socketed weapons and armor. Through prospecting jewelcrafters can also receive gems from mineral ores such as, copper, mithril, iron, etc etc. Some of the different gems you can receive from prospecting will be ones that give you five points to defense, eight to agility, and things such as that to slotable items. The best skill to go with jewelcrafting will most definately be mining because of this. This is a picture of what the jewelcrafting window will look like. Blizzard has confirmed by the way that you can't pickup the jewelcrafting skill if you dont buy the expansion, although you will still be able to use the items and materials created by it. So basically if you dont buy the expansion you can still use jewelcrafting you just wont be able to make it yourself.
If you're looking to pickup jewelcrafting and start working it up first thing you should do is start gathering up the cheap mining stuff such as rough stones,copper bars, bronze bars, silver bars, and some of the cheapo gems such as malachite,sm lustrous pearls,shadowgems. You can easily get from 1 to 130ish or so using these low end materials. Once you hit around 130 or so you'll end up going to mithril and gold bars etc etc.