Profession Mining

As far as collecting Profession item go, mining is by far the slowest turn over.

I sometime mine for an hour and am lucky to find 5 of the same gem. That being said In order to make Gold armors you need 2 pieces of Gold Ore.

So not only is finding gold ultra slow but you need twice as much of it to manufacture a gold piece.

Is there a way of changing this formula or making profession in mines easier to find? Im happy with the drop rate in mines but it just seems ridiculous to have to mine for an hour just to manufacture 2 gold pieces.

Almost all items are similar to this though:
2 unrefined emerald = 1 refined emerald
2 unrefined sand = 1 refined sand

When you move onto crafting it almost all evens out: (going from unrefined to crafting)
1 tin + 1 copper = 1 bronze blank
1 coal + 1 iron = 1 steel blank
2 gold = 1 gold blank

If anything you aren't to the difficult part yet  
1 emerald + 1 rough stone = 1 emmy blank
1 lead + 1 refined sand = 1 cry blank

Your forgetting that it is 2 ores AND mercury.  All i was suggesting was that one be removed as it makes gold the hardest item to craft. I am up to the "hard ones" ie Emmy, and believe me it's easier than gold blank as u don't have to mine then wait on wall spawns.

I believe LL has now changed it to Gold ore and mercury to create the blank.

Yes but the mercury vials were the easiest thing in the world to get and I at least always had more of them then I knew what to do with.

Ive also been noticing lately that I am getting far more vials than I am gold ores. It feels like at least one of the vials should either be removed or changed to ore or randomized..etc.