I challenge you to level mining from 1 to 250 in one day.

The funny thing is, I only ever discovered one gold vein, and that was on the beach near Southshore.

Mining is the absolute worst profession to level ever... actually it's not. Enchanting is the worst. I don't think I quite leveled 1-250 in one day, think I got to about 225ish and gave up. I remember doing countless laps around Silithus looking for Thorium Veins.

The question I have to ask is why?

why what?