Mining changes post BFA?

I know you can have different levels and they’re all tied to expansion now… but where can I get the Draenor mining? I have a pally I’m doing Draenor with and she gets no mining exp from the gathering dailies in garrison. I unlearned, and then relearned from trainer in Stormshield, but nothing happens when I mine at the garrison. I just get the ore, no experience. What am I doing wrong or where should I go?

Maybe try mining a node or two out in the world outside your garrison and see if a quest item drops that teaches you the mining skill you need to start getting experience points. I think that’s how it worked in that expansion.

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Mining and Herbing in the garrison mine and herb garden do not give skill ups and they do not drop the secrets of Draaenor X books to learn the draenor skill.
You have to min/herb outside the garrison to get akill ups.

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This. I think you used to get skill-ups during the expansion, but it was changed at some point afterward. What is also annoying (at least the last time I bothered), miners of insufficient skill get nuggets of ore from the garrison mine while non-miners get whole ore.

I don’t think that’s the case any more with the revamped profession system. Now that it’s all separated by expansions, you’re back to getting regular drops from nodes instead of fragments.