Best method to farm ore in outlands with flying mount?Follow

I recently acquired my normal flying mount in outlands, and have found it much easier to farm ore to sell on the AH and increase my jewelcrafting, however I'm not sure on the best method to go about flying through the zones to find the stuff. I've got gatherer installed to track the nodes myself, friends and guildmates find, and I use wowhead open on another PC to show me the location of minerals and fly around.

I tend to do a zig-zag pattern around the zone (start at one spot, say upper-left corner, fly to upper-right, and move down in a sort of S or Z pattern through the map. This nets me quite a bunch of ore provided theres little or no one else in the zone farming as well. I can spend a few hours and almost fill my 20 slot mining bag with ore and stones, and net quite a few gems and motes as well.

Occasionally I end up fighting the random mob or horde player (I'm on a pvp server) but that only slows me down a bit and never really is an issue.

I'd like to hear what everyone who has a flying mount does to farm their minerals/herbs/etc.

Thanks in advance!

Circles ftw.

I was farming last night and alternated between Hellfire & Shadow moon. Just do a complete circle around the zone then do a few passes over the middle so as not to miss any.

I farmed for a few hours and this was my final Tally:

Fel iron Ore - 168
Admantanite Ore - 37
Khorium Ore - 9
Eternium Ore - 19

Also 4 Primal Fires and 3 Primal Earth and a bunch of gems.

Aside from knowing the locations of nodes (experience plus gatherer),one of the best tactics to increase your productivity is,if possible, to farm during off-peak hours on your server. My 70 Warrior Sevhen is 375 in mining and engineering,but most of his ore harvesting goes to feed the prospecting demons of my Jewelcrafting rogue alt Now. My server,Suramar,is West Coast; I live on the East Coast,so getting online early EST (6AM or before) usually means very little competition for nodes,as most PST folks have logged out by then.
For me,a very efficient mining "pattern" would begin early AM EST in Blade's Edge,then progress into Netherstorm for a pass there. Once Netherstorm has been picked,hearth to Shattrath,then one pass through Nagrand. Off peak,on a fast bird,those 3 zones usually produce several stacks of adamantite,and a few of Fel Iron for about 80 minutes or so of time invested.


Otis