» Thu May 10, 2012 3:38 am
You can mine a load of Ebony at this one place, it's overrun by Orc tribes people - You can mine the ore at any time as far as I know, I'm level 17 and only like level 30 in smithing and I managed to mine 50 pieces of ebony ore (which is 25 ingots) and conveniently, there's a forge outside the mine. The place is called Gloombound Mine, connected to an Orc Stronghold called Narzulbur - It's almost directly East of Kynsegrove, which is south of Windhelm, just keep heading East and you'll reach Narzulbur first, where you can cross a bridge to the mine. It's part way up a small mountain, beware there's a lot of Orcs there - I'm not sure if they're hostile at all when you first meet them as I shot them with my bow from afar without thinking before I could find out. Probably best to just kill them all anyway...
Hope this helps.