Hey ive been running around skyrim mine to mine and noticed that even though there is ore to be mined it does not give the option to press A to mine some specific ore whereas some ore can. Is this due to the recent patchj? I Could mine some ore I mined there a while ago in some of these mines but now it will not let me even though you can clearly see there is some available?

are you sure there's ore to be mined? not just an oddly colored wall? and if you've already mined it then you cant mine it again. dunno if it respawns or not.

Yeah if needed I could get a screenshot but I would presume ore regenerates... there shouldn't be a limited supply surely there are some miners in the caves there ore regens every 3mins or so

Well the vein's are supposed to respawn after a month in game but ive heard that doesnt work sometime's.

right ive just recorded a little 1min clip just rendering now and I will post a link to what I mean and see if you can come up with any conclusions I have auto waited a month and still nothing.

ok so here is the video have a look http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0FOqYpoycA

any solutions?

You can always try equipping pickaxes like any other weapon and attacking the ore mine. It's actually faster if you attack with dual pickaxes, and worked for me when I could not get the animation to play.

Hmm I can try Im not sure if the recent updat has anything to do with the ore system im going to reset my xbox updates and try again

maybe the whole area is one big vein. just mine the others and see what happens. or try the attacking with pickaxe option.

It's because the texture loads without the "ore ready" information, just exit and re enter the mine and it should work again, happens all the time to me annoyingly.

Sometimes I'll start to mine the vein, my character will not swing the pickaxe, but just stand there. After he jumps back to reality, there is no additional ore in my inventory, the deposit remain's 'active' but activating does not do anything.

Sometimes I wonder if this game was actually played before they released it...