Best mystcraft mining age?

[madaffacca]

I'm not that familiar with mystcraft and I have a question: is there a list of good ages to mine in? I mean, manually mining since I don't have the resources to build a quarry yet. In my overworld, caves are so damn rare, I still haven't found a forest biome (so no bauxite) and no oceans as well (so no sapphires). Has anyone found a cool mining age combination?

 

[ItharianEngineering]

Aside from the "dense ores, mining laser, run". I usually just write a stable cave world set to bright typically just with the mushroom biome as it prevents mob spawns, but I don't know what types of biome specific ores you are looking for or rather if it has them.

 

[netmc]

The meadows biome will give you plenty of bauxite.

 

[SilvasRuin]

Cave worlds or mountainous flat worlds will give you more ore spawning space, which is good for Copper and Tin. Remember to actually use the Cave symbol if you want caves. It sounds like you'll want a few cave symbols. Oceans (flat or not) will give you less ore spawning space, which might actually make it easier to find the ores with more strict limitations per chunk... assuming the cave generation doesn't wind up destroying those ores. I don't know when GregTech generates Iridium in the order of things.