I still have thousands of colored ingots stockpiled from the Candle of Love invasions. It pays to have a GM Miner/Legendary Smith/Legendary Macer running around with a Blackthorn's Kryss Elemental Slayer....
However, I'm actually out of iron ingots, for the BODs that I'm cycling with that legendary smith after the publish, so it's back to Ilshenar with my Gargoyle Picks, looking for hte elusive paragon ore elemental chests while mining for iron and the occasional extra stack of colored ore...
Just my luck, though - my start point's ore type changed, and yesterday I got a paragon copper elemental on my first swing (that produced only an iron ore). By the time I realized what I was fighting, and started to run, I'd already armor ignored it, and thereby reduced myself to single digits... before my first bandage could set in, it was graysville.