I have been unsucessful unraveling the leather mining gloves and suspect the ringmail gloves will be likewise. But you can imbue them. My miner wears a pair so he doesn't need to switch gear mining and smelting on the fire beetle.
This was at 120 skill I assume? What message did you get when you tried? I have been afraid to try because I'm not even at 75 skill yet.
I guess these are clean up items then. Sad that the prospector's tool is worth less than a point for cleanup but the gloves are decent. This is another item which oughtta be worth a bit more since bodders are constantly just dropping them on the ground, littering and making for very ugly blacksmith shops. At least 25-50 pts to make it worth our while to carry em to a trashcan eh?
Interesting that the old gloves can't be imbued. I wonder if it has something to do with the resists. My old pair of gloves that I've been using for a while has resists 6/6/3/8/4
and the two new pair of +5 gloves that I just got each have resists of 3/3/1/5/3.
Also, I'm very curious what you imbued your gloves with. What is it that you need for smelting on beetle?