Mining Pick

When mine ore, a character can have an item that counts as a mining pick in inventory.

The Mining Pick item is the definitive and original mining pick. Patch 2.0 flagged a number of weapons to also qualify as mining picks, and several other items since them have been added that similarly qualify as mining picks.

While you do not actually need to have any mining pick to mine since Patch 5.0.4, the +10 to skill can allow you to mine ore that would normally be beyond your current skill, and is thus highly recommended.

Source
This item can be bought off of most Trade Goods vendors or Mining Suppliers.

Other mining picks
The following items also serve as a Mining Pick.

When used as a weapon, some of these can save you a slot in your bag(s) since they are both a weapon and a tool for mining.


 * Peon's Mining Pick
 * Seismic Bore
 * Ancient Pandaren Mining Pick
 * Brann's Trusty Pick
 * Cold Iron Pick
 * Digmaster 5000
 * Gouging Pick
 * Kobold Excavation Pick
 * Miner's Revenge
 * Shatterstone Pick
 * Tunnel Pick

Non weapons


 * Gnomish Army Knife
 * Bladed Pickaxe