The biggest benefit of dealing with mined assets on the AH is that a participant is required to manual mind out and harvest the raw material. After they do which they have three options: sell the raw material, smelt it then sell it, or use it. http://bit.ly/gxAT6u (<A href="http://bit.ly/gxAT6u">http://bit.ly/gxAT6u</A>)