Howling Hammer
Howling Hammer is Ridge's workshop for tool upgrades and key farm builds like the barn.
Cave of Echoes is the Misty Shores mine players use for copper and later ore progression in Moonlight Peaks.
Cave of Echoes matters when ore, bars, and tool upgrades start blocking your progress. It is the named mine in Misty Shores that players use for copper first and for later ore runs once better tools open up more value inside. If you are trying to figure out where mining progression really begins, this is the location that answers that question.
Open Misty Shores through story progress, then use Cave of Echoes for the first meaningful mining loop. It is the location tied to early copper and later ore progression rather than a one-off cave visit.
Howling Hammer is Ridge's workshop for tool upgrades and key farm builds like the barn.
Ore farming
Players go here when copper and later ore tiers start to matter.
Misty Shores
The mine matters only after that story path opens.
Once tools and ore start holding back the farm, Cave of Echoes becomes the mine that actually moves progression again.
Head here when copper or later ore is the problem slowing everything else down. If you are still short on a shop purchase, town stops matter more first.
Cave of Echoes is the main early answer once Misty Shores is open.
It is the named mining location players use when ore and tool progression start to matter.