Jewel crafting came about in the first expansion in World of Warcraft, the Burning Crusade.  The skill allows a person to create various gems of different colors and rarities out of raw materials.  These gems are used in armor pieces and weapons that have “jewel slots” already in them, and provide various benefits to the items they are put in.  Each slot has a color associated to it, and if you use the right colors, you can unlock a bonus benefit that may or may not be helpful to your class.  Either way, you do not have to use the color associated with the slot if you do not want to.
There are several different types of jewels, and each color is known to have a similar effect on the character it is on, depending on the rarity of the jewel.  There are also, however, something called a meta jewel, which has considerably more powerful benefits than the other jewels.  These benefits have certain requirements that need to be met in order for the jewel to become active, however.  Some require certain jewels to already be present on the character, others have more complicated requirements.
There are four types of jewels. The ones that can be bought easily are the green or common jewels. Their statistics are lower, followed by the other three categories. Common jewels are the best for upcoming characters that are in constant gain of new equipment that switches from quest to quest.
Blue quality gems are the next step up on the rarity chart.  They provide larger statistical bonuses and are not used in your everyday gear.  These are reserved for blue quality gear or epic quality gear and are a cheaper more cost effective solution then epic gems.
Epic gems are the highest on the totem pole.  These gems are high priced, but provide superior statistical benefits compared to the other levels of gems.  The raw gems can be obtained by turning in badges of justice, which to people doing heroics regularly is a huge price savings because the costs of a single raw gem can easily reach several hundred gold.
As a jewel crafter, you are going to need to acquire gems in order to make your jewels.  You do this by prospecting stacks of ore that come in fives.  When you prospect the stack, it will disappear and yield a random gem for you.  This gem is usually a common green gem, but this process will also yield blue gems, and on very rare occasions, you will get an epic gem.  If you do this in large quantities, you will be pleasantly surprised with your results.  This process not only fuels your jewel crafting skill, it provides a great source of income!
This guide will allow you to become a level 450 jewel crafter in no time.  Do not make the mistake of trusting other sources, as this method has been heavily researched to be optimal way to accomplish this task.
To totally dominate WoW you will in most cases want to use a couple of guide, one for getting gold, and another for leveling. The top 2 guides for each of these respecively are the Warcraft Millionaire Guide and the Ultimate WoW Guide.

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