Minergate is one of the promising platform available out there for cloud mining as well as for pool mining. This review is completely about pool mining services offered by Minergate services.
To utilize Minergate Pool mining services, what all you need to do is just download Minergate software with which one can start mining alt coins like ETH,ETC, BTG,ZEC ,XMR etc., where your hashing power, confirmed and confirmed balance will be shown on the dashboard. In this you can have the option either to mine only with CPU or GPU or both which is a very good option for beginners. Even few alt coins can be mined with CPU alone, while allocating GPU to other currencies.
One thing I Didn't like about Minergate platform is that your unconfirmed balance will always stay as unconfirmed balance to the eternity, which makes me suspect this site. (This can be a scenario with me alone or with other miners, not sure at the moment).
For you are beginner, you can give a try else go for Hashflare or Genesis mining