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Overview, Tips & Tricks, and Ore Guide

Miners pound away in dark places, steep mountains, craggy ravines, and other spaces of immeasurable danger in search of the raw materials that they can use or sell.

Long aquainted with the Blacksmithing trade as well as engineering and jewelcrafting, there is a steep market for the wares that come out of these little rocks...

Hi-ho! Hi-ho! It's off to mine I go!

Mining 101

Between a rock and a hard space...

Mining is a very important profession in the game as it's materials feed three other major crafting professions: Blacksmithing, Jewelcrafting, and Engineering. Beyond the obvious market this brings about, mining can be fun, dangerous, and occasionally tedious.

It's pretty easy to get started, just find a trainer, buy a mining pick from any trade goods vendor and if you have some extra coin, go ahead and pick up a mining bag (not necessary, but really useful).

Mining is a gathering profession meaning that there is no real crafting going on, though you can smelt ore into bricks for easier selling to crafters. Ore in it's raw form can be prospected by jewelcrafters for gems as well.

Miners also gain a passive ability known as Toughness which increases the miner's stamina based on their skill level.

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Making Money With Mining

Easy stuff if you know where to go...

Because of how many professions this feeds, it's easy to see that ore and bars are a great market and fluctuates appropriately to the supply and demand. It's well worth knowing what sells in order to get the most out of it.

The auction house is a great place to start getting to know the prices for metals on your server. You're also going to want to grab the Gatherer addon or equivalent to help track nodes for mining runs.

If you're serious about mining, procuring a mining bag is going to be necessary as soon as you can get one. They are extremely handy for organizing what you mine, but the bags can come in larger sizes than normal bags for less money.

Best Sellers
• Ore
• Bars
• Stone
• Elemental Fire & Earth
• Essences
• Motes & Primals
• Crystalized Elements & Eternals
• Volatile Earth, Water, & Fire

Latest Patch Notes (4.3.0)

Mining profession changes...

No new changes for this patch.

Full Patch Notes // PTR Patch Notes

Ore Guide

Ore & Bar Smelting Levels

Ore Guide

Node Type

Minimum

Green

Gray

Copper

Tin

Bronze

115

Silver

122

130

Iron

125

145

160

Gold

155

177

185

Steel

165

Mithril

175

202

230

Truesilver

230

242

250

Dark Iron

230

305

310

Thorium

250

270

290

Ore Guide Continued...

300-525

Node Type

Minimum

Green

Gray

Fel Iron

300

307

315

Elementium

300

362

375

Adamantite

325

332

340

Eternium

350

357

365

Felsteel

350

357

375

Cobalt

350

362

375

Khorium

375

Hardened Khorium

375

Hardened Adamantite

375

Saronite

400

Titanium

450

Titansteel

450

Obsidium

425

437

475

Elementium

475

500

Hardened Elementium

500

525

Pyrite

525

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Handy Links

Here are a few WoW and Mining related links to help get you started.

World of Warcraft - Mining Abilities: WoWHead.com's list of mining abilities.
World of Warcraft - Mining Trainers: WoWHead.com's list of mining trainers.
World of Warcraft - Mineral Veins: An overview list of mineral veins, their minimum levels to mine, and zones.
Wowpedia - Mining: Mining overview on Wowpedia.
WoW Mining: Official introduction to Mining from WorldOfWarcraft.com
Gatherer addon for World of Warcraft: Practically a required addon for doing serious mining runs. This will show you where mineral deposits were previously mined by you and your guild.
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greg2213 Feb 5, 2008 @ 5:09 pm | delete

Prices for all these bits vary from time to time and server to server. Sometimes the raw ore sells for a LOT more than the bars, sometimes the bars go for more, so keep a contant eye on AH prices. Get your mining as high as you can as soon as you can, so you can get the iron, silver, amd mithril nodes in the lower level zones.