WoW Mining Guide

Gathering professions are a great way for making WoW gold. All throughout Azeroth and the Outland you'll find many resources which can be gathered by the various gathering professions, which then can be used to craft all sorts of useful equipment. Mining is the gathering and smelting of various ores, minerals and gems which can be used by Blacksmiths for creating powerful weapons and armor, Jewelcrafters for a variety of useful gems which can be placed in socketed equipment to add additional stats, or Engineers who can craft all sorts of quirky gadgets which can sometimes turn the tides of a battle. Because the mining resources are used by so many other professions, if you chose to just sell all your gathered minerals and ores, you'll be rolling in WoW gold in no time.

The easiest way to find a Mining trainer is to talk to a guard in one of the major cities (Orgrimmar, Stormwind etc.), they will point you to the nearest trainer. Upon receiving training you will start out as an apprentice and will only be able to mine the lowest level minerals and will have to work your way up.

The following is a list of the skill levels, the metals you will be able to smelt and the ores needed in order level up your mining skill:

Apprentice mining 1-75:

-copper (copper ore)
-tin (tin ore)
-bronze (copper & tin bar)

Journeyman mining 50-150:

-silver (silver ore)
-iron (iron ore)

Expert mining 125-225:

-gold (gold ore)
-steel (iron bar & coal)
-mithril (mithril ore)

Artisan mining 200-300:

-truesilver (truesilver ore)
-dark iron (dark iron ore x8)
-thorium (thorium ore)
Master mining 275-375:

-fel iron (fel iron ore x2)
-adamantite (adamantite ore x2)
-eternium (eternium ore x2)
-felsteel (fel iron bar x3, eternium bar x2)
-khorium (khorium ore x2)
-hardened adamantite (adamantite bar x10)

After completing a certain skill level (EX. apprentice mining), the mining trainer will generally tell you where to go next to further your training.

The following is a list of the zones in which you will find each different type of metal ore and the skill level required to mine it:

Copper Vein (req. skill 1):
the barrens, dun morogh, tirisfal glades, durotar, eversong woods, elwynn forest, loch modan, mulgore, darkshore, azuremyst isle, bloodmyst isle, ghostlands, redridge mountains, westfall, silverpine forest, stonetalon mountains, ashenvale, duskwood, thousand needles, hillsbrad foothills, wetlands, desolace.

Tin Vein (req. skill 65):
ashenvale, the barrens, redridge mountains, hillsbrad foothills, wetlands, thousand needles, stonetalon mountains, duskwood, loch modan, darkshore, silverpine forest, desolace, bloodmyst isle, westfall, arathi highlands, ghostlands, alterac mountains, dustwallow marsh, stanglethorn vale.

Silver Vein (req. skill 75):
ashenvale, desolace, thousand needles, arathi highlands, hillsbrad foothills, stranglethorn vale, the barrens, alterac mountains, loch modan, badlands, darkshore, dustwallow marsh, silverpine forest, bloodmyst isle, swamp of sorrows, westfall, tanaris, feralas, the hinterlands.

Iron Deposit (req. skill 125):
arathi highlands, desolace, stranglethorn vale, thousand needles, alterac mountains, ashenvale, badlands, dustwallow marsh, hillsbrad foothills, duskwood, swamp of sorrows, tanaris, feralas, wetlands, stonetalon mountains, the hinterlands, searing gorge.

Gold Vein (req. skill 155):
desolace, arathi highlands, stranglethorn vale, badlands, the hinterlands, tanaris, thousand needles, alterac mountains, ashenvale, feralas, azshara, swamp of sorrows, searing gorge, dustwallow marsh, blasted lands, hillsbrad foothills, duskwood, felwood, burning steppes, western plaguelands, stonetalon mountains, silithus, winterspring, un'goro crater.

Mithril Deposit (req. skill 175):
the hinterlands, tanaris, azshara, desolace, badlands, stranglethorn vale, searing gorge, feralas, blasted lands, felwood, arathi highlands, burning steppes, western plaguelands, silithus, winterspring, alterac mountains, swamp of sorrows, dustwallow marsh, stonetalon mountains, un'goro crater, eastern plaguelands, thousand needles, hillbrad foothills.

Truesilver Deposit (req. skill 230):
winterspring, the hinterlands, azshara, burning steppes, tanaris, eastern plaguelands, un'goro crater, blasted lands, silithus, western plaguelands, felwood, desolace, searing gorge, badlands, stranglethorn vale, feralas, arathi highlands, alterac mountains.

Dark Iron Deposit (req. skill 230):
burning steppes, searing gorge, blackrock depths, molten core.

Small Thorium Vein (req. skill 245):
silithus, un'goro crater, winterspring, felwood, blasted lands, burning steppes, western plaguelands, eastern plaguelands, tanaris, searing gorge, the hinterlands, feralas.

Rich Thorium Vein (req. skill 275):
winterspring, azshara, eastern plaguelands, burning steppes, un'goro crater, western plauelands.

Fel Iron Deposit (req. skill 300):
Hellfire peninsula, zangarmarsh, blade's edge mountains, shadowmoon valley, nagrand, terokkar forest, netherstorm.

Adamantite Deposit (req. skill 325):
blade's edge mountains, nagrand, netherstorm, shadowmoon valley, terokkar forest, zangarmarsh.

Rich Adamantite Deposit (req. skill 350):
Nagrand, netherstorm, shadowmoon valley, terokkar forest.

Khorium Vein (req. skill 375):
hellfire peninsula, nagrand, blade's edge mountains, netherstorm, shadowmoon valley, terokkar forest, zangarmarsh.

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