Profession · Primary profession
Mining
Gathers ore and stone from veins, and smelts ore into bars. Primary profession · 12 recipes · 11 node types · 13 trainers
Smelting (12)
By the skill needed to learn each; click a heading to sort. The four numbers are the skill at which a recipe is orange, yellow, green and grey.
| 1 25 48 70 | Smelt Copper | Copper Bar | Copper Ore | With the skill |
| 1 230 230 230 | Smelt Dark Iron | Dark Iron Bar | Dark Iron Ore ×8 | Unknown |
| 1 310 315 320 | Smelt Elementium | Elementium Bar | Elementium Ore, Arcanite Bar ×10, Fiery Core, Elemental Flux ×3 | Unknown |
| 65 65 90 115 | Smelt Bronze | Bronze Bar ×2 | Copper Bar, Tin Bar | Trainer |
| 65 50 63 75 | Smelt Tin | Tin Bar | Tin Ore | Trainer |
| 75 100 113 125 | Smelt Silver | Silver Bar | Silver Ore | Trainer |
| 125 130 135 140 | Smelt Iron | Iron Bar | Iron Ore | Trainer |
| 155 170 178 185 | Smelt Gold | Gold Bar | Gold Ore | Trainer |
| 165 165 165 165 | Smelt Steel | Steel Bar | Iron Bar, Coal | Trainer |
| 175 175 175 175 | Smelt Mithril | Mithril Bar | Mithril Ore | Trainer |
| 230 230 230 230 | Smelt Truesilver | Truesilver Bar | Truesilver Ore | Trainer |
| 250 250 250 250 | Smelt Thorium | Thorium Bar | Thorium Ore | Trainer |
Veins and deposits (11)
By the skill each node needs; the zones with the most spawn points of it. Rest on a zone, or press the pin beside it, to see that node's points on the zone's map; the link opens the zone's full node list. Dungeons have no map yet.
| 1 | Copper Vein | 1593 | Westfall 146, Durotar 131, Silverpine Forest 117, Duskwood 113 +27 more |
| 65 | Tin Vein | 856 | Wetlands 130, Silverpine Forest 117, Duskwood 113, Loch Modan 111 +19 more |
| 75 | Silver Vein | 1355 | Arathi Highlands 251, Hillsbrad Foothills 141, Stranglethorn Vale 138, Alterac Mountains 132 +19 more |
| 125 | Iron Deposit | 991 | Arathi Highlands 231, Stranglethorn Vale 138, Alterac Mountains 129, Thousand Needles 113 +11 more |
| 150 | Indurium Mineral Vein | 7 | Uldaman 7 |
| 155 | Gold Vein | 1155 | Arathi Highlands 251, Stranglethorn Vale 138, Alterac Mountains 129, Duskwood 113 +18 more |
| 175 | Mithril Deposit | 579 | The Hinterlands 111, Badlands 105, Searing Gorge 92, Alterac Mountains 86 +12 more |
| 230 | Dark Iron Deposit | 151 | Searing Gorge 85, Molten Core 40, Blackrock Depths 26 |
| 230 | Truesilver Deposit | 456 | The Hinterlands 111, Badlands 106, Alterac Mountains 86, Searing Gorge 59 +11 more |
| 245 | Small Thorium Vein | 42 | Winterspring 28, Blasted Lands 8, Swamp of Sorrows 4, Felwood 2 |
| 275 | Rich Thorium Vein | 81 | Winterspring 59, Azshara 13, Dire Maul 9 |
Trainers (13)
Everyone who teaches Mining, by zone. Each NPC page has its full list of what it teaches and where it stands. Press the pin beside a zone, or rest on it, to see where that trainer stands.
| Kurdram Stonehammer | Darkshore |
| Dank Drizzlecut | Dun Morogh |
| Yarr Hammerstone | Dun Morogh |
| Krunn | Durotar |
| Matt Johnson | Duskwood |
| Geofram Bouldertoe | Ironforge |
| Brock Stoneseeker | Loch Modan |
| Makaru | Orgrimmar |
| Johan Focht | Silverpine Forest |
| Gelman Stonehand | Stormwind City |
| Pikkle | Tanaris |
| Brek Stonehoof | Thunder Bluff |
| Brom Killian | Undercity |
About this data
Classic baseline. This is what the original game had, from cMaNGOS classic-db (1.12.1 (build 5875)). Forever's beta has not been checked for this page yet; rows we see in play will say so, and anything Forever changes will be marked.