This WoW Mining Guide is aimed at showing you how best to level your mining from 1 to 450 in the fastest way and has beenUpdated for WoW patch 3.3

Mining is one of the professions that in my opinion really has the potential to make money, Its the gathering profession associated with Blacksmithing, Jewelcrafting and Engineering so even the low level ores and bars sell for reasonably good prices and the high end ores such as saronite and now titanium are prospected for Rare and even Epic gems making ores a constantly saught after item in WoW.

Now the thing to remember is that although in this guide we aim to show you the fastest way to level Mining it is afterall a gatehring profession so unlike crafting professions you cant really stand in a city and you will spend allot of time running around zones looking for nodes to mine, so ive included maps with the best routes weve found to hopefully speed this up for you.(Some maps are from WoW Professions.com and credit goes to them for those)

Guide Sections:

1 - 65 Copper mining
65 - 125 Copper, Tin, Silver mining
125 - 175 Iron, Tin, Gold mining
175 - 230 Mithril, Truesilver mining
230 - 300 Mithril, Thorium, Rich Thorium mining
300 - 325 Fel Iron mining
325 - 350 Fel Iron, Adamantite mining
350 - 400 Cobalt mining
400 - 450 Saronite mining

First, visit any trainer in the main cities of old Azeroth - just ask a guard, and learn Apprentice Mining.

If like us you have a guidl with allot of people uysing gathering professions you should definately download the folling addon and get as many of them to use it aswell: Gatherer

This addon allows you to see all the mining locations you have found on your map aswell as pick up those that oterh with the addon have found, its a great tool for any gathering profession and really speeds things up. here.

I'd also recommend you get: [Formula: Enchant Gloves - Advanced Mining] just put the enchant ona pair of random gloves (obviously not your best gloves) and slip them on everytime you go mining, its great in the long run and if your not an enchanter or dont know one check the Ah for [Scroll of Enchant Gloves - Advanced Mining]it shouldn't be too expensive and is well worth the investment.

When you have around 30 copper Ore, go and Smelt them and repeate the cycle, go mine ores then smelt them. Save the Copper Bars, you will need them.

Alternative Map:

Basically just every starter zone. I won't include mining ways for these, because you can find copper everywhere you go.

• Elwynn Forest
• Darkshore
• Azuremyst Isle
• Tirisfal Glades
• Mulgore
• Eversong Woods

Learn Mining Journeyman.

[Tin Ore], [Silver Ore], [Copper Ore]

This is a really bad part, Tin is the hardest to find there is not a single zone, where you can only find Tin, there is always Copper or Iron aswell. I usually mine Tin until 75, then I smelt all of my Ores. After that, I turn my Copper and Tin Bars into Bronze Bars. This should take you around 90-95 Mining skill.

At 75 you can learn how to smelt Silver Ore. This will help you get your skill to 125. Silver Ore and bars sell for rougly the same, buy the ore and sell the bars at the auction house. However on some high populated servers, Ores are extremely expensive, then you should just mine Tin and Smelt Bronze until 125. If you find any Silver Vein, smelt the ores before you reach 115 in Mining, because it's better to smelt them while they are still yellow or orange and Smelt Silver turns green at 122.

Learn Mining Expert.

[Iron Ore], [Tin Ore], [Gold Ore]

At 155 you can learn how to smelt Gold Ore. Buy 30 Gold Ore and smelt them, that should get you around 175. Same as with Silver Ores, buy them if they are not expensive, smelt them and sell the bars at the Auction House.

[Mithril Ore], [Truesilver Ore]

When you reach 225, don't forget to visit your Mining trainer.

[Thorium Ore]

Buy Thorium Ores and smelt them until you reach 255 (250 if you have the Mining Enchant on your gloves), the reason for this is that with 255 Mining skill, you will be able to mine Rich Thorium Veins, not just the small ones. You can actually smelt Thorium up to 270 if you want to. Sell the Thorium Bars at the Auction House.

Un'Goro is the best place to level Mining up to 300, if you can't find Thorium, it is because someone is already farming there.

The red areas are the caves. There are usually 2-3 caves in every red area and they are filled with Rich Thorium Veins. You should be using Gatherer by this time already, it really helps you a lot.

Go to Outland and learn Mining Master.

Go to Northrend and learn Mining Grand Master.