Mining — Original WoW / Classic Era

WoW Classic · Original WoW / Classic Era
Updated 21 October 2026

This page uses the Original WoW / Classic Era ruleset. The skill numbers below are profession skill, not character level. Train the next profession rank before reaching your current cap.

Leveling Mining

Skill Materials Area or method
1–65 Copper Ore Durotar or Elwynn Forest
65–125 Tin Ore; Silver Ore Hillsbrad or Redridge
125–175 Iron Ore; Gold Ore Arathi Highlands
175–245 Mithril Ore; Truesilver Ore Tanaris or the Hinterlands
245–275 Thorium Ore Un’Goro Crater
275–300 Thorium Ore Un’Goro or Winterspring; include rich veins

Farm the materials

References: WoW-Professions

Other Classic expansions

Silver requires 75, Gold 155 and Truesilver 230. Small Thorium requires 245 and Rich Thorium 275. The table gives leveling stages, not permission to mine every listed vein at the first point in that stage.

Original Classic route maps

Elwynn Forest — Copper

WoW Classic · Original terrain (Era / TBC / Wrath)

Elwynn Forest — Copper base mapFargodeep Mine area1Jasperlode Mine entrance area2wow-farming.info · WoW Classic · Original terrain (Era / TBC / Wrath)
Circle accessible hills between Goldshire, the western farms and the eastern countryside. Detour into Fargodeep and Jasperlode mines if you can handle their enemies. Mining 1 is sufficient for Copper. This is a suggested search circuit; detour to tracked nodes. It does not show guaranteed spawn positions.
  1. Fargodeep Mine area — 40, 82
  2. Jasperlode Mine entrance area — 61.7, 53.8

Game cartography © Blizzard Entertainment, via Wowhead. Location reference: WoW-Professions.

Hillsbrad Foothills — Tin and Silver

WoW Classic · Original terrain (Era / TBC / Wrath)

Hillsbrad Foothills — Tin and Silver base mapwow-farming.info · WoW Classic · Original terrain (Era / TBC / Wrath)
Search rocky ground and the mine approaches. Tin requires 65; Silver requires 75. Avoid Tarren Mill guards if you are Alliance and Southshore guards if you are Horde. This is a suggested search circuit; detour to tracked nodes. It does not show guaranteed spawn positions.
Game cartography © Blizzard Entertainment, via Wowhead. Location reference: WoW-Professions.

Arathi Highlands — Iron and Gold

WoW Classic · Original terrain (Era / TBC / Wrath)

Arathi Highlands — Iron and Gold base mapwow-farming.info · WoW Classic · Original terrain (Era / TBC / Wrath)
Follow the hills and outer slopes, detouring to deposits in caves when safe. Iron requires 125 and Gold 155. Avoid faction guards near Hammerfall and Refuge Pointe. This is a suggested search circuit; detour to tracked nodes. It does not show guaranteed spawn positions.
Game cartography © Blizzard Entertainment, via Wowhead. Location reference: WoW-Professions.

Un’Goro Crater — Thorium

WoW Classic · Original terrain (Era / TBC / Wrath)

Un’Goro Crater — Thorium base mapwow-farming.info · WoW Classic · Original terrain (Era / TBC / Wrath)
Search the crater’s outer slopes and caves, with a detour around Fire Plume Ridge when useful. Small Thorium requires 245 and Rich Thorium 275. Watch for roaming elites; the circuit is not a safe travel guarantee. This is a suggested search circuit; detour to tracked nodes. It does not show guaranteed spawn positions.
Game cartography © Blizzard Entertainment, via Wowhead. Location reference: WoW-Professions.

Mithril and Truesilver circuit

The Hinterlands — Mithril and Truesilver

WoW Classic · Original terrain (Era / TBC / Wrath)

The Hinterlands — Mithril and Truesilver base mapSkulk Rock cave detour1wow-farming.info · WoW Classic · Original terrain (Era / TBC / Wrath)
Follow rocky edges through the central zone and check the cave. Mithril requires Mining 175; Truesilver requires 230. Detour to tracked deposits and avoid faction guards. Outlines mark approximate farming areas; clear the suitable targets inside them and repeat as they respawn. Markers identify areas, not guaranteed individual spawns.
  1. Skulk Rock cave detour — 58, 39

Game cartography © Blizzard Entertainment, via Wowhead. Location reference: WoW-Professions.

Searing Gorge — Dark Iron

WoW Classic · Original terrain (Era / TBC / Wrath)

Searing Gorge — Dark Iron base mapThe Cauldron — check ledges and accessible mine tunnels1wow-farming.info · WoW Classic · Original terrain (Era / TBC / Wrath)
Mining Dark Iron requires 230. Search the Cauldron’s ledges and tunnels; the surface outline cannot show underground passages. Smelting requires learning Smelt Dark Iron and using the Black Forge in Blackrock Depths. Markers identify approximate areas. Lines are suggested searches; they are not fixed spawn locations or a measured yield guarantee.
  1. The Cauldron — check ledges and accessible mine tunnels — 41, 48

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