Farming Elementium Ore — Retail

Retail · Cataclysm materials
Updated 21 October 2026

This is the Retail guide for Elementium Ore. It covers an older expansion’s crafting material, not Midnight’s new reagents.

Train Cataclysm Mining for this material. Retail uses a separate 1–75 Cataclysm skill bar; the old combined 1–600 progression does not apply. Character levels depend on zone scaling and timeline selection, so the map and quest requirements in your current game determine access.

Where to farm Elementium Ore

  • Twilight Highlands
  • Uldum

Enable Find Minerals and follow the zone circuit. Gather other deposits along the way rather than waiting beside a single spawn; competing miners and respawn timing change how much you collect.

Related guides

References: WoW-Professions

Updated farming route

Twilight Highlands — Elementium and Pyrite

Cataclysm zones · Retail / WoW Classic Cataclysm and Mists

Twilight Highlands — Elementium and Pyrite base mapwow-farming.info · Cataclysm zones · Retail / WoW Classic Cataclysm and Mists
Search rocky slopes and accessible cave entrances with Find Minerals enabled. Classic Elementium needs Mining 475, rich deposits 500 and Pyrite 525. Mine ordinary Elementium while searching for rare Pyrite replacements. Markers identify approximate areas. Lines are suggested searches; they are not fixed spawn locations or a measured yield guarantee.
Game cartography © Blizzard Entertainment, via Wowhead. Location reference: WoW-Professions.