Farming Silver Ore — WoW Classic

WoW Classic · Original materials — choose your realm’s terrain
Updated 21 October 2026

Farming areas

Hillsbrad or Redridge

How to farm Silver Ore

Mine deposits with Mining. Carry a Mining Pick and use Find Minerals.

Classic Era, TBC and Wrath use the original Azeroth terrain. Cataclysm and Mists use the reworked world, so use a route for your realm’s terrain.

See Mining leveling for progression and related materials.

Profession guides using this material

Blacksmithing — Original WoW / Classic Era
Engineering — Original WoW / Classic Era
Mining — Original WoW / Classic Era

Skill and route planning

Requirement	Recommended zone
Mining skill 75	Hillsbrad Foothills

Silver is a rarer vein along early mining circuits. Gather other deposits too, instead of waiting beside one location.

References: Wowhead

Original Classic route map

Hillsbrad Foothills — Tin and Silver base map — 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.

Cataclysm and Mists: reworked-world map

Use this map on Cataclysm and Mists realms. The original-terrain routes above apply to Era, TBC and Wrath. Gathering skill follows your Classic realm’s profession rules; Retail-only phasing notes do not apply.