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The Mining skill is often paired with the Blacksmithing, Jewelcrafting, and Engineering skills, since these skills make use of much of the metal that Miners smelt. Mining can be quite a lucrative profession for just the purpose of making money as well, since much of the metal and stones can fetch quite a sum at the auction hall.
Mining also comes with 2 additional skills, Smelting and Find Minerals. Smelting is for converting your ore into usable metals. Smelting can be performed at one of the many forges located through most populated areas. The Find Minerals skill is like a radar that can be turned on and will operate passively to alert you on your minimap when mineral deposits are close by.
If you plan on taking Blacksmithing, Jewelcrafting or Engineering as one of your professions, Mining is highly recommended. Both of these professions require materials that can only be acquired through Mining. Mining is not required, but if you don't having Mining then you will have to purchase the metals, stones, and gems off the auction hall, which can be very expensive.
To start your Mining career, you will need to purchase a Mining Pick from a vendor and train in the skill with one of the mining trainers that are available. Many general goods vendors sell mining picks. You will want to keep this on you at all times. Check the table below to see which trainers are available. Right click on a city guard and they can direct you to the exact location if you are in a city.
Copper Ore (skill 1)
There isnt too much to the strategy behind mining copper. Copper is the easiest metal to improve and find deposits from. Copper can be found outside of any newbie zones. If you are farming for copper, consider travelling in a circular direction around the outer edges of your nearest newbie zone. Avoid looking in newbie mines or along the roads of newbie zones, as these are commonly picked clean by all the new players running around. On a more mature server, the newbie zones are fairly deserted during off-peak hours, and this is a good time to farm.
Smelting provides very good improvements across the entire span of copper skill. Be sure to smelt all your copper to gain the improvements. Once copper becomes grey to smelt and no longer offers improves, you can either continue to smelt it for awhile if you need it to make bronze(copper+tin), or just sell the ore and skip making the metal. On many servers the low level ores are worth more than the metal versions.
If you have alot of cash, consider purchasing copper ore on the auction and just smelting it for improvements. Then sell the metal to recoup some of your cost. This depends on the market conditions of your server, but this method can be done with copper on most servers.
All starting areas as well as most of the lower level zones under level 20 or so have copper deposits available. Dun Morogh, Durotar, Elwynn Forest, Loch Modan, and the Northern areas of the Barrens are particularly rich with copper deposits.
All starting areas as well as most of the lower level zones under level 20 or so have copper deposits available. Dun Morogh, Durotar, Elwynn Forest, Loch Modan, and the Northern areas of the Barrens are particularly rich with copper deposits.
Tin Ore (skill 65)
You should start coming across the occasional tin deposit about halfway through your copper levels. Tin is pretty straightforward, but can be a bit tough to find as you get into the higher end of tin towards your iron levels.
Check your auction hall for possible cheap deals on tin ore. Improves can still be made easily from smelting tin, and it is a necessary ingredient in producing bronze metal.
The higher ranges of tin can be difficult to level out of, partly because of a lack of tin, and also because the length of time you need to mine tin while it's green and gives few improves. Farming for the special ores such as lesser bloodstone ore or incendicite while in your upper tin range is highly recommended.
Iron Ore (skill 125)
Popular zones for Iron include: Alterac Mountains, Arathi Highlands, Ashenvale, Badlands, Blasted Lands, Desolace, Duskwood, Dustwallow Marsh, Feralas, Hillsbrad Foothills, Searing Gorge, Stonetalon Mountains, Stranglethorn Vale, Swamp of Sorrows, Tanaris, The Hinterlands, and Thousand Needles
Mithril Ore (skill 175)
Popular zones for Mithril include: Alterac Mountains, Arathi Highlands, Azshara, Badlands, Blasted Lands, Burning Steppes, Dustwallow Marsh, Eastern Plaguelands, Felwood, Feralas, Hillsbrad Foothills, Searing Gorge, Silithus, Stonetalon Mountains, Stranglethorn Vale, Swamp of Sorrows, Tanaris, The Hinterlands, Thousand Needles, Western Plaguelands, and Winterspring.
Mining v.s. Finding
Mining is a rather simple process. First you need a mining pick which is available at many general stores and all mining suppliers (who are almost always located near either a forge or a mining trainer). With the pick in hand it's time to mine!
You need to first find a mineral vein. They are on hills, rocky surfaces, cliffs, and in caves. You can use the skill "Find Minerals" which will show any nearby mineral veins on your mini-map. They will be small yellow dots and if you hover your mouse over them you will see what kind of mine they are.
As a small note, tracking abilities such as Find Herbs, Track Humans, and Sense Undead will be overridden when you use Find Minerals. You can only have one type of tracking/finding ability going at once.
From there you just need to adventure until you come across a mineral vein. When you spot one you would like to mine, simply walk over to it and defeat any enemies in your way. If there is an enemy attacking you while you try to mine, the mining will fail.
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