Mining Areas and What Type of OreFollow

I did mining in the past 2 days and brought my skill level to 250.

Here is what I did:

Durotar: Copper
The Barrens: Copper, Tin, Silver
Silverpine Forest (Berel's Peril): Tin
Hillsbrad Foothills: Tin
Arathi Highlands: Iron, Lesser Bloodstone (in Drywhisker Gorge), Gold
Badlands: Iron, Gold, Mithril, Truesilver

I haven't found a good place for Small Thorium yet.

What about mining in Alliance lands?
Where is a good location for silver, and other
ores above silver?
~ÐL

These are areas I have found best for mining by type, the letters after are M=moderate amount and A=abundant amount:


(Disclaimer: Now if I tell you this, don't beat me to the ore ;) )


Copper:
Just run around Durotar or crossroads,Silverpine or Loch Modan with your mining radar up, I get tons of it there. Basicly Copper and tin are Abundant in the Noob areas.

Tin:
Same areas as above plus Thousand Needles, some in Ashenvale, though not much.

Iron:
Duskwood (M)
Badlands (M)
Arathi (M)
Swamp of Sorrows (M)
Hillsbrad (M)
Stonetalon (M)
Hinterlands (M)
Thousand needles (A)
Alterac (A)
Stranglethorn Vale (A)


Mithril:

Burning Steppes (M)
Stranglethorn Vale (M)
Swamp of Sorrows (M)
Searing Gorge (M)
Felwood (M)
Tanaris (M)
Blasted lands (A)
alterac (A)
Hinterlands (A)
Azshara (A)
Feralas (A)

Truesilver:

Dustwallow Marsh in dragon cave
Scattered mines throughout Tanaris

Thorium:

Blasted Lands (M)
Searing Gorge (M)
Eastern Plaguelands (M)
Azshara (M)
Tanaris (M)
Un'Goro Crater (M)
Burning Steppes (A)
Winterspring (A)

I would like to disagree with the previous comment for the alliance finding of tin. Once you hit around 14 or so and can travel to the other side of the loch without a huge problem, finding Ore is rather easy, even in peak times. I just start in town and head along the mountains south and follow it around the south side of the loch and all the way around to the area with the elite orges... following this path, I would easily find 5-6 copper veins, 5-6 tin veins and a silver vein most of the time. (if not the silver, another tin because there are two mining spawn points that switch between silver and tin) and once you get to the ogres, turn around and move your way back. by the time you get to the SE corner of the map, those all have respawned and you can find all those you have already got. Hope you find this useful.

has noeone been to the scorched vale...

there's so much mithril there. i got about 60 bars in a few hours.

For those of lower levels.

Copper, I found to be fairly abundant in the newbie zones. For the dwarven lands just make sure you travel a bit outside the roads to one side or the other.

Loch Moden has lots of copper and tin as well. Tin for most of the zone is rare, but if you go down toward the lodge in the southeast corner you will find it more abundant. Look for the buzzards.

Wetlands has lots of tin and some silver and some iron. For the tin veer right after coming out of loch moden. From the first gnoll camp till you get to the waterfalls is a fair bit. If you go to the spider camps to the left you will also get the mineral for the quest (sorry dont remember name now) along with a few mines that seem to spawn more silver than tin. There is some iron in the northeast part of the zone, but be careful as the mobs are lvl 27 to 31 there, especially (hint) in the caves.

this needs a bump cuz i'm tired of looking for it repeatedly, and it's a great thread...

I'm looking for a mine that has Thorium in it...any ideas??

(not looking for a whole AREA...I'm looking for a specific mine a.k.a. dark cavern to go into with 2-3 veins)

hey Pat!! i didnt know they respawn as something else! :lol
thats too cool
/hugs bro

Peregrine (Snowghost)

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Edited, Sun Jan 23 01:35:20 2005 by Snowghost

Anyone know any good places for Silver? My mining skill is almost 125 and I've yet to mine or see any Silver.