Tin, Silver?Follow

Where are some good spots to mine for tin and silver? Any help would be great, all i can find are copper mines :(

The few places I found tin as a young horde where by the 3 "pools" or ponds of water in the mid to north of the barrens. Stonelaton mnts had some tin as well. 1000 needles has tin ore scattered throughout the zone.

I think silver is a rare "tin ore spawn" so it cannot be consistantly found.

Got 2 silvers, 1 from a chest just south of Bloodhoof village, the little camp for the darves. And other one from looting a Venture Co. in their mine.

As far as I can tell, mining the heck out of everything for 47 levels, the precious metals, Silver, Gold and Truesilver, have a small chance to spawn in the same location that a normal mineral of that level would normally spawn.
Copper -- No precious metal
Tin -- Silver
Iron -- Gold
Mithril -- Truesilver
Thorium -- I don't think there is anything but I am only 47 and have mined very little Thorium as of yet.

Mining and its many evils...

1) It's very addicting, because it's fun.

2) Tiers of mining are TIED to level brackets.

Newbie lands = Copper only
Lv10-20 = Copper and Tin (Silver)
Lv20-30 = Tin (Silver ) and Iron (Gold )
Lv30-50 = Iron (Gold) and Mithril (Truesilver)
Lv40-60 = Mithril(Truesilver) and Thorium (Rich Thorium)

If you can't find the next step of material... level up and "POOF" you'll be tripping over the element you need. Given an infinite supply of copper and tin you can get to 125 skill in a couple of hours. The Iron is usually better guarded and requires some battle to reach. Mithril and truesilver are common as DIRT in the level 40+ zones.

Remember the sickening amount of competition you had over copper veins? Thorium is the opposite. You're not gonna have 1000 other artisan Level miners competing against you in Un-Goro Crater for the same node. You have to fight much harder to get to that ore.

Iron ore... Duskwood along the mountains. Check the Ogre mounds and the werewolf caves (Lv 24 to 31). Redridge along the mountains ( Lv 24+ orcs ). Alternate spots are the Badlands for Iron and Mithril (Lv 35 to 45 beasts). Also, check mines and instances. Level 30+ instances should have Iron. Level 40+ Instances have Mithril.

Go NE of the crossroads to the dry hills where a bunch on harpies live. Me and a friend found copper and tin veins and one silver vein there. Just circle around the edge of the mountin and repeat as often as you like. There is also a chest out there that I got a gold bar out of.

without having tried mining, only herbalism and skinning, it just seems to me that the other gathering skills would work along a similar path. like this person said, try the other zones as you levelled up.

i did see a silver vein today though, while hunting humanoids/treasure chests in some caves where i know a lot of tin appears. so now this thread helps explain why.

What level do youhave to have to mine iron?

woot, thanky, now I know where to go for Iron!

If you looking for iron/gold in particular in thousand needles then hit the gryphon ledge which is on the southern edge of thousand needles. There is tons of iron up there and a rare Elite spawn every once in awhile at the very top to boot.