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Verified - US Auction House - Crafting material
Gold Ore
Metal & Stone
Verified US market
Commodities share one Auction House per region, so this price applies account-wide on US realms. Verify in-game before you trade.
Gold Ore details
| Type | Metal & Stone |
|---|---|
| Item level | 10 |
| Max stack | 1,000 |
| Vendor sell price | 5 silver |
| Expansion | Classic |
| First seen in our data | build 1.15.9.68940 |
Read from the 12.1.0.69875 game build. Prices are US Auction House data.
What Gold Ore is used in
Mining
| Recipe | Skill tier and category | Needs | Other reagents | Makes | Lists at (US) | Reagents per craft |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Smelt Gold | Classic Mining, Smelting, grey at 160 | 1 |  Gold Bar | 8 gold | 8 gold |
"Needs" is how many one craft consumes. Reagent cost adds up the required materials at the cheapest current listing of each; it is left blank when any reagent has no live price. Recipes, quantities, products and skill tiers are read from the game data.
Crafting value of Gold Ore
Gold Ore goes into one recipe, Smelt Gold, taught in Classic Mining.
Its product, Gold Bar (recipe: Smelt Gold), from Classic Mining, lists at 8 gold on the US Auction House.
One craft of Smelt Gold takes 1 Gold Ore; at current prices those reagents cost 8 gold69 silver per craft.
Further down the chain, Gold Bar is itself a reagent in 34 recipes, such as Golden Iron Destroyer, Massive Iron Axe and Golden Scale Coif.
Leveling and recipes for Gold Ore
Smelt Gold (Smelting) turns yellow at Mining skill 150 and grey at 160.
How to make Gold Ore
Create Gold OreCrafting recipes that create this material.
What Gold Ore is crafted into
Gold Bar (Metal & Stone). Made with Smelt Gold, 1 Gold Ore per craft.
Gold Ore: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 17% below its 30-day median. Over these 30 days the lowest listing moved more than tenfold, so a single snapshot can sit far from typical.
| Now | 8 gold69 silver |
|---|---|
| 30-day low | 4 gold60 silver Sep 20 |
| 30-day high | 50 gold Sep 12 |
| 30-day median | 10 gold45 silver |
| 7-day median | 9 gold60 silver |
| Hourly snapshots | 682 |
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Gold Ore by region
The lowest listing is 17% lower in Europe (EU) than in Americas and Oceania (US). Each region is a separate Auction House, so gold and items do not move between them.
| Region | Lowest listed price | Listings | Units |
|---|---|---|---|
| Americas and Oceania (US) | 8 gold36 silver | 113 | 11,785 |
| Europe (EU) | 6 gold91 silver | 133 | 16,812 |
Other reagents in the same recipe tiers as Gold Ore
Classic Mining has 13 recipes. Besides Gold Ore, the reagents they call for most are Arcanite Bar (1 recipe), Coal (1 recipe), Copper Bar (1 recipe), Copper Ore (1 recipe), Dark Iron Ore (1 recipe), Elemental Flux (1 recipe), Elementium Ingot (1 recipe), Fiery Core (1 recipe), Iron Bar (1 recipe), Iron Ore (1 recipe).
Ore & Stone priced near Gold Ore
Mithril Ore8 gold
Cobalt Ore Nugget8 gold
Eternium Ore8 gold
Elementium Ore8 gold
Obsidium Ore8 gold
Silver Ore Nugget8 gold
Bismuth8 gold
Desolate Talus7 gold- Gold Bar8 gold
Mithril Bar8 gold
Saronite Ore7 gold
Luminous Flux7 gold
About Gold Ore
Gold Ore is a crafting material in World of Warcraft. This page tracks its verified Auction House price and the recipes that consume it, so you can judge whether it is worth farming, buying, or selling right now.
Demand comes from Mining. When a recipe that uses Gold Ore spikes in value, the material tends to follow, so watch the recipes above alongside the price history.
To read the chart: compare the current lowest listing against the typical range. A price sitting below its recent band is a buy or craft signal; a price above it favors selling or farming. The method matters more than any single number, since commodity prices move between hourly snapshots.