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Where's Goldmine?

Where's Goldmine? is a quest for level 30-35 in Deepholm. It is step 1 of 57 in the Deepholm, War & Gunships storyline, the opening step. The quest's turn-in marker is in Deepholm at 46.5, 57.3. It rewards 1 reputation reward and 600 experience.

Description

My goblin initiate has been gone for quite some time. His name is Goldmine.

I sent him out to observe the local rock flayers southwest at the Quartzite Basin. Perhaps you would be willing to find him? When you do, please ask him to come back to the temple.

Rewards

Experience600 XP
ReputationThe Earthen Ring +10
Top Comments

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Whiterock+17via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Middle World Pillar Fragment Quest Tree From Whiterock

          a)Where's Goldmine?
          /            \
a)Something that Burns a)Explosive Bonding Compound
          \            /
          a)Apply and Flash Dry
          a)Take Him to the Earthcaller
          b)To Stonehearth's Aid
          b)The Quaking Fields
          /            \
b)Elemental Ore        b)The Axe of Earthly Sundering
          \            /
          b)One With the Ground
          b)Bring Down the Avalanche(2nd version)
          /            \
c)We're Surrounded     c)Stonefather's Boon
c)Thunder Stones       c)Sealing the Way
 |            \        /            |
d)Fixer Upper d)Battlefront Triage d)Shatter Them!
          \    |                   /
          d)Troggzor the Earthinator
          d)Rush Delivery
          d)Close Escort
          e)Keep Them off the Front
          /            \
e)Mystic Masters       e)Reactivate the Constructs
          \            /
          f)Down Into the Chasm
          /            \
f)Sprout No More       f)Fungal Monstrosities
          \            /
          f)A Slight Problem
          g)Rescue the Stonefather... and Flint
          g)The Hero Returns
          g)The Middle Fragment   The World Pillar Fragment*
           |                            /
          The Very Earth Beneath Our Feet*

Legend:
* means another Quest Tree.

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP600
ReputationThe Earthen Ring+10

Reward details

Reputation: The Earthen Ring +10

This gathering of the most powerful shaman of Azeroth seeks to maintain the balance between the world's elemental forces. Their main focus during the cataclysm has been to repair and stabilize the damage caused by Deathwing's arrival.

Reputation group: Cataclysm.

Other quests in Deepholm that reward The Earthen Ring reputation: The World Pillar (+75), The Earth Claims All (+250), Gunship Down (+250), Captain's Log (+75), Diplomacy First (+75), All Our Friends Are Dead (+250).

Item facts are the current retail client’s (ItemSparse); the specialisations for a pick-one item are the ones the Blizzard quest API lists; faction and currency text is the client’s own. Lowest listed price = the US commodity auction house now.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapDeepholmTurn-in marker at 46.5, 57.3, 2 mapped points
World Map

Where to go

Pins are the quest’s own POI points from the current retail client, projected onto the in-game zone map. The game marks one blob as the quest’s turn-in; the rest are objective areas. Points that fall outside a map’s window are dropped rather than guessed at.

Deepholm Quest turn-in 2 mapped points
Deepholm map showing where to go for Where's Goldmine?Turn-inObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #207 46.5 57.3

Coordinates

  • Turn-inDeepholm 46.5, 57.3/way #207 46.5 57.3
  • Objective areaDeepholm 49.5, 53.3/way #207 49.5 53.3

Map coordinates of the pins above. An area the client draws as a shape is given by the centre of its points.

Nearby on the Deepholm map

Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Deepholm, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.

Getting there

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 200 yards north-east

Straight-line distances in yards between the quest’s own map markers (QuestPOI) and the client’s flight-point positions (TaxiNodes); flight paths and terrain are not modelled.

Quest Line

Storyline

Deepholm, War & Gunships

Part 1 of 57.

Next: Explosive Bonding Compound

  1. 1Where's Goldmine?
  2. 2Explosive Bonding Compound
  3. 3Something that Burns
  4. 4Apply and Flash Dry
  5. 5Take Him to the Earthcaller
  6. 6To Stonehearth's Aid
  7. 7The Quaking Fields
  8. 8The Axe of Earthly Sundering
  9. 9Elemental Ore
  10. 10One With the Ground
  11. 11Bring Down the Avalanche
  12. 12Bring Down the Avalanche

Showing steps 1 to 12 of 57.

Storyline order is the client’s own QuestLine data from the current retail build.

Where this quest fits

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Explosive Bonding CompoundDeepholm · Level 30-35

    This guy's the son of the Earthen leader! He almost made it to the temple when he got ambushed by more rock flayers than I can count! We know that the Earthen Stonefather has the middle fragment of the World Pillar. Maybe if we were to heal his son, the Stonefather would give us the fragment?

The storyline at a glance

Deepholm, War & Gunships has 57 steps, from Where's Goldmine? to The World Pillar Fragment.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Deepholm (57).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Deepholm map

Steps, storylines and map placement from the client’s QuestLine, prerequisite and QuestPOI data; neighbouring quest text is Blizzard’s own (quest API), shortened to its opening sentences.

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Quest Location and Connections

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