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Mining Northrend Mining
Smelt Cobalt
A Mining recipe learned at Northrend Mining 1 that crafts Cobalt Bar from 1 reagent.
Reagents
1Cobalt Ore14 gold
Crafts
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Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 1 silver25 copper. Listings are asking prices, not sales.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 14 gold
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 14 gold75 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 73 silver75 copper
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- 1 silver25 copper (+0%)
- Evidence: 123 current listings holding 28,126 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cobalt Ore Metal & Stone · 83,948 on the Auction House | 1 | 14 gold | 14 gold | 100% |
| Total per craft | 14 gold | 100% |
About Smelt Cobalt
One craft takes 1 Cobalt Ore. Cobalt Bar is itself a reagent in 49 other recipes (Blacksmithing, Engineering, Jewelcrafting and Inscription).
- Recipe category
- Smelting (Northrend Mining)
Cobalt Bar tooltip
Cobalt Bar: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 6% below its 30-day median.
- Now
- 17 gold90 silver
- 30-day low
- 12 gold Oct 24
- 30-day high
- 32 gold53 silver Nov 3
- 30-day median
- 19 gold6 silver
- 7-day median
- 18 gold99 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 692
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Cobalt Ore. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 3 other recipes (3 Blacksmithing); Relic of the Past III takes the most, 6 per craft.
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Smelt Cobalt cost 14 gold.
Break-even is 14 gold73 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 14 gold75 silver, which clears it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 75 silver; the Auction House would keep 73 silver75 copper of a sale, leaving 1 silver25 copper. That is an estimated 0.1% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 98.3% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 28,126 units across 123 auctions region-wide. Depth separates a market price from a single asking figure, but listings are not sales, so read it alongside the estimate.
Costs use each reagent’s lowest listed price; the estimate is the crafted item’s lowest listed price, times the items one craft makes, minus those reagents and Blizzard’s 5% sale cut. Listings are asking prices, not sales. Recalculated every snapshot and left blank rather than guessed when a price is missing. How we estimate crafting profit →
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