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MiningClassic Mining
Smelt Copper
Reagent cost, the crafted item's lowest listed price and the estimated profit at that price, from current US Auction House listings - recalculated every snapshot.
Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 89 silver50 copper. Listings are asking prices, not sales.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 1 gold10 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 2 gold10 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 10 silver50 copper
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- 89 silver50 copper (+81%)
- Evidence: 58 current listings holding 43,716 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Recipe facts
- Profession
- Mining
- Requires skill
- 1
- Expansion tier
- Classic Mining
- Item level
- 10
- Reagent slots
- 1
- Cast time
- 1.5 sec
Crafts
Reagents
1Copper Ore1 gold10 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copper Ore Metal & Stone · 295,629 on the Auction House | 1 | 1 gold10 silver | 1 gold10 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 1 gold10 silver | 100% |
About Smelt Copper
One craft takes 1 Copper Ore. It is learned automatically with Classic Mining. Copper Bar is itself a reagent in 39 other recipes (Blacksmithing, Engineering, Jewelcrafting and Leatherworking).
- Recipe category
- Smelting (Mining)
- Skill-up colours (Classic Mining skill)
- Orange below 20 · Yellow 20 to 39 · Green 40 to 59 · Grey 60 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
- How it is learned
- Automatically with Classic Mining
Copper Bar tooltip
More Smelting recipes (Mining)
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- Smelt Bronzeyellow 50, grey 100
- Smelt Silveryellow 100, grey 110
- Smelt Steelyellow 125, grey 135
- Smelt Ironyellow 100, grey 150
- Smelt Goldyellow 150, grey 160
- Smelt Mithrilyellow 150, grey 200
- Smelt Truesilveryellow 200, grey 210
- Enchanted Thorium Baryellow 250, grey 290
- Smelt Thoriumyellow 200, grey 290
- Smelt Enchanted Elementiumyellow 300, grey 300
- Smelt Dark Ironyellow 300, grey 310
Copper Bar is a reagent in
Copper AxeBlacksmithing- Copper Battle AxeBlacksmithing
- Copper BracersBlacksmithing
- Copper Chain BeltBlacksmithing
- Copper Chain BootsBlacksmithing
- Copper Chain PantsBlacksmithing
- Copper Chain VestBlacksmithing
- Copper ClaymoreBlacksmithing
- Copper DaggerBlacksmithing
- Copper MaceBlacksmithing
- Copper ShortswordBlacksmithing
- Gemmed Copper GauntletsBlacksmithing
and 27 more recipes.
Copper Bar: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 12% below its 30-day median. Over these 30 days the lowest listing moved more than tenfold, so a single snapshot, including the one the estimate uses, can sit far from typical.
- Now
- 2 gold10 silver
- 30-day low
- 50 silver Sep 17
- 30-day high
- 6 gold13 silver Sep 2
- 30-day median
- 2 gold39 silver
- 7-day median
- 2 gold20 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 681
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Copper Ore. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 1 other recipe (1 Blacksmithing); Relic of the Past I takes the most, 5 per craft.
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Smelt Copper cost 1 gold10 silver.
Break-even is 1 gold15 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 2 gold10 silver, which clears it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 1 gold; the Auction House would keep 10 silver50 copper of a sale, leaving 89 silver50 copper. That is an estimated 81.4% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 10.5% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 43,716 units across 58 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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