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Mining Classic Mining
Smelt Dark Iron
A Mining recipe learned at Classic Mining 1 that crafts Dark Iron Bar from 1 reagent.
Reagents
8Dark Iron Ore22 gold73 silver
Crafts
Background
Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 20 gold34 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 181 gold84 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 170 gold
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 8 gold50 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −20 gold34 silver (-11%)
- Evidence: 19 current listings holding 6,856 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dark Iron Ore Metal & Stone · 11,498 on the Auction House | 8 | 22 gold73 silver | 181 gold84 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 181 gold84 silver | 100% |
About Smelt Dark Iron
One craft takes 8 Dark Iron Ore. Dark Iron Bar is itself a reagent in 31 other recipes (Blacksmithing, Engineering and Jewelcrafting).
- Recipe category
- Smelting (Mining)
Dark Iron Bar tooltip
Dark Iron Bar: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 3% below its 30-day median.
- Now
- 170 gold
- 30-day low
- 125 gold50 silver Nov 2
- 30-day high
- 189 gold Oct 8
- 30-day median
- 175 gold50 silver
- 7-day median
- 171 gold95 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 693
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Dark Iron Ore. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it.
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Smelt Dark Iron cost 181 gold84 silver.
Break-even is 191 gold41 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 170 gold, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −11 gold84 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 8 gold50 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 20 gold34 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -11.2% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 6,856 units across 19 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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