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Recipe
MiningClassic Mining
Smelt Gold
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 the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 4 silver75 copper per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 8 gold36 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 8 gold75 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 43 silver75 copper
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −4 silver75 copper (-1%)
- Evidence: 33 current listings holding 3,439 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
1Gold Ore8 gold36 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold Ore Metal & Stone · 11,785 on the Auction House | 1 | 8 gold36 silver | 8 gold36 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 8 gold36 silver | 100% |
About Smelt Gold
One craft takes 1 Gold Ore. Gold Bar is itself a reagent in 34 other recipes (Blacksmithing, Jewelcrafting, Tailoring and Cooking).
- Recipe category
- Smelting (Mining)
- Skill-up colours (Classic Mining skill)
- Orange below 150 · Yellow 150 to 154 · Green 155 to 159 · Grey 160 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Gold Bar tooltip
More Smelting recipes (Mining)
- Smelt Copperyellow 20, grey 60
- Smelt Tinyellow 40, grey 75
- Smelt Bronzeyellow 50, grey 100
- Smelt Silveryellow 100, grey 110
- Smelt Steelyellow 125, grey 135
- Smelt Ironyellow 100, grey 150
- 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
Gold Bar is a reagent in
Blade of Unholy MightBlacksmithing- Bracers of VengeanceBlacksmithing
- Bucket KickersBlacksmithing
- Golden Iron DestroyerBlacksmithing
- Golden Scale BootsBlacksmithing
- Golden Scale CoifBlacksmithing
- Golden Scale CuirassBlacksmithing
- Golden Scale GauntletsBlacksmithing
- Golden Scale LeggingsBlacksmithing
- Golden Scale ShouldersBlacksmithing
- Golden Skeleton KeyBlacksmithing
- Inlaid Mithril CylinderBlacksmithing
and 22 more recipes.
Gold Bar: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 14% 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
- 8 gold
- 30-day low
- 3 gold98 silver Sep 18
- 30-day high
- 197 gold Aug 30
- 30-day median
- 9 gold30 silver
- 7-day median
- 8 gold95 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 682
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Gold Ore. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it.
Other recipes that make Gold Bar
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Smelt Gold cost 8 gold36 silver.
Break-even is 8 gold80 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 8 gold75 silver, which does not clear it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 39 silver; the Auction House would keep 43 silver75 copper of a sale, leaving −4 silver75 copper. That is an estimated -0.6% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 112.2% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 3,439 units across 33 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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