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Recipe
MiningCataclysm Mining
Smelt Hardened Elementium
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 40 gold63 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 168 gold88 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 135 gold
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 6 gold75 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −40 gold63 silver (-24%)
- Evidence: 20 current listings holding 3,920 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
- Cataclysm Mining
- Item level
- 25
- Reagent slots
- 2
- Cast time
- 1.5 sec
Crafts
Reagents
10Elementium Bar16 gold
4Volatile Earth2 gold22 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elementium Bar Metal & Stone · 20,311 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Elementium (Mining) | 10 | 16 gold | 160 gold | 95% |
| Volatile Earth Elemental · 22,319 on the Auction House | 4 | 2 gold22 silver | 8 gold88 silver | 5% |
| Total per craft | 168 gold88 silver | 100% |
About Smelt Hardened Elementium
One craft takes 10 Elementium Bar and 4 Volatile Earth. Hardened Elementium Bar is itself a reagent in 47 other recipes (Blacksmithing, Engineering and Enchanting).
- Recipe category
- Smelting (Cataclysm Mining)
- Skill-up colours (Cataclysm Mining skill)
- Orange below 50 · Yellow 50 to 61 · Green 62 to 74 · Grey 75 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Hardened Elementium Bar tooltip
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- Elementium ShankBlacksmithing
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- Elementium-Edged ScalperBlacksmithing
and 35 more recipes.
Hardened Elementium Bar: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 16% below its 30-day median.
- Now
- 135 gold
- 30-day low
- 100 gold Sep 20
- 30-day high
- 390 gold22 silver Aug 22
- 30-day median
- 160 gold48 silver
- 7-day median
- 145 gold89 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 686
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Elementium Bar. Made with Smelt Elementium (Mining, Cataclysm Mining) from 2 
Elementium Ore. At lowest listed prices that makes one Elementium Bar for 16 gold, against 16 gold listed. Also a required reagent in 55 other recipes (34 Blacksmithing, 12 Jewelcrafting, 6 Engineering and 2 Inscription); Fire-Etched Dagger takes the most, 20 per craft.
Volatile Earth. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 40 other recipes (17 Blacksmithing, 9 Leatherworking, 4 Jewelcrafting and 4 Enchanting); the most per craft: Elementium Guardian (Jewelcrafting, 75 per craft), Punisher's Band (Jewelcrafting, 75 per craft), Dragonkiller Tunic (Leatherworking, 50 per craft), Dream of Deepholm (Tailoring, 30 per craft) and Corded Viper Belt (Leatherworking, 25 per craft).
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 2 reagents for one craft of Smelt Hardened Elementium cost 168 gold88 silver. Most of that is Elementium Bar - 10 at 16 gold each, 160 gold, 94.7% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 177 gold76 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 135 gold, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −33 gold88 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 6 gold75 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 40 gold63 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -24.1% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 3,920 units across 20 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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