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Recipe
MiningClassic Mining
Smelt Iron
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 94 silver5 copper. Listings are asking prices, not sales.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 4 gold75 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 5 gold99 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 29 silver95 copper
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- 94 silver5 copper (+20%)
- Evidence: 38 current listings holding 11,090 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
1Iron Ore4 gold75 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iron Ore Metal & Stone · 27,978 on the Auction House | 1 | 4 gold75 silver | 4 gold75 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 4 gold75 silver | 100% |
About Smelt Iron
One craft takes 1 Iron Ore. Iron Bar is itself a reagent in 35 other recipes (Blacksmithing, Engineering, Jewelcrafting and Alchemy).
- Recipe category
- Smelting (Mining)
- Skill-up colours (Classic Mining skill)
- Orange below 100 · Yellow 100 to 124 · Green 125 to 149 · Grey 150 and up
- Skill points per craft
- 1
Iron 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 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
Iron Bar is a reagent in
Philosopher's StoneAlchemy- Transmute: Iron to GoldAlchemy
Barbaric Iron BootsBlacksmithing- Barbaric Iron BreastplateBlacksmithing
- Barbaric Iron GlovesBlacksmithing
- Barbaric Iron HelmBlacksmithing
- Barbaric Iron ShouldersBlacksmithing
- Golden Iron DestroyerBlacksmithing
- Golden Scale LeggingsBlacksmithing
- Green Iron BootsBlacksmithing
- Green Iron BracersBlacksmithing
- Green Iron GauntletsBlacksmithing
and 23 more recipes.
Iron Bar: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 26% 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
- 4 gold50 silver
- 30-day low
- 1 gold Aug 29
- 30-day high
- 10 gold Aug 31
- 30-day median
- 6 gold12 silver
- 7-day median
- 5 gold99 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 687
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Iron Ore. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 2 other recipes (1 Blacksmithing and 1 Enchanting); Relic of the Past III takes the most, 5 per craft.
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Smelt Iron cost 4 gold75 silver.
Break-even is 5 gold - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 5 gold99 silver, which clears it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 1 gold24 silver; the Auction House would keep 29 silver95 copper of a sale, leaving 94 silver5 copper. That is an estimated 19.8% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 24.2% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 11,090 units across 38 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 →
Other recipes that use Iron Ore
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