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Mining Classic Mining
Smelt Mithril
A Mining recipe learned at Classic Mining 1 that crafts Mithril Bar from 1 reagent.
Reagents
1Mithril Ore5 gold1 silver
Crafts
Background
Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 71 silver85 copper. Listings are asking prices, not sales.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 5 gold1 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 6 gold3 silver
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 30 silver15 copper
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- 71 silver85 copper (+14%)
- Evidence: 57 current listings holding 36,404 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mithril Ore Metal & Stone · 56,008 on the Auction House | 1 | 5 gold1 silver | 5 gold1 silver | 100% |
| Total per craft | 5 gold1 silver | 100% |
About Smelt Mithril
One craft takes 1 Mithril Ore. Mithril Bar is itself a reagent in 60 other recipes (Blacksmithing, Engineering and Alchemy).
- Recipe category
- Smelting (Mining)
Mithril Bar tooltip
Mithril Bar: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 7% 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 gold50 silver
- 30-day low
- 3 gold Oct 18
- 30-day high
- 125 gold Oct 23
- 30-day median
- 9 gold15 silver
- 7-day median
- 9 gold74 silver
- Hourly snapshots
- 691
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Mithril 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 Alchemy); Relic of the Past IV takes the most, 5 per craft.
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Smelt Mithril cost 5 gold1 silver.
Break-even is 5 gold27 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 6 gold3 silver, which clears it.
At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 1 gold2 silver; the Auction House would keep 30 silver15 copper of a sale, leaving 71 silver85 copper. That is an estimated 14.3% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 29.6% of the gross.
Listing depth right now: 36,404 units across 57 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 Mithril Ore
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