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Mining Classic Mining
Smelt Silver
A Mining recipe learned at Classic Mining 1 that crafts Silver Bar from 1 reagent.
Reagents
1Silver Ore18 gold
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 1 gold85 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 18 gold
- Crafted item, lowest listed price
- 17 gold
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 85 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −1 gold85 silver (-10%)
- Evidence: 21 current listings holding 901 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silver Ore Metal & Stone · 10,942 on the Auction House | 1 | 18 gold | 18 gold | 100% |
| Total per craft | 18 gold | 100% |
About Smelt Silver
One craft takes 1 Silver Ore. Silver Bar is itself a reagent in 19 other recipes (Blacksmithing, Jewelcrafting and Engineering).
- Recipe category
- Smelting (Mining)
Silver Bar tooltip
Also a quest reward: Captain Sanders' Hidden Treasure (Westfall).
Silver Bar: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 33% above 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
- 17 gold
- 30-day low
- 50 silver Nov 2
- 30-day high
- 125 gold Oct 22
- 30-day median
- 12 gold81 silver
- 7-day median
- 14 gold
- 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
Silver 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 Silver cost 18 gold.
Break-even is 18 gold94 silver - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 17 gold, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −1 gold before fees, and the Auction House would still take 85 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 1 gold85 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -10.3% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 901 units across 21 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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