Mining Recipes - Cost to Craft & Profit

Mining at current prices

Every figure is an estimate at current lowest listed prices: listings are asking prices, not sales. A craft is ranked here only when its finished item and every reagent have a current listing, the estimated profit survives Blizzard’s 5% Auction House cut, enough people are listing the finished item that its price is a market rather than one seller’s ask, and that lowest listing is within 3 times its own 30-day median.

21 of the 45 Mining recipes clear that bar right now. Of the rest, 23 lose money at current prices and 1 have a reagent or an output with no current listing, so no estimate is claimed for them.

Ranked crafts

21of 45 recipes

Top estimated profit

660 gold29 silverone craft, after the cut

Typical ranked craft

3 gold39 silvermedian of the ranked list

No estimate

1a price is missing, so none is guessed

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 →

Where the money is

• Biggest estimated profitSmelt Hardened Khorium660 gold29 silver estimated, per craftmaterials 1,524 gold · keeps 29% of the listed value
• Keeps the most of its listed valueSmelt Bronze4 gold50 silver estimated, per craftmaterials 4 gold · keeps 47% of the listed value
• Smallest material billSmelt Tin33 silver estimated, per craftmaterials 1 gold · keeps 15% of the listed value

Best Mining crafts right now

The 12 Mining crafts with the highest estimated profit that clear the market bar, highest first. Listed value is the finished item’s lowest listed price times the items one craft makes; Break-even is the listed value that would cover the materials and the 5% cut; Keeps is the share of the listed value left after both. Listings are asking prices, not sales.

Recipe	Crafts	Materials	Listed value	Break-even	Estimated profit	Keeps
Smelt Hardened Khorium	Hardened Khorium	1,524 gold70 silver	2,299 gold99 silver	1,604 gold94 silver	660 gold29 silver	29%
Smelt Enchanted Elementium	Enchanted Elementium Bar	2,388 gold33 silver	2,900 gold	2,514 gold3 silver	366 gold67 silver	13%
Smelt Hardened Adamantite	Hardened Adamantite Bar	129 gold90 silver	175 gold	136 gold73 silver	36 gold35 silver	21%
Smelt Dark Iron	Dark Iron Bar	168 gold8 silver	206 gold99 silver	176 gold92 silver	28 gold56 silver	14%
Smelt Hardened Elementium	Hardened Elementium Bar	158 gold	185 gold51 silver	166 gold31 silver	18 gold23 silver	10%
Smelt Felsteel	Felsteel Bar	93 gold48 silver	104 gold99 silver	98 gold40 silver	6 gold26 silver	6%
Smelt Titanium	Titanium Bar	131 gold94 silver	144 gold69 silver	138 gold88 silver	5 gold51 silver	4%
Smelt Bronze	Bronze Bar	4 gold52 silver	9 gold50 silver (2 per craft)	4 gold75 silver	4 gold50 silver	47%
Smelt Obsidium	Obsidium Bar	19 gold38 silver	24 gold99 silver	20 gold40 silver	4 gold36 silver	17%
Smelt Trillium	Trillium Bar	95 gold60 silver	105 gold	100 gold63 silver	4 gold15 silver	4%
Smelt Saronite	Saronite Bar	17 gold44 silver	21 gold93 silver	18 gold35 silver	3 gold39 silver	16%
Smelt Gold	Gold Bar	10 gold	12 gold98 silver	10 gold52 silver	2 gold33 silver	18%

Where to go next

• Farming routesWhere the reagents in these recipes are gathered.
• All profession guidesLeveling paths for every profession that has one.