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MiningWoW Forever profession planner · 18 recipes · beta client via Wowhead Forever, 2026-10-31

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18 recipes

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■ Orange: always skills up■ Yellow: usually■ Green: rarely■ Grey: never■ Locked: skill too lowNEW new in Forever

Mining in Forever: what is new

Smelting, the new Lodestone, Azerothium and Heavy Thorium, plus the Rock Garden and Molten Foundry camp objects. Counts compare the Forever beta client with Classic Era, as read by Wowhead Forever on 2026-10-31.

All 6 new Mining recipes (table)

Recipe	Learn	Bands	Reagents	Taught by
Mining	0	0/1/1/1	—	—
Lodestone	20	20/20/22/25	1 Rough Stone, 1 Copper Bar	Quest, Trainer
Rock Garden	140	140/140/142/145	2 Heavy Stone, 1 Iron Ore, 1 Silver Bar	Drop, Vendor
Smelt Azerothium	275	275/275/275/275	2 Pitchblende, 1 Coal	Trainer
Molten Foundry	300	300/300/300/300	5 Thorium Bar, 2 Dense Stone, 1 Truesilver Bar	—
Smelt Heavy Thorium	300	300/300/307/315	1 Heavy Thorium Ore	Trainer

Reagent sources for Mining

Where every Mining reagent comes from (25 items)

Reagent	Where to get it
Arcanite Bar	Alchemy transmute (skill 275): 1 Thorium Bar + 1 Arcane Crystal, 2-day cooldown. Buy from alchemists or the auction house.
Coal	Vendor: Mining Supplies vendors next to Mining trainers (about 5s).
Copper Bar	Smelt Copper Ore (Mining 1). One ore per bar; buy ore on the auction house if you are not a miner.
Copper Ore	Mining 1+: Copper Veins in every starting zone and its neighbour (Elwynn, Westfall, Dun Morogh, Loch Modan, Teldrassil, Darkshore, Durotar, the Barrens, Mulgore, Tirisfal, Silverpine).
Dark Iron Ore	Mining 230+: Dark Iron Deposits in Blackrock Depths, Searing Gorge, Burning Steppes and Molten Core.
Dense Stone	Mining 250+: a by-product of Thorium Veins.
Elemental Flux	Vendor: Blacksmithing Supplies vendors in capitals (about 1g 50s, limited stock).
Elementium Ore	Mining: nodes of the matching tier; see the Mining route on the professions page.
Fiery Core	Drops from Molten Core bosses and trash.
Gold Ore	Mining 155+: Gold Veins, a rare spawn in place of Iron Deposits (Arathi, Badlands, Stranglethorn, Thousand Needles).
Heavy Stone	Mining 125+: a by-product of Iron and Gold Deposits.
Heavy Thorium Ore	Mining: nodes of the matching tier; see the Mining route on the professions page.
Iron Bar	Smelt Iron Ore (Mining 125).
Iron Ore	Mining 125+: Iron Deposits in Arathi, Hillsbrad, Thousand Needles, Desolace, Stranglethorn, Alterac, Badlands, Dustwallow.
Mithril Ore	Mining 175+: Mithril Deposits in Badlands, Tanaris, the Hinterlands, Feralas, Searing Gorge, Burning Steppes, Un'Goro, Azshara.
Pitchblende	(Forever) New Thorium-tier ore (Mining pack). Smelt Azerothium (Mining 275, taught by Mining trainers) turns it into Azerothium Bars with Coal.
Rough Stone	Mining 1+: a by-product of Copper Veins.
Silver Bar	Smelt Silver Ore (Mining 75). Silver is a rare vein; watch the auction house.
Silver Ore	Mining 75+: Silver Veins, a rare spawn in place of Tin Veins (Hillsbrad, Wetlands, the Barrens, Thousand Needles, Stonetalon).
Thorium Bar	Smelt Thorium Ore (Mining 250).
Thorium Ore	Mining 250+: Small and Rich Thorium Veins in Un'Goro, Winterspring, Burning Steppes, Eastern and Western Plaguelands, Silithus, Azshara.
Tin Bar	Smelted by a Miner from the matching ore at a forge.
Tin Ore	Mining 65+: Tin Veins in Westfall, Redridge, Loch Modan, Wetlands, Darkshore, Ashenvale, the Barrens, Stonetalon, Hillsbrad, Silverpine.
Truesilver Bar	Smelt Truesilver Ore (Mining 230). Rare vein, usually bought.
Truesilver Ore	Mining 230+: Truesilver Deposits, a rare spawn beside Mithril (Badlands, Tanaris, Hinterlands, Searing Gorge, Un'Goro).

Beta values. Trainer learn levels and drop sources for re-tuned recipes are still being confirmed; "Source not yet confirmed" means Wowhead's Forever database has no drop or vendor listed yet. Which pair to take: professions by class. Gold per bracket: gold & profession planner. Camp objects: the Tier 1 object at skill 20 comes from the Camping 101 quest or trainer; Tier 2 (140) and Tier 3 (300) are Blueprints.

Recipes, skill bands and reagents from Wowhead Forever (2026-10-31); the "where to get it" notes are ours and cite Wowhead item pages and the Forever beta guides. Data from talentsforever.com (CC BY 4.0), read from the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60 (Forever beta). Updated 2026-10-31. World of Warcraft is a trademark of Blizzard Entertainment; this is a fan site.