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Comment by Alisdair

Highperch in Thousand Needles is a great place to mine Mithril and Iron while working up your mining skill.

Comment by optimates

Badlands offers a few good locations to hit up for mithril. The best place by far is Lethlor Ravine, where all the dragon whelps are at. The entrance to the south almost always has one node there, while the entrance to the north has one or two as well. The center, off to the left (if you're entering from the south) will have one too. You can hit these three, then cruise along the southern border of the Badlands (several spawns near the rock elementals) and then sweep back in time for the respawn in Lethlor Ravine.

Comment by 30572

On what level it becomes grey?

Comment by Arcanium

When I leveled Mining, I did most of my mithril hunting in the south mountains in Tanaris going west to east then back. Not sure how good that place is now since I did my leveling 1year+ ago

Comment by 36214

If you're a higher level looking for skillups and you're in the mithril range, I highly suggest going to Uldaman. Theres several mithril nodes, sometimes some iron as well .. along with the Indurium veins, which may be pretty much useless but you can still skill up on them. Don't have to worry about competition for nodes, and when you mine them all, just reset and go again. If you run out of instances (too many per hour), just run over to Lethlor Ravine and pick up nodes there to wait it out.

Comment by Vetis

Alright, I did alot of reading and alot of research in order to find a perfect mining place for myself and truth be told I only found it because I looked at the wowhead Arathi Highlands map showing mithril nodes. http://i10.tinypic.com/673x8a8.jpg I located 3 seperate spawning mithril nodes that basically nobody touches because the majority of this trek is underwater.
That said, this probably isn't very ideal for you if you don't have a way to breathe underwater or have water walking, this was great for my shaman as the naga in the water drop regeants for both spells, too. On that link I mapped out a path to follow, starting near Stromgarde keep, there is plenty of aggro along this path so don't bother if your trying to be sneaky, its good for leveling mind you. With water breathing and walking I completed this cycle in time for the nodes to respawn just as I arrived, sometimes a little after. That said there is also some iron that you can mine if it gets in your way too, enjoy. :) I made alot of money with this run and powerleveled my guild engineer's skill as well.

Mujah

Comment by 24919

From 7:25 am PST to 8:25 am PST I mined here, I ran around the outside border and ended up with the following:

20 Mithril Deposits
5 Trusilver Deposits
1 Gold Deposit
4 Iron Deposits.

Comment by Wildhorn

If you are lvl 40 with a mount, Tanaris is great for Mithril. Just run around the map follow the mountain edges. You can get an easy 10 nods per turn and it give time to the first nods you mined to respawn, so you can run to infinite. There is also 2-3 small thorium vein on the way

Comment by 45549

If you are going to mine the mithril because you are leveling mining fast, hes the strat I used. Go to hinterlands at whatever level you learn Mithril (175 I think) and then start looking there for it. Here get lots of Mithril, Iron, and Gold. Then at 225 when you max it out, go train to 300, and go to Tanaris. This is becuase by going to Tanaris for the last 5 points, you are closer to Winterspring (Still far I know, but at least same continent) where the Truesilver is. Works great!

Comment by tiwaly

The best place is Blasted Lands and 54.10 around go to mine pick up all and go castle ( for alliance ) smelt and do any thing than go back and farm again.... i think easy

Comment by 2338

I believe most, if not all the nodes around Seradane have been removed. 6-8 circuts around the map and havn't gotten a single node in Seradane.

Comment by 40604

I found 2-3 nodes in Seradane in three circuits of Hinterlands. Hinterlands is very tedious; as said before. I feel Badlands is the same because there are so many small passages between the rocks.

I'm trying to fly through my mining skill, so I'll give Tanaris a shot. I'll do a couple circuits of Searing Gorge once I get >240 skill (230 right now).

Comment by 71722

Looking for mithril in Tanaris is a total waste of time. I did 3 consecutive circuits around this zone. The result is just only 1 node and that was 100 yards away from Gadgetzan. Hinterlands seem to be more productive but the nodes are mostly nearby hostile mobs.

Comment by 71502

Just did a circuit in Badlands. Got 44 Mithril and 18 Iron. This is after I tried Hinterlands. Took about as long and I only found 3 Veins there.

Comment by 74106

Im thinking its just a matter of luck i found a crap load of mithril veins in hinterlands just going around the permimeter and people say they only got one vein so that my opinion

Comment by 58016

If you are after mithril for the mithril order quests in STV, (needs 120 bars at this stage, along with 40 iron, 5 truesilver and 4 citrines) I found a good place to find it is the crystalmine down by the arena and zombie ruins in STV. The outside has 1-2 mithril nodes along with a gold/iron. Inside are 3-4 mithril and 3-4 iron nodes, the mobs in here are lvl 43-44 basilisks and are nicely spaced.

Comment by 74798

i find out that hinterland is a GREAT place for it ( well another reason b/c i was training there 2 lol:P) i usually get around 1.5-2 stacks( most of time more than that though, but just saying lowest chance) per circle... GREAT to farm there... SUPER GREAT while u questing there 2 lol GL with ming

Comment by 95352

I was just in hinterlands, and didn't nearly find as much mithril as the maps says, actually scary how much less....anyone else notice this?

Comment by Benjii

For me, following the mountain edges and the hills in Badlands gives me roughly 40 Mithril bars/ores per full circuit around the zone.

Comment by Benjii

Silithus is IMO much better. Since at lvl 70 you can go down deep into the hives that sometimes contain one or several Oozecovered Rich Thorium Veins. My place to grind

Comment by 79687

the charred vale between desolace and stonetalon mtns is a small area but offers good mithril as well u find around 6-10 nods if this has been mentioned alrdy just saying again then

Comment by Amenn

There are about 4-5 nodes at Lethlor Ravine, just east of Angor Fortress, in Badlands.

Comment by 99801

i would really like to thank Vetis for his post about the circuit in Arathi Highlands. it really worked

Comment by 36214

If you need both Thorium and Mithril, here's what I suggest. Starting in Gadget, head southeast towards Caverns of Time. From there, head south and follow the outside of the country until you get to the path leading into Un'Goro, where you should make a full circuit before heading back into Tanaris. It's a long trip for the whole route, but I personally find it much less boring than running back and forth over the same path every 5-10 minutes.

Comment by 117763

im already maxedat mining so at lvl 69 ican go newhere for this. i just finished using mithril and i found that the best place to go for it was the hinterlands. just circle the area while staying near the mountains. got around 100 mithril in about an hour doing this. of course if thats 2 high lvl tanaris is the next best place. the silithid caves always have veins with thorium as well and the southern mountains are usually stocked with a lot of mithril.

Comment by Strife

For some reason I am not getting much luck at all in the hinterlands. In roughly 2.5 circuits of the hinterlands I only picked up 29 mithril, 3 iron and 2 gold (my skill's only 200 so I couldn't pick up the couple of truesilvers I came upon). I start at raventusk, and I just follow the southern mountain edges until I'm almost to aerie peak, then I just shoot across to the northern mountains and coast along that all the way around seradane and back down the overlook cliffs. Am I doing something wrong or do I just have really bad luck?

Edit - Just did 1 circuit and I got 24 mithril, very good.

Comment by 99012

Is there any add-ons to find nodes?PLS reply i realy need this

Comment by 124807

The Cartographer plugin is really handy for this (as well as other map related things). There are three parts: Cartographer, Cartographer_Data, and Cartographer_Mining. When you have all three installed, the map will be updated to show you spawn points others have found. The deposit may or may not be at the spawn point at that moment, however: it's just where one was found by someone using Cartographer. The mini-map will also show the direction of nearby spawn points.

Cartographer is an ACE plugin, so if you get an ACE updater, you'll be able to easily get all the updates (it's updated frequently... mainly with new data).

Comment by ArgentSun

I've found Tanaris probably the best place to mine those. Just go around in circles around the whole zone. Easily 40+, up to maybe even 60 in one run, +few Small Thoriums. The Hinterlands I assume is good too, but I couldn't find as many. Some of them are well behind hordes of trolls, others - behind oozes, I don't think it's worth the fight. The northernmost part, where the dragon spawns, usually has 1 or 2, because almost nobody mines them and there aren't really any mobs that can't be avoided.

Comment by Schett

http://wow.thenoobschool.com/power-level-mining-guide-1-375

Comment by scyap

im a Horde JC+miner and i think that Arathi Highlands isnt a bad place too cuz i get Mithril Ore at east Hammerfall and then go to hammerfall and Smelt it (there is a forge+anvil there)

Comment by Zeluha

Just a note that I saw just barely touched on in Hinterlands and other areas where the spawns of mithril are in WORLD DRAGON spawning areas:

Don't go in there pre-60 without some way of completely dropping all aggro (eg: Feign Death or Vanish). Even then, the elite dragonkin that pat around the world dragon spawn areas can see through stealth pre-60 and resist a lot of the distracts I attempted to throw at them at level 55.

Comment by 194868

I found one good place to mine Mithril is in the cave in the southeast part of the Arathi Highlands, right where it shows on the map above. It's also a very good source of Iron and has a single Truesilver deposit in the western part of the cave. I suggest only going in if you're at least level 35, maybe as low as 33 if you're strong enough. Just watch out for trolls, they're very feisty.

Comment by Chaserbl

If you wanna farm Mithril ore in hinterlands just start from south, from Horde base, best on 60+ level so you don't aggro mobs they can be so annoying :P, and just go down the whole mountain side where the trolls are and then straight up to north make circles, but most mithril is on southern part of Hinterlands.

Comment by toastmaster7727

As a lvl 61 hunter, I ran around The Hinterlands for approximately an hour and obtained:

x61
x12
x7
x2

If you have better results in Tanaris please inform me for I need alot of Mithril to level my Jewelcrafting. If anyone is going to farm The Hinterlands, I reccomend hitting Hiri'Watha, Shadra'Alor, Jintha'Alor, Skulk Rock, and the Temple of Zul. Seradane also has alot of veins but also has alot of lvl 62 elite mobs running around.

Comment by 200743

The Hinterlands is an amazing place to farm for mithril. I farmed 80 bars in a little over an hour, making 30g per stack on the AH. As long as it is not being farmed by anybody else, you should hit an average of about 20 bars per cycle. On a 60% speed mount, it took me about 15 minutes per cycle. So if you're craving for some fast, easy gold, it doesn't hurt to farm here. :)

Comment by gandalfthegrey

If you're looking for a place with a lot of mithril mines nearby, get to the Armory cave in the Blasted Lands (just west of Nethergarde Keep). There are a 6-9 mithril mines, but they are concentrated in the same place. I've been doing circuits in The Hinterlands, but there are many mobs and it gets a little time-consuming to kill them (I'm lvl 46), so I find this mobless mithril-rich cave a very nice place.

Greetings from Cuba!

Comment by gandalfthegrey

I just came back from doing a full circuit in the above mentioned cave (Garrison Armory) and it's surroundings, here are the results:

Mithril: 10 nodes, 35 ore
Truesilver: 1 node, 4 ore.
Thorium: 4 nodes, 11 ore.

Total time: 13 minutes (expect to improve it as I get to know the cave).

Sounds to me like it's a GREAT place. And no mobs at all (for Alliance players at least: all the miners in there are friendly).

Comment by 234831

Blasted is also a good spot to get mithrill ores

Comment by 266202

Tanaris and Hinterlands for Mithril...easily got 200, quickly.
Amazing for the engineering level i was at...you need alot of Mithril

Comment by 270102

I think Un'Goro Crater and Tanaris is the best place for mining Mithril ores. =)

Comment by 281522

What is the Respawn time of the nodes?
I've always wondered that.

Comment by JamieK

Well, my brother is trying to level up his mining skill on his dk and he went through all Tanaris and found no mithril at all...maybe just bad luck

Comment by 219507

I found like three nodes in Agol'watha in the Hinterlands. Two in the little village itself, one in the waterfall of the nearby lake.

Truly Hinterlands is best for Mithril farming.

Comment by aelisel999

Just for your information, my one hour farm totals from the Hinterlands was:

Mithril Ore x 66
Solid Stone x 54
Iron Ore x 10
Heavy Stone x 4
Thorium Ore x 2
Dense Stone x 3
Gold Ore x 2
Truesilver Ore x 12
Citrine x 1
Aquamarine x 2

Comment by fiote

Does anyone knows how many nodes there are in Uldaman?

Comment by Kalthos

Watch out for high level players on PvP realms, they leave me alone until it looks like i'm gonna get to a vein before them, then they just gank me :(

Makes the Hinterlands and Badlands circuits much more difficult.

However at level 52 I was able to do the area around Seradane in the Hinterlands without aggroing the elites or the boss, so should be doable by someone with a brain in their head :D

Comment by kgurnhill

Camped a Node in Hinterlands in Seradane and the first node i mined regenned after 5mins 31secs (Ingame stop watch)
and it didnt regenerate for a significantly longer time (got bored after 10mins and left) soo theres no exact Repop time in it

http://www.wow-professions.com/wowguides/wow-mining-guide.html

Great Mining gyude :D also has links to other professions in guide :D got my LW on another char to 420 in just 1.5 days (includes Getting mats myself!) :)

Also... howd you do that 1/2 thing? :)

Comment by 12634

I like that there are six pictures of a Mithril deposit uploaded here. I love nerds.

Comment by 242699

Is there a recent map of the nodes since the patch bundles the ores together which is kinda hard to find?

Comment by 319464

On my server, this has become more profitable then the ores from northrend. They go for 40g per stack right now, probably because nobody is taking the time to farm these lower level ores right now. It might be worth looking into if you are short on gold and want some easy money.

Comment by 35800

Be sure to mine any truesilver as well even if you don't need it. It is a rarespawn of mithril and will keep that node from respawning as mithril if you don't mine it.

Comment by Jolster

I went though Hinterlands and had a great run.

I just one trip around the edge of the map and though the bit with the dragons i mined

11xMithril Ore
3 x Iron Ore
3 x Gold Ore

and passed 4-5 Small thorium Veins

This worked well for me as mining i need Mithril and BS i need Iron so i recomend try here.

EDIT!
due to cata this area no longer has mithril ore in it. It is full of iron Deposits. Shame really :(

Comment by Edward13

From what mining lvl can I mining? pls help

Comment by 219269

If you are approximately lvl 30-35 there is a great way of farming 15-20 mithril ores just running around Thousand Needles. My favorite route is just run to the Splithoof Hold (make sure you check the whole cave, there are 1-2 mithril veins pretty much always), then run up to Highperch and check every corner. Usually I can find 3-4 deposits there, then I just run to the rustmaul digsite and find 2-3 ores there. And voila.

Comment by ghost9er9er9

It's quite ridiculous...mithril is selling for 42g (both ore and bar) per stack. That is about 2.2x the amount of saronite ore. The server is Whisperwind Alliance..it's nuts!

Comment by 367253

Just did a round today because i need some Mithril Ore for one of my alts and got all this in one circle:

Mithril x35
Truesilver x9
Iron x2
thorium x2

and as a side note, Mithril Ore is selling 45g per stack and 60g per stack of bars on my server(deathwing). The only other ore/bar that outsells this in my server is Titanium (75g a stack for ore and 160g a stack of bars)

Comment by BethofHearts

Mithril ore and bars sell the best and highest on AH, due to the fact that in professions like Blacksmithing and Engineering, it has more widespread applications than any other mineral in the game. Therefore it is more valuable and usually the most in demand. In my experience as a miner, Mithril is always the first thing most people have asked to buy from me or trade me for.

Comment by 310272

I tried out the Hinterlands route a few times, without going too deep into the hills. The results were as follows:
- first run - 19 mithril, with 3 nodes just in Seradane
- second run - 19 mithril, 4 nodes in Seradane
- third run - a meager 7 mithril, just one in Seradane
- fourth run - 15, with 2 in Seradane and one particularly hard to reach node in Jintha'Alor

Did this as an Unholy DK, with the mount speed increase which adds up to 120%
Along the way i found about 3 truesilver nodes I couldn't mine and 2 small thorium veins.

Comment by Ne0nguy

I just mined a Mithril Deposit and all I got was Solid Stone.

Comment by 434474

Guys dont beleive in the map. Beleive in Spawn rate. Hinterlands is possibly the last place you would go to. Badlands is great. one lap around there and i got about 58 nodes

Comment by Rhelan

According to the WoWhead map showing veins, it tells that Tanaris, in the western side is a great place to mine for Thorium, so I tested it out. I went into the Noxious Lair and found:
A "Small Thorium Vein" (which I couldn't mine)
and that was that. So, really, it wasn't too helpful.
I think i'll move up to Hinterlands, like everyone says.

Comment by Naturell

The Hinterlands is the best place to mine Mithril, no doubt about it.

Comment by 447611

To make a long story short, the best places to farm Mithril include:
- Badlands (found not to be that bad as long as others are not in the area leveling mining as well)
- Hinterlands (at least on my server, this is a really popular place to level mining. Yes, it has good nodes to mine, but potentially bad that everyone usually hits it up first)
- Alterac Mountains (Not bad. The layout of the land makes it odd to make efficient circuits through)
- Tanaris (Not a bad place either)

Comment by 321609

After checking through Stranglethorn Vale, either I have extremely bad luck or there was some confusion with whoever set up the map, because I have checked all the areas where it shows mithril and have found iron which I really have no use for.

I'm hoping Hinterlands fares better.

Comment by Geekbuster

Alright, from my experience badlands / tanaris is my best choice to farm this. in one run in badlands, got about 2 stacks of mithril in one run. in tanaris, got about 3 stacks of mithril in one run..(tanaris is a bigger area though, so it takes longer time to go 1 run here.

Comment by 333732

i would say that Tanaris and the Hinterlands are probably the best places to do mining of mithril. in Tanaris the mithril is often accompanied by iron and sometimes gold, so its great place to go if you need not only mithril but a good boost to the funds.

the Hinterlands is also a great place to mine because you can often dont even need to look for mithril; if you just go into the cliffs your bound to find some.

Comment by Xarlequin

Farming 180 Mithril in Hinterlands took me 3 hours.
Also got: 30 Iron ores, 17 Thorium ores, 10 gold ores, 14 Truesilver ores, around 200 solid stones, and some random stuff.
I followed the map somebody linked above, but also went into the cave to the north once every 2-3 laps.

I did this as a level 80 DK with talent for mountspeed, and unholy pressence.

So I guess you can say that you get aproximatelly 60 mithril per hour doing this circuit. If your alone in the area, that is.

Comment by 456377

tanaris is the wrst place to farm mithril i found one without spending so much time killing monsters just to get to mithril best place i found is hinterlands, just do full circles and u really dont have to fight many creatures and u get alot of mithril in about 15-30 mins

Comment by Poposhka

it is also noteworthy that said elites are not to be trifled with, not even by level 80 characters.

Comment by Gyaris

Try near the shimmering flats for mithril, will often show up as 'ooze-covered' it's in the bug place.

Comment by Numarki

I have seen Mithril Turn into Gold, but its only happened To me personally in the Badlands. All other Mithril i've mined hasn't turned into Gold

Comment by 497929

were is the best place to mine mithril and not have to run all around the zone besides hinterlands?

Comment by 504194

wats the easiest way to get into the hinterlands

Comment by lovelywaz

There's a path way from Hillsbrad (Southshore) at around 84,32 north east corner, it takes you through the mountains into Hinterlands.

Comment by MasakiKudo

I solo'd those dragons easily with my 80 pally tank. :P

Comment by htgome

came from hinterlands to alterac via hilsbrad... got about 20 ores... was easy

Comment by 223389

Just did a lap in Badlands, ZERO mithril nodes. Something is really strange:

- Rare Mobs x 2
- Iron Node x 2
- Gold Node x 1

Comment by 534091

Due to the terrain hackers, i found that badlands is dead for mithril. :( Trying hinterlands.

Edit: Yes Hinterlands is hands down the best spot for mithril.

Comment by 194093

The southern edge of Tanaris has been far better for me than Hinterlands, due primarily to the large number of mobs surrounding each node in Hinterlands. Most of the reliable mithril deposits are inside hostile troll areas or in the Skulk Cave, full of slimes. Often I'd have to kill two to three mobs for each node, at least doing this as a level 50.

Instead, you can run along the edge of Tanaris from the Southbreak Shore to the ramp to Un'goro and get 6-8 mithril nodes with minimal mobs, and you can generally avoid any that aggro fairly easily.

My preferred mining path runs from Southbreak along the edge of Tanaris, down into Un'goro and mine the thorium all the way to Marshal's, then fly to Gadget and start again, this will have given the Tanaris mithril time to respawn, plus you'll have a pack full of thorium that you'll need for your Imperial Armor quests anyway.

Comment by Javasar

STV <----dont follow by that Node Map...i went to check the big cluster Fck there...only found one

Comment by 562466

Hinterlands was a complete waste of time for me just now (I was the only on farming there on alliance at the time.) Im gonna head over to tanaris and see how it is there.

Comment by 623954

My favorite place to mine mithril is by far The Hinterlands, but as stated its very difficult to get around all the features in it. As well as massive angry mobs and elite dragonkin in one place "note" (they even gave my 80 pally some trouble >_<). So if you are a bit low level i wouldent recomend mining there.

Comment by 179116

I just spend like over 2h mining, and all i got from hinterlands is:

2 staks of mithril,
1 stak of iron,
7 truesilver ores
8 thorium ores..

This farming sucks...

Comment by 700734

I've been leveling engineering and getting mats to it with mining for a while now and I found Badlands the best place. Hinterlands was just pain in the ass and I tried Badlands and that place is full off Mithril. Me likes

E: 20 minutes in Badlands :
30 Mithril ore
22 Iron ore
12 Gold ore
39 Solid stone
20 Heavy stone
1 Jade
1 Star Ruby

It is worth going there :)

Comment by 708110

It appears The Hinterlands are no longer the best place to farm mithril, as the zone level was dropped with 4.0.3a. I farmed The Hinterlands for an hour last night and only saw Iron Deposits. It's looking like The Badlands is going to be the new place to farm mithril.

Comment by 305689

In post-shattering Burning Steppes, I was able to farm about 10 stacks of mithril ore in under an hour. Perhaps it was a fluke thing, or maybe the veins are just much more densely populated now, but I was finding one literally every 5-10 seconds just from running around the edges of the map. Every cave I went into had at least 3-5 veins as well.

Comment by 370608

The previous poster wasn't kidding about Burning Steppes, I was getting Mithril nodes every 10-15 seconds. I checked my factions AH and the price is still very high but I suspect it will fall through the floor once people catch on to this.

Comment by 486737

Guys, I can confirm, Badlands is officially the best place for Mithril. Infact, it's a goldmine of Mithril. It's absolutely EVERYWHERE! Since The Shattering and the reshaping of Azeroth, all the Iron Ore has been wiped from the Badlands and places where you would normally find it, have been replaced with Mithril. Don't take my word for it, see for yourself, I'm not joking. There is also now insane amounts of Gold Ore and Truesilver Ore.

Comment by 2703

Since 4.0.3, Eastern Plaguelands seems to be another good place to mine Mithril. The old places like the Alterac Yeti caves are lower level now and have tin, as does the Hinterlands.

Comment by Aryn2382

On the Kalimdor side of the continent, one absolutely great place for Mithril has been Felwood; there's a cave near Talonbranch Glade that you're practically tripping over respawns, and places all up and down the zone, you will find REAMS of Mithril.

Really, any place that's 40-50 you're likely to see it in droves.

Come to think of it, you can apply that to alot of things at the moment. 30-40 for Iron, with in general they made searching for ore far less asinine.

Check mob levels before looking to mine; I think it's a break at 25 where tin goes to iron, but I've not mapped all zones level-wise.

Comment by jaykaywhy

As of 4.0.3, with The Hinterlands changing to a level ~30 zone, it is no longer an ideal place to farm Mithril.

Edit: At Aryn2382's suggestion, I farmed for Mithril in Felwood.
Farming for an hour yielded me:
317 Mithril Ore
24 Gold Ore
17 Truesilver Ore

Not sure how it compares to other post-Shattering zones, but seems decent enough.

Comment by 708551

As of patch 4.0.3a, there are two great places in particular to mine Mithril. The first is Badlands, where Mithril Deposits are found pretty much all over the place. The second is at the bottom of Thousand Needles. This, of course, means that you'll have to swim a lot. It also means that the competition will most likely be smaller. It's your choice, really.

Comment by pheonix26682

Thousand Needles is a great place to farm this even better if u have done the speed barge quests so u have the buff from them increased speed underwater and can breath to :)

on a side note u also get to see a 7.7mil hp whale shark corpse there to lol

Comment by 716650

SO much mithirl ore to be found in the searing gorge.

Comment by Zetrex

I spent about half an hour in Badlands mining Mithril. Ended up with 129 Mithril ore 5 Truesilver ore 3 Gold ore and 155 Solid Stone. I would say this is a great spot for skilling up.

Comment by 223121

At one point in Searing Gorge I had 8 nodes on my minimap - 5 in the tunnels and 3 on surface. Just picked up 220 Mithril in about 40 minutes here.

Comment by 229149

Extremely quick and easy to farm mithril ore underwater in Thousand Needles for Cataclysm using Speedbarge Diving Helm which is an automated buff applied while questing underwater. Be sure to walk on the bottom for a speed buff.

One 15-minute circuit yielded 12 gold and 79 mithril ore. Very very very few mobs to aggro, and probably not a popular spot at the moment.

Comment by 729771

wowhead shows Burning Steppes as having the most recorded nodes. being closest to SW its the first place i hit. with a flying mount i was able to circle the entire zone in 15 minutes picking up about 8 Mithril stacks with an additional stack of Truesilver. i was barely able to get airborne before landing again to mine. i lost count of how many deposits are active at a time, but there are around 10 deposits between both caves in Dreadmaul Rock alone. these only slowed me down so i skipped them on my second go-round. the last one i mined has already respawned during the typing of this post.

Comment by 760497

I found leveling through mithril quite easy around thousand needles, then I crossed through tanaris to un'goro and mined thorium there. I think mithril is nice in thousand needles.

Comment by 764307

Badlands is the best place to mine mithril.
I got like 30-40 ore´s in just 5-10 mins

Comment by 764827

I found that The Burning Steppes was a great place to get Mithril.
I just did 1 circuit around it and I got:
-54 Mithril ore
-8 Gold ore
-8 Truesilver ore
-2 Citrine
-2 Star Rubies
-and a lot of Solid Stone.

Comment by 457497

Note: Post 4.0 Hinterlands is a level 30 zone and therefore is no longer a good place to farm mithril. Better off farming in one of the other areas

Comment by 578156

Right now, the best place to get mithril (without much difficulty) is thousand needless, plenty of deposits almost everywhere and low lvl mobs. You can also find iron, silver, gold and truesilver in less quantity; and yes, they are submerged but if you did some quests in the zone, you'll probably have the boat and breathing device from the speedbarge... good luck

Comment by Kyndrid

Just started grinding my mining up and flew around burning steppes for mithril. in 20 min i went from 175-225 and i barely left the alliance fp area. Dreadmaul Rock is AMAZING for mithril.

Comment by sakamantas

trust me ( in patch 4.0 ) best place ever to farm mithril ores is burning steps just go there keep running at the edges of map , at the mid of farming head to place called ( dreadmaul rock ) there is on the mountain it self and inside 2 caves 1 north of mountain and 1 south of mountain u will find loads there i got over 5 stacks of ores in less than 3 min :D go and try *** TRUST ME ***

NOTE # mines respawn for me in less than 10 sec

Comment by 610676

Post Cataclysm, I'd recommend Burning Steppes or Felwood. Thousand Needles still has a lot of Mithril, but due to the zone being flooded are slower to get to.

Comment by Darkcloud0

I personally think Fel Wood is the best place for mithril I've seen so far.

Comment by Jolster

Best place i have found is Thousand Needles. Fly around the edge and i picked up over 100 mithril in one circuit. Very easy place to farm just be prepared to get a bit wet ;)

Comment by 672889

I couldn't stop finding mithril in felwood...3 nodes would randomly pop up on my minimap

Comment by Daocpwnswow

For an easy find to readers post the shattering:

I can up all the comments, mithril is fluent in every zone mentioned. If you are an ally, I suggest Burning Steppes, simply because it's conveniently close to Stormwind. A not fulfilled loop of the zone netted me five stacks of mithril ore and tonnes of solid stones.
When I was at Dreadmaul Rock I noticed my bags were filling up, and said to myself "ok, I'll make my way back to Stormwind flying in a straight line and only picking up nodes that I fly over". Following this 'route', not switching course or falling off this line to pick up nodes on my periferal minimap, I got another stack of ores.

Comment by Azgamergirl

BEST place, any faction is definitely Burning Steppes for mindless farming. No need to fly around the middle to get straggler deposits. Just spin around the outer edges of the zone but dipping in around BRM since theres nothing there. I net about 95-105 mithril a lap. And i dont go in the cave or anything.

Comment by Damonra

Thousand Needles is still a good place to mine Mithril Ore. Within about an hour's time, my lvl 41 Orc Shaman flew from Orgrimmar to Brackenwall Village in Dustwallow Marsh (my nearest FP to Thousand Needles), then rode on a land mount to there. I was able to pick up:

86 Mithril Ore
6 Gold Ore
10 Iron Ore
2 Silver Ore
96 Solid Stone
15 Heavy Stone

Comment by Damonra

With 109 posts here, I don't have time to check if this has been said yet, so I'm saying it here.

If you go mining, make sure to take the quest Down in the Deeps first. It allows you to breath under water and gives you swim speed of 108%. Walking/running while unbuffed is 100%, for comparison.

Comments on the above link state that once you've done the quest, the buff remains every time you're down here. I haven't checked it out yet.

Edit: Just confirmed. After you hand in the quest, you can still breath under water in Thousand Needles.

Comment by 572232

there is a cave in felwood, the irontree cavern, that place has insane quantities of mithril, and a few truesilver veins if u get lucky. I hightly recomment felwood and especialy that cave to farm mithril, especially for those with hearthstone somewhere in kalimdor.

Comment by 100692

I just found a whole bunch..and i mean a whole bunch in the cave that leads to uldaman..the map screen is dotted all over with mainly mithril..some iron, random copper..just thought i would let you all know and its a fairly compact place..just have to deal with the odd interupts from those bloody dwarves.

Comment by Classified64

Feralas is NOT a good place do NOT go there!

(All my ores are belong to me)

Comment by 718763

the best place to farm mithril is badlands, the deposits are spread all over the map and it is much faster traveling in there as opposed to Thousand Needles, though Thousand Needles is a good place to farm it too but if you are not a druid (with aquatic form) you better go to badlands.

Felwood is a great place too, the mithril deposits are found in the edges of the map, and felwood map is narrow so it is easier to collect the ores...

Comment by sgamer82

For everyone mentioning the outer perimeter of Burning Steppes, you don't even need to do that. Dreadmaul Rock, East of Morgan's Vigil (Alliance) & Flame Crest (Horde), is a magnificent Mithril farming location. Besides the mountain itself, there are two caves that spawn good amounts of Mithril too.

But wait, there's more:
If you do the quest chains in Burning Steppes, you get an item that disguises you as a Blackrock orc/troll/ogre/goblin. This disguise makes Blackrock enemies in certain locations non-hostile, including Dreadmaul Rock.

You get this disguise twice in the course of the quest chain. First early on, at Chiselgrip, then later towards the end when you're actually infiltrating Dreadmaul Rock. I didn't find this out early enough to confirm if the Chiselgrip disguise can be used at Dreadmaul, but as Dreadmaul's the central location of the finishing quests, that one definitely works.

What this boils down to is: Dreadmaul Rock has mithril nodes aplenty and, if you do it right, you can make all the mobs that would otherwise attack you friendly, allowing you to farm at your leisure.

Comment by 621744

Question: Where do you pick up quests for Hinterlands, before heading to the territory?

I'm currently Level45 Alliance, and I need to start a new zone anyways. Might as well get some quest XP while I'm mining.

Comment by 815738

for 61+ mining DKs needing mithril/working on mining, you should head directly to Needles.

You can just run around on the surface/fly(if you have old world flying) and turn off your Path of Frost when you find nodes you'd like to mine. (thus skipping when there are pockets of iron...

Plus there are no hostile mobs in a LARGE section of needles (the mining section has maybe 10 hostile mobs total)

Just...if you're dropping out of the air...don't forget to TURN OFF YOUR POF...thank you this has been your public service announcement for the day....

also do the starting needles quest to get the air bubble on your head.

Mining in needles is far more enjoyable than mining in vash and you get a seahorse in vash, ffs...

Comment by Marloss

Burning Steppes is a great place for farming Mithril Ore in Cataclysm, especially at Dreadmaul Rock. Look in the screenshot section for reference.

Edit: After farming here for some time, I can safely you will never have to wait for the ores to respawn. Ever.

Comment by 671564

After Cata, Thousand Needles is the best place to farm this. Be sure to get your River Boat first though!

EDIT: After having spent more time, I must say Speedbarge Diving Helm is much more use- Just stay under the whole time at get +160% speed on the ocean floor

Comment by 125053

Badlands is a geat places to farm up Iron Ore. From one go around I got,

Map

Mithril Ore x 167
Truesilver Ore x 5
Gold Ore x 10

Solid Stone x 183
Black Vitriol x 4

About 20 minutes to get all of that with a 150% flying mount.

Comment by Ultimay

With no flying mount,

1. Get to lvl 40.

2. Get the warboard quest to thousand needles

3. Do a few quests to get to the speedbarge, do that until you have a river boat

4. Get in your boat and drive around northwest or southeast

5. ?

6. Profit!

Comment by cottog8444

So, end of story, the best place to farm this at low levels is definitely 1k Needles. You get a water-breathing buff and a 160% swim speed buff when you walk along the bottom (after a few quests, of course). With a mount and guild perks, it goes up to 220% like normal, and with darkflight and normal walking, I got to 224%. Not only is the speed nice for low levels, but there are ZERO mobs if you stay away from the giant trench, which has no ore whatsoever.

At higher levels, with faster flying mounts, the best to go would be Felwood for Kalimdor or Burning Steppes for Eastern Kingdoms, as the Steppes gives you a quest item where you can be friendly to the orc mobs near all the best node locations.

Comment by Blaix

Just spent 20 minutes in Burning Steppes to get 140 Mithril bars for my JC to level up. I skipped 1K needles figuring most nodes would be submerged and would take me longer, I am not sure if it would have been a better route considering it may have more truesilver, but here are my findings:

I had 280% flying mount with gathering guild perk, I made 2.5 rounds making SURE I visited Dreadmaul rock (and inside the cave).

6 Truesilver ore
14 Gold Ore
258 Mithril ore (I know I only needed 140 but the place was so dense with nodes I couldnt help myself).
4 Green Gear items
1 Aquamarine
1 Black Vitriol
3 Star Ruby
4 Citrine

I was on an 85 mage so if anything attacked me it was easily one shotted. Hope this helps.

Comment by GWARrior

Post Cataclysm I found one of my favorite areas to be Badlands. Hugging the mountains I was able to collect onward of 400 ores per hour. Doing a simple route starting at New Kargath, and making a big circuit around the area I had very little competition. Plus being a Herbalist/Miner I was able to rack up quite a few Sungrass, Dragon's Teeth, Firebloom and Golden Sansam.

Comment by 842258

I can infact tell you that i did 30 mins in hinterlands and got 2 stacks of mithril ore went to the badlands and did a full circuit and got 3 stacks in 35 mins went to thousand needles and did the quests till i got the item to summon the boat and then used that and the increased water walking and breathing and farmed 200+ as well as 20 iron and 9 gold ore so seems that thousand needles is the place to be for it stay right in the water near the coastline its loaded

Comment by noles

If you are farming mithril in Thousand Needles, and you have a flying mount, you can swim to the surface of the water and mount up and start flying. After I realized this, it sped up my farming a lot.

Comment by Jolster

I have farmed Both Thousand Needles and Burning steppes. Whilst Thousand needles does have more Nodes. You waste more time there swimming down to them, So if anyone does what i do and comes to wowhead, looks at what area has most nodes and goes there, dont. Go to the burning steppes, There is no real difference in amount of nodes but you dont spend half as long to get them :)

Comment by Tagholbinn

404: 1k Needles nodes not found.
edit:I made this comment when I saw that there was 404 mithril deposit nodes in the 1k needles. Just a fun fact.

Comment by Kurly

Just a quick note, while it says it at the top of the page, that this now only requires mining to be at 150, it is stated in some comments that you need higher than that.

You only need 150 mining to mine mithril now.

Comment by 856919

I tried to mine Mithril in Blasted Lands and found more Thorium veins. Checked EPL and so far have built up 3 stacks of ore already from less than an hours work.

Comment by 145191

Just wanted to post my findings - one circuit of Burning Steppes netted me the following:

96 x Mithril Ore
3 x Gold Ore
7 x Truesilver
4 x Black Vitriol

Not bad for less than 10min work!

Too add to the comments above - Dreadmaul rock on my first visit contained around 7 nodes inside the small cave alone and a further couple on the slopes outside. Definitely a good spot for Mithril in a nice confined space.

Summary - If you have a good flying mount +speed go to Burning Steppes.

If you are lower lvl - grab the water walking quests from 1k Noodles and bounce your way along the floor.

Comment by Kethrial

I found Thousand Needles to be a great place to go. I was looking for something simple and easy, and got it. I did a few quests to get the Speedbarge Diving Helm, and ran along the edges of the zone underwater - the helm gives you 160% running speed along the floor. I ran across very very few mobs - there was a small area with some remora sharks (which were easily avoided) and in the deeper scars there were some aggressive divers (easily killed if they were in the way of a mine, and too deep to accidentally run into otherwise).

I ran around the edge of the zone in about half an hour, and that was just the edges - I didn't zigzag through all the tiny island, which probably sheltered a few more deposits I missed. But in my half-hour run, this is what I got:

38x Iron Ore
120x Mithril Ore
18x Gold Ore
8x Truesilver Ore
(I usually run into a few Silver mines as well).

38x Heavy Stone
160x Solid Stone

1x Jade
1x Aquamarine
2x Star Ruby

2x Black Vitriol

EDIT: I now make an entire loop of Thousand Needles in less than half an hour. I somehow can use my ground mount along the bottom, and I achieve 220% running speed because I can mount underwater.

http://i53.tinypic.com/wuqzcx.jpg

Is this a glitch, or is this legit? Either way, currently it is my very fast, very efficient way of navigating Thousand Needles for my mining.
(ps. for the curious, UI is the addon SpartanUI combined with Healbot Continued)

Comment by Ayaname

I would highly recommend thousand needles for mithril, after doing the quest to get yourself the diving gear. Just questing the zone, i picked up ~170 ore and, about 20 gold, 30 iron, and 10 truesilver. It actually got to the point where I didn't use the boat they give you anymore, and simply ran along the bottom of the zone, because it appeared so often.

Specifically, I found it most going along the southern edge of the bluffs. It's all over the place around the base of them, and along the cliffs underwater.

Comment by jdufresne1

2 runs through searing gorge today:

265 mithril ore
292 solid stone
25 trusilver
26 gold
5 black vitriol
4 star ruby
1 citrine
1 aquamarine

started at morgan vigil, went in circle starting in west direction, then hit dreadmaul rock at end of circle.

Comment by bookworm13

For the best resource for determining the Cataclysm adjusted mining levels as well as the best zones to farm them in, browse through the Mineral Veins listing.

Teach an elf to fish...

Comment by 744066

Someone please link the exact questline needed to get the diving gear for 1k Needles, thank you!

Comment by Zensune

Felwood is a great place to find Mithril nodes.

Comment by 884771

Ok I decided to go to the badlands since it use to give lots of mithril back in the day.Well it still does I got 101 mithril ore ,122 solid stone and 6 truesilver ore on one pass around badlands a complete circle around the mtns not a bad haul for one trip around hope this helps peeps.

Comment by skuggi10

Thousand needles is the best place to mine mithriland other stuff like i found a lot of truesilver veins and 1 silver vein.

Comment by SkulledKing

Tons in thousand needles
Give a man a fish he eats for a day
Teach a man to fish he eats for a lifetime
Teach a murlock to mine mithril...
Mind = blown

Comment by Beiki

I have to suggest Badlands, whenever I found a node there were about 1-2 other nodes next to it. It went a lot faster than when I tried it in Thousand Needles. The veins are more sparse in Thousand Needles and you have to swim down to the bottom and then back up again if you don't have a means of traveling fast in water.

Comment by samishii23

Who in their right mind mines this stuff from 1k Needles......

Comment by Oonaga

On just a fly-over run. there seemed to be tonnes of Mithril in Burning Steppes. but, as i had'nt looked and found out Thorium does'nt spawn there anymore. i did'nt mine any so i don't know the respawn timers but, it was everywhere. the Ogre place in the Eastern section had at the very least seven nodes when i flew over, not sure if that's a rare occourence or not.

Comment by 963973

All I can say is that when I go there myself I find ALOT. But thats couse I am questing there. So if your lvling, I suggest you match your lvl to where you can find the ore you want. And if your out questing, I prefer Badlands and then Searing gorge.

Comment by 967247

I went and started at the boat at the bottom of Thousand Needles, and just went up, I got
300 Mithril Ore, 35 Gold Ore, 16 Truesilver Ore and 65 Iron Ore. I also leveld up my mining from 150 to 225 and would have gone higher but that is cap. I only refamred a node or two.

Comment by Borsalino

It never ceases to amaze me how I can mine one of these in about three seconds, whereas the excavator NPCs seem to whack at it all day with no success.

Comment by Phreddie

I think that to famr for mithril the best place is the burning steppes because u can go around once and grab lots of ore and before u get back to where u started most of the nodes have respawned so hence fourth loads of mithril.

For going around 1 time i got the following -

Mithril ore - 93
gold ore - 5
Citrne - 1
Star ruby - 2
Truesilver ore - 3

Comment by Arxroth

I was looking for harvest and rise skill for my upcoming engineer DK and I did find that in open world there is heavy competition on resource nodes so I did go exploring.

I was quite surprised to see that one of best places to gather is actually in Maraudon both prior area of dungeon and within the dungeon since there is little to no other players so no competition either.

Within dungeon if you can do you can also earn some extra gold by killing boss elites and sell their drops.

Comment by Fokaszar

Iron, truesilver, gold, thorium, iron, truesilver, gold, thorium, iron truesilver, gold, thorium..... it's never mithril no matter where I go

Comment by GoozaDecay

classic HC: Alterac mountains for both iron and mithril. rare spawns too

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Mithril Deposit

This object can be found in The Hinterlands (122), Tanaris (90), Azshara (83), Badlands (78), Desolace (78), Searing Gorge (69), Northern Stranglethorn (61), Feralas (56), Arathi Highlands (49), Burning Steppes (43), Western Plaguelands (35), Silithus (30), Blasted Lands (29), Dustwallow Marsh (29), Winterspring (28), Un'Goro Crater (23), Swamp of Sorrows (19), Stonetalon Mountains (16), Thousand Needles (12), Hillsbrad Foothills (10), Maraudon , Uldaman , and Alterac Valley .

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