Mining

Higher mining skill allows you to harvest more difficult minerals nodes around the world. If you cannot harvest a specific mineral, then increase your skill by mining easier to mine minerals in lower level areas.

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Your skill

What you gather

20 veins

Every vein, the skill it takes to mine and where it's found.

Apprentice Skill 1–75

Copper Vein
Skill 1
Also
Durotar, Westfall, Duskwood, Loch Modan, Wetlands, Redridge Mountains and 8 more
Incendicite Mineral Vein
Skill 65
Wetlands
Tin Vein
Skill 65
Also
Wetlands, Duskwood, Loch Modan, Redridge Mountains, Silverpine Forest, Hillsbrad Foothills and 3 more
Lesser Bloodstone Deposit
Skill 75
Arathi Highlands and The Hinterlands
Ooze Covered Silver Vein
Skill 75
Also
Feralas, Tanaris and Thousand Needles
Silver Vein
Skill 75
Also
Arathi Highlands, Alterac Mountains, Wetlands, Stranglethorn Vale, Loch Modan, Duskwood and 6 more

Journeyman Skill 76–150

Iron Deposit
Skill 125
Also
Arathi Highlands, Alterac Mountains, Stranglethorn Vale, Duskwood, Thousand Needles, Desolace and 2 more
Indurium Mineral Vein
Skill 150
Uldaman

Expert Skill 151–225

Gold Vein
Skill 155
Also
Arathi Highlands, Stranglethorn Vale, Alterac Mountains, Badlands, The Hinterlands, Duskwood and 3 more
Ooze Covered Gold Vein
Skill 155
Also
Feralas, Tanaris and Thousand Needles
Mithril Deposit
Skill 175
Also
Badlands, The Hinterlands, Alterac Mountains, Searing Gorge, Tanaris, Stranglethorn Vale and 5 more
Ooze Covered Mithril Deposit
Skill 175
Also
Feralas, Tanaris and Thousand Needles

Artisan Skill 226–300

Dark Iron Deposit
Skill 230
Also
Searing Gorge, Burning Steppes, Molten Core and Blackrock Depths
Ooze Covered Truesilver Deposit
Skill 230
Also
Silithus, Un'Goro Crater and Feralas
Truesilver Deposit
Skill 230
Also
The Hinterlands, Badlands, Alterac Mountains, Burning Steppes, Eastern Plaguelands, Un'Goro Crater and 6 more
Ooze Covered Thorium Vein
Skill 245
Also
Un'Goro Crater and Feralas
Small Thorium Vein
Skill 245
Also
Silithus, Un'Goro Crater, Burning Steppes, Western Plaguelands, Blasted Lands, Eastern Plaguelands and 5 more
Hakkari Thorium Vein
Skill 275
Also
Zul'Gurub
Ooze Covered Rich Thorium Vein
Skill 275
Also
Silithus
Rich Thorium Vein
Skill 275
Also
Winterspring, Eastern Plaguelands, Azshara, Burning Steppes, Un'Goro Crater, Western Plaguelands and 1 more