This WoW mining guide will aid you to speed up your levelling from 1-450.

If you need gold and oodles of it then be certain to have a look at my gold guide page for tons of tips and strategies.

WoW Gold Guide

Let’s commence with a fast description of what WoW mining is all about:

Mining is a gathering profession that goes best with engineering, blacksmithing or jewel-crafting as some of the mining material you gather is required for these professions recipes.

Assome other players in World Of Warcraft are possibly to impatient or could not be bothered with actually mining the materials themselves, this means you can gather up the resources or materials and sell them to other players via the auction house. This can be a nice way of making some gold.The materials or items you will collect  while mining in World Of Warcraft consists of the following: Metals, stones and gems. Rare gems are needed by blacksmiths and engineers and jewel-crafters.Some monsters also drop mining items when killed.

Do not ignore the time portion that it takes to gather materials in a gathering profession such as mining. It can be very time consuming to level up your mining skill so many players just choose to rather buy the required mining materials or mats from the auction house.You are going to have to get your hands a little dirty though if you are not flush with gold as the buying the mining materials option will seriously need oodles of gold. Remember to read my gold making tips on my WoW gold guide page mentioned at the beginning of the article.

To start mining you will need the following:

1.Go locate a trainer and get trained in mining
2.Go buy a pick from your local merchant
3.A pair of the least expensive gloves you can come across and then get them enchanted with a +5 mining skill enchant which should cost around 2 gold..
4.An engineer can construct you a mining helmet or you can purchase one from the auction house. This will give you +5 to your mining as well.
5.You need to locate a mineral vein to start gathering the ore.

A short note: The gloves and helmet are optional but I recommend that you acquire them as it betters your chance while mining.

A quick mention of the mining trainers locations:

Horde players go to Vengeance Landing, Howling Fjord and locate Jonathan Lewis.
If you are playing the Alliance then head on over to Valiance Keep in Borean Tundra and look for Fendrig Redbeard or you can search for Grumbol Stoutpick in Valgarde, Howling Fjord.

OR Both factions can head on over to Dalaran and find Jedidiah Handers in the Magus Commerce Exchange.

The mineral vein types and skills required to mine as well as the mineral vein locations and full 1-450 WoW mining guide is located on page 2 of my World Of Warcraft Mining guide website. Go to page 2 of my World Of Warcraft Guide here:

World Of Warcraft Mining Guide 1-450

Thank-you for reading my World Of Warcraft mining guide. My full WoW mining guide page 1 can be found here.

WoW Mining Guide