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Comment by Wildhorn

Silver Veins can spawn instead of any Tin veins. This is like a rare spawn among the veins.

EDIT: Iron can also spawn them. But it has more chance to spawn a Gold Vein than a Silver Vein.

Comment by 25427

Searching for Silver Veins is a pain in the ***.
Think i'v spent a total of 4 hours in two places, found 2 or 3 veins, total 7 Ores!!

Comment by catgrease

Was in Thousand Needles for over an hour and didn't even see 1.

Comment by 66800

i just cant find one any anywhere is there a spot where there actually is a guaranteed silver vein?

Comment by 56184

I ran all over Ashenvale and found 1, yes 1, silver ore... grrr

Comment by Trancos

I found like 8-10 silver veins in ashenvale, just follow the river from the bridge leading to the north. from 62,70 to 75,50.

Comment by Wakako

Read the green post people it the rare spawn of veins, But i too have trouble getting any

Comment by Farkeman

didnt find event copper .... find 1 at the end of the river wow that's *****

Comment by 90155

this is kinda confuseing because they can hardly be found and i need to get around 200 mineing so i can get alot of money

Comment by 2drunk2funk

found NONE in ashenvale and pretty much did a full circuit.
Plenty of copper and Iron, some tin.

Off to desolace to look now....

Need lots of silver for JC levelling :(

Comment by 104713

I had found multiple veins in Silver Pine forest.

Comment by 113534

I found this in ironbands compound

Comment by 130344

In ashenvale there is a cave at 60,63 there is alot of Silver Veins at the same place.

Comment by 132869

people this is a real moneymaker. on Vashj server in this moment 20 pieces are 60 g .

Comment by metaknight

if your a miner and need some money, doesnt even really matter what lvl you are, this would be a great way to earn some extra cash.

Comment by 37689

Just and FYI to miners:

Gold Ore and Silver Ore are a skill point for anyone who smelts ( up to a certain level) it helps get over that hump where the ore is green and a pain in the arse to get 1 more point, so you can then smelt something higher.

So in other words Gold Ore and Silver Ore are worth more on the AH for this reason.

Comment by trollsrlanky

I'm finding more Iron than i am silver :( i cant harvest iron yet.

Comment by 65122

49, 68 was almost right!!!! the rest on the east was all copper and tin which was still good just needed silver bad

Comment by 20021

Requires a skill of 75 in mining.

Comment by 225350

This helped me alot i have been looking for silver ein for ages and when i got told abouth this i had a look so thanks:D

Comment by stocz2

I have been searching for silver the last 3 days. I have seen this post, and a freind told me to go to thousand needles for the silver. I had found 2 silver veins and alot of iron and copper. There is no way that much silver there. I just kept going around and round.

Comment by Chudz

Best bet it to buy the ore off the Auction House and resell the bars, however on some servers it can cost alot of money.

Comment by lonig

This is also worth so much due to the fact that it is used in Jewelcrafting, Engineering AND Blacksmithing. Not to mention the obvious skill up issues surrounding mining.

This is by far a great money maker for your high30's low 40s. Just Run around Arathi and mine it. The map shows a lot of nodes, but as stated above thats just where its been seen before. There is generally very little in Arathi, but still more than anywhere else I've seen.

I always have luck around 68,75. that whole area around there usually has at least 1 or 2 nodes for the picking.

Comment by Devon007

i got there and found onlz Iron ore....

Comment by 266196

FYI... It appears that mining can now be leveled to at lest 125 by mining tin as well as silver.

Comment by 268200

look at the thousand needles map it appears to be a better farming spot cause its significantly smaller and is only 33 spots behind arathi

Comment by MasterLoco

Requires 75 skill to mine from.

Comment by 174988

wandered the half highlands and found nothing lol :D

Comment by 293350

go around the zone like follow the mountains if u use find minerals you will see tons of them there

Comment by 300970

I explored the hole highlands,i even got the achievement for it and didn't found one silver vein...

Comment by 261607

arathi highlands = epic phail in mining silver... i didn't find any veins at all, even after getting the explore achievement. XD

Comment by 308839

Yea ait´s a money maker, But if we have mining and we need to sale it, well are we got to sale silver ore or silver Bar?

Comment by 127120

Just did all of Arathi. Not one vein.

Comment by 144142

Arathi Highlands CAN be very good for mining nodes from tin-mithril.
There ARE high levels of silver ore at times, however there are lots of people who farm Arathi Highlands for ores.

On an good run, you can get:

20-30 iron
10-15 mithril
10-20 tin
and 1 or 2 node's of silver.

When competiton is high...much less.

Edit: Just did 2 laps round Arathi Highlands got:
27 iron ore
7 mithri ore
2 gold ore
2 silver ore
8 tin ore

This was with 1 Alliance farming ores as well...

Comment by 111622

I found it easier to just hop on your high level character and run into instances checking the Chests. The majority of treasure chests I've ever found have had Silver Ore inside them, even in the start zones. Venture into Uldaman or Deadmines and you've got a decent chance. As you're probably looking for Tin as well, it's a good place to look, and since you're checking here for advice you're probably at around level 115-125 as I'm at 123 and I refuse to pay 7g for 1 Ore on the AH.

Smelting Silver Ore goes green at around 121-123.

Comment by Rhelan

A few points to make on this:
1. Hooray. Explore Arathi Highlands.
2. Oh. No silver.

Following this up, after about.. 40 minutes of riding around Arathi, I've got 23 iron ore, 4 tin, and 4 silver.
uh..

Comment by Coldmeiser

I think I see far more iron, mithril and lesser bloodstone than silver; this information is inaccurate as of May 4, 2009, or it seems to be anyway.

Comment by undyingvisage

for those trying to level through tin and silver. thousand needles is a good place cause it actually follows the level path coming out of copper (which it has a little of) through tin and into silver and iron. pretty much TK has no specific set ore but it does have a larger range of tin and some silver spread throughout the zone. seein a really good ammount compared to arathi just running 20% around the entire zone.

Comment by Redsatyr

Can veins disappear?

Comment by 434474

I might agree with farming deadmines. that is if you have the spare time to farm the chests. its a low chance so i wont recommend it. just farm other nodes and youll notice a silver/gold soon.

Comment by 443978

I had a big need of silver ore right about... now. Thought of AH, but the prices there - much too steep for me. So I went on a searching spree in north of Redridge Mountains and the first two nodes I met there were silver nodes (7 silver in all). Good luck and good searching skills needed, and you can find it anywhere, really.

Comment by 333732

a rather funny thing about silver is that, dispite its apparent abundacy, veins are very rare. its often complete luck that you will run into one. however i have found more silver among the Boulderfist Ogre Mount and the cliffs of the Arathi Highlands than in any other place. i would highly recommend mining in Arathi if you plan on making you silver runs efficient and profitable.

Comment by Vikelet

Just did a whole lap finding 1 node and getting 2 , Complete waste of time im off to the ah to buys some

Comment by Spin6699

just smelt down your silver coins to make some bars! lol

Comment by xeonx

Lesser Bloodstone ore is a good alternative if using for leveling and not gold.

This can be found in the cave near 82,3 35,8 in arathi highlands.

Comment by Sully

If you are trying to level up your mining in this zone, but you can't mine Iron, make sure you mark the nodes so you know where they are, as you will probably pass a bunch like I did. If you use Gatherer, right click the node. It will say you are too low to mine the node but it will still remember.

Also don't forget to hit up the cave north-east of Hammerfall. It's full of Lesser Bloodstone nodes that got me to 125.

Comment by 578214

This site says silver veins are most common in The Hinterlands, but I ran all over the whole zone, and all I found was 1 vein of silver, about 5 veins of tin, and a few iron, which I can't mine yet anyway. Same goes for Hillsbrad Foothills. NO silver AT ALL.

Comment by 580159

Arathi Highlands are not soooooo god to farm silver veins: after 40 min of searching with the help of this map with tips, i didn't found any veins.

Comment by lundkris

ive seen a couple of silver ores in dm i just didnt have enough skill yet

Comment by 639212

None found in Arathi Highlands...

Comment by 633457

in Arathi highlands only has more gold and depots so miss leading :(

Comment by 636594

Arathi Highlands is a great place to find silver, but make sure that you make at least two rounds. On the first round, mine every vein that you come across, whether it is silver, tin, or iron. The reason for this is that, as stated previously, silver is a rare spawn of iron and tin. So after you get all the iron and tin when you come back for your second round some of it should have spawned as silver or gold veins. On my first run I got one silver vein with three silver ores. But, on my second round I saw THREE silver veins and one gold vein so after two rounds i had a total of 9 silver ores and four gold ores.

Comment by 637025

Jangolode Mine in westfall is good because there have something like 12-15 Tin Veins and the Silver veins generally spawn from Tin Veins.In westfall i go in the Jangolode Mine and In the Gold Coast Quarry i farmed 18 silver ores. There`s have 5 keep points:
Make 2 rounds;
In the first round mine all veins.
In the second round go everywhere you mined.
If you not find much silver you can repeat the rounds every15 mins.
REMEMBER:you have to wait some time between the first and the second round(20-25 minutes is enought to silver veins to spawn).

Comment by 684397

Silver veins are hard to find and any and all who mine in your group will leave you for dead just to mine it. I always rn through Redride, Hillsbrad, Arathi and sometimes Loch Modan for Silver.

Comment by 231299

Northern Stranglethorn all the way good amount of tin means more chance for silver and not to mention herbing if you have both this is an awesome zone just node to node to node herbing and mining

Comment by 746263

great place to farm tin ore and sum silver ore is in the cave called The Stockpile in northern stranglethorn good luck :)

coor are 45,7

Comment by 713707

Are these locations pre or post Cataclysm? because from what i can find all mining locations have changed ALOT except for copper ore

Comment by 713707

side note anybody looking for a great place to mine mithril should check out the now flooded Thousand Needles

Comment by jamvaru

found silver and the moss agate i was looking for in hillsbrad

Comment by 794045

I have 115 mining and the only thing that nets me any skill points for it is smelting silver(Even then, it's yellow) I've only ever found 1 vein with 3 pieces of ore in it :( the AH prices are far too steep for me(level 35 with 40 gold). getting to 125 to mine iron will be tough T_T

Comment by 801799

Best place to find and farm this is definitely northern stranglethorn in my opinion (in case someone cares- which no.one does). With some tactical moving you can get silver at lvl 7-10. i got 14 silver at lvl 12.

Comment by 814923

where is the best place to mine silver?

Comment by pwnwolf117

i got 33 silver in about an hour at hillsbrad, but for whatever reason after that 33 i didnt see a single on (havent been there since that run)

Comment by 814843

Best place has to be N. Stranglethorn. There are 2 caves that are usualy filled with them and I would walk out with 10-15 ores everytime. I just run between the 2 caves and pick up any I find in between. In about 10 minutes I got 1 1/2 stacks.

EDIT: Also like to note I got the same amount of tin as well. So make sure you grab the tin veins as well if you want silver to spawn faster.

Comment by 828073

Which section of Northern Stanglethorn has the highest silver spawn chances?

Comment by Pypode

So far, I've been to Stranglethorn, Wetlands, Arathi and Barrons and Hillsbrad. So far, only ONE silver node. I have tons and tons of tin and iron.

Comment by Pypode

So far, in Southern Barrens, it's all copper, tin and iron. No silver.

Comment by 854837

Seriously you all need to update you map up date on here to find Silver veins. You all have that the high place to find silver veins in the Northern Stranglethorn. I am on my DK now, going to these place and alls I am finding are tin veins NOT silver veins. so please get this update website. Thank You

Comment by 882036

I so totally hate this with every inch of my heart imagine not having only mining to upgrade but ALSO Jewelcrafting... and that only with silver its just so :@
Any way i got 3 nodes in desolace 0 in feralas despite i searched a LOT and 1 in ashenvale i think and that was so pure luck...
happy (yea sure... :P) silver hunting and good luck!

Comment by doperanks

I'm surprised nobody mentioned Feralas... The upper part (near the twin mountains) is a great valley to circle. Loads of iron, and occasionaly a silver vein. This would be my best bet, because it's also easy to run...

Comment by Imthree

Just found 2 Silver Ores in Ardo Dirtpaw's cave and another on the way back to Lakeshire.

Comment by 1020056

it doesnt matter really i got past silver ore just by smelting copper and tin for bronze then i did that for awhile and went too iron im finding alot of tin about 23 veins in N. stranglethorn ive gotten about five silver veins and 14 silver ore what im saying is that if you have a flying mount you can go about anywhere and find silver just about anywhere that tin is you see tin o yippee silver has got too be here somewhere its like hide and seek really

Comment by SansSanity

Requires mining skill of 50 after 5.0.4

Comment by rodier

5.0.5 and silver is really rare in Northern STV :(

Comment by TOM4E

man there where the points are there's tin veins
there's no any silver vein

Comment by derpomatic

If you're just wanting to level up mining past 75-80ish, I recommend buying Silver Ore from the Auction House, smelting your way to 100 and then reselling the Silver Bar for the same price or better. There's almost always a market for both and this amounts to free leveling ;)

Comment by Brunhill

Frankly, I only found 17 total silver ores (four veins) in Feralas and only one gold vein, but lots of iron veins for those who are mining for iron. I mined the entire area on my dk who could fly. Recommended for iron ore only.

Comment by Nightwitch

I found quite a few in the Ruins of Alterac, about 3 veins in fifteen minutes.

Comment by sonamata

Was competing with another farmer, but found 1 silver vein in Feralas at 48.29, 39.66. Also found three gold at 48.11, 27.53; 37.27, 20.14; and 48.46, 43.18.

Comment by 610726

There's no "best place" for strictly silver.

You have to mine the tin and iron nodes to make the silver nodes spawn.

So go mine tin and iron, the silver will show up eventually. In popular places like Hillsbrad though, you might not see it because it spawned somewhere behind you, and one of the other miners already got it. Or you might be that guy seeing the silver pop up ahead of you.

Comment by 1421391

I really wish more people would leave comments! It would help us farmers out. At this point in wow, I am not even sure if it is worth farming period these days. I feel since so many things in wow has changed. The way the nods would spawn, the areas you would get the ore from. Before you knew the higher the lvl the area the high lvl of ore you are gonna get. Now it's like thrown up in the air. You might farm in an area where you get mostly a particular vain, but they will throw in some random low veins as well.

I have been trying to find silver in several places. I am finding more gold veins then silver. I have farmed the Arathi Highlands, Feralas as well as a few other places that were recommended. I have over 200 stacks of iron, 4 gold, and 0 silver... :) I thought to go a lvl higher and go farm in areas that would maybe have a higher drop rate. Still no silver, but I have a lot of Mirthal ore. :P

If you could please leave a up to date comment below to help me out. I would definitely appreciate that.

Comment by Wildetyme

I found one silver vein in Silverpine Forest, and a few flying through Hillsbrad and Ruins of Alterac

Hope this helps!

Comment by deiXide

Had to farm these when I dropped Gnomish engineering for Goblin. Forgot how much of a rarity Silver is on my late-stage server. In any case, my general philosophy on herbing/mining is as follows:

1) Go to wowhead and find the node. In this case, Silver Vein (i.e. this page you're looking at).
2) Find the map at the top with the node locations and note the top 3 zones. For Silver it appears that the highest concentrations are in Feralas, Northern Stranglethorn and Hillsbrad Foothills.
3) If you don't particularly like being in any of those zones, look through each map and find the smallest zone with the biggest clump of said resource. My pick for silver is Hillsbrad; more specifically in the loop around the Ruins of Alterac.
4) Click a node on the wowhead map and click "Tomtom command" under the "Copy All" section.
5) Install Tomtom and something like Copypasta2 that allows you to paste a mass of coordinates easily.
6) Paste in the locations. I configure Tomtom to not remove each waypoint when I fly over it.
7) Just fly around the largest concentration on your map and mine everything. In this case, I found 10 silver nodes in about 20 minutes of mining Tin. The more people mining the better.

Caves tend to have more of the rare mining nodes inside them, but you also can't fly inside... so YMMV in terms of time per node. Good luck!

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Silver Vein

This object can be found in Feralas (351), Northern Stranglethorn (308), Hillsbrad Foothills (287), Stonetalon Mountains (194), Desolace (189), Arathi Highlands (178), The Cape of Stranglethorn (155), Southern Barrens (134), Duskwood (114), Wetlands (107), Redridge Mountains (101), Thousand Needles (69), Loch Modan (63), The Hinterlands (62), Bloodmyst Isle (30), Silverpine Forest (29), Dustwallow Marsh (26), Darkshore (23), Ghostlands (20), Westfall (12), Badlands (17), Northern Barrens (11), The Deadmines (9), Azshara (9), Stranglethorn Vale (7), Theramore's Fall (H) (6), Alterac Mountains, The Deadmines (2), Twilight Highlands (3), Blackfathom Deeps , Razorfen Kraul , Tanaris (2), Uldaman , and Wailing Caverns .

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