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Comment by 7522

Another decent place to farm Rich Thorium Veins is Un'Goro. The insectoid nests underground host a decent amount of ooze-covered veins (still the same thing), and fire plume ridge (area with fire elementals) has a decent number of veins as well. Not to mention that the fire elementals are also good to farm for essences and a possible rare spawn!

Comment by 8472_

Any class, if you're careful, can mine the thorium nodes in southern winterspring. There are 2 nodes down there at any given time, with a 5 minute respawn in a different section after you mine one. Simply wait until the tunnels are clear, then go through, mount up, and run along the edges to deaggro.
It is, however, easiest for a rogue; you can mine them much more efficiently. I can usually get about 10-15 nodes an hour, plus some small thorium. If there is competition, a circular route between the northern nodes up to gadgetzan is also productive, although only a stealth class can safely reach the back of mazthoril.

Comment by softbeast

Actually you can separate into 6 area and the Rich Thorium Vein will respawn every 15 mins in each area, one area one piece. The area are The fungal vein, The infactis scar, Pestilent scar, The noxious glade, Northdale and Zul'Marshar. Just follow the this route and you can get your Rich Thorium Vein continousely. Just forget about Scarlet Basilica,'cause it's too dangerous for you.

Comment by Salus

The screen shot for the Rich Thorium Vein is incorrect. Rich Thorium Veins are larger and are green. They have large crystals growing out from them. I have uploaded an updated picture.

Comment by Zone

What level of mining do you require to mine these?
I have 250 skill and can mine small thorium veins but not these

Comment by cyborg99

I can usually get 7-9 Rich Veins in one circle of Winterspring, along with a few Small ones that I see on the way from node to node.
I start in Everlook, then I...
1) Head to Ruins of Kel'Theril and get the Rich Vein there(there's always one there, unless it's been mined recently).
2) I head to Mazthoril and pick up the one Rich and one Small in the cave and I port out using the rune at the end.
3) Then I head to Frostwhisper Gorge and get the one Rich Vein there.
4) I then head to Darkwhisper Gorge and get the 2 or 3(sometimes I get 2, sometimes 3) veins there and sometimes a Small vein. Just head clockwise through each little valley, making a detour for the very southern one.
5) I head up towards Owl Wing Thicket and get the Rich Vein there, sometimes it's in a cave, so pay attention to the map because it'll be slightly harder to see because of the terrain on the map + darker color.
6) Up to Winterfall Village and get the Rich Vein there.
7) Northwest up to Frostsaber Rock and grab the Vein there.

Also, when I'm able to do the https://www.wowhead.com/cata/quest=5201 quest, I'll do that quest while I'm at Winterfall and turn it in while I'm at Frostsaber.
Good luck with your Thorium mining!

Comment by jadrianz

Ever since the BC Exp. the nodes for all ores have had expanded spawn times. It also appears that the spawn locations are cyclical in an area. Example: Noxious Glade there are 5 nodes in the glade itself, b ut only 1 will be active at any time, whereas you could normally ride by 3 nodes with ore before BC was released.

Comment by 33892

Anyone know the skill required to mine this vein?

Comment by 60649

I've recently noticed that rich thorium veins can give upwards of 5 taps compared to the max of 4 that they used to give pre-TBC. I've also noticed small thorium veins giving 2-3 taps instead of the 1-2 they used to. Overall this is good news for us smiths/engineers/JC's. Many of us will be forced to mine a good chunk of the thorium required to hit 300 skill due to the shortage of thorium from everyone being in outland where thorium is not present.

Comment by Mister6002

I just found a Small Thorium Vein at 63.25 and 49,20 which aren't on the map above.
The guide of Cyborg99 is very very good!Everybody should use it!!!!

Note : The map dots are the locations where people have mined veins which means that veins at new locations are getting updated soon.

Co-ords of the locations Cyborg99 posted :
Ruins of Kel'theril 56.44 and around.
Mazthoril(cave entrance) 56.50.
Frostwhisper Gorge (entrance) 58.63.
Darkwhisper Gorge(entrance) 59.74(note that mount hyjal entrance is there too!).
Owl Wing Thicket(entrance)63.59.
Winterfall Village(cave entrance)67.42.
Frostsaber Rock 49.10 and around.
Then juist follow the mountain edge to the west until you reach the Ruins of Kel'Theril again.

Note : Winterspring also have Truesilver Veins in case anyone wonders.
Very Important Note : Veins could have been mined recently so luck would be usefull.

Hope this will help you guys!

Comment by 120639

If you are in Winterspring leveling mining, it is well worth is to cruise through Darkwhisper. I kept skipping it, but the first time i rode through i found 4 Rich Thoriums and at least 3 the second time. If you skip it you are a fool.

Comment by Krynoraxian

An interesting note: Due to the increased drop rate of arcane crystals in all thorium veins. For a very short time(275-280) Arcanite Keys can be a good substitute for Imperial Plate bracers for getting some skill up.

Transmute Arcanite is:
Thorium Bar x1
Arcane Crystal x1

Arcanite Key x2 is:
Arcanite Bar x1
Dense Grinding Stone x1 (4 Dense Stone)

This compared to...

Imperial Plate bracers:
Thorium Bar x12

It should be noted Arcanite keys are of yellow difficulty when you train them at 275, but for those 5 blacksmithing levels its well worth the risk over the orange skill Imperial Plate bracers to save yourself some money/time.

Comment by 112723

Just in case you didnt know... Thorium is a real metal...

Atomic Number: 90
Atomic Radius: 179.8 pm
Atomic Symbol: Th
Atomic Weight: 232.0381
Melting Point: 1750 ?C
Boiling Point: 4788 ?C
Electron Configuration: 7s26d2
Oxidation States: 4

When pure, thorium is a silvery-white metal which is air-stable and retains its luster for several months. When contaminated with the oxide, thorium slowly tarnishes in air, becoming gray and finally black. The physical properties of thorium are greatly influenced by the degree of contamination with the oxide. The purest specimens often contain several tenths of a percent of the oxide. High-purity thorium has been made. Pure thorium is soft, very ductile, and can be cold-rolled, swaged, and drawn. Thorium is dimorphic, changing at 1400?C from a cubic to a body-centered cubic structure. Thorium oxide has a melting point of 3300?C, which is the highest of all oxides. Only a few elements, such as tungsten, and a few compounds, such as tantalum carbide, have higher melting points. Thorium is slowly attacked by water, but does not dissolve readily in most common acids, except hydrochloric. Powdered thorium metal is often pyrophoric and should be handled carefully. When heated in air, thorium turnings ignite and burn brilliantly with a white light.

Twenty five isotopes of thorium are known with atomic masses ranging from 212 to 236. All are unstable. 232Th occurs naturally and has a half-life of 1.4 x 1010 years. It is an alpha emitter. 232Th goes through six alpha and four beta decay steps before becoming the stable isotope 208Pb. 232Th is sufficiently radioactive to expose a photographic plate in a few hours. Thorium disintegrates with the production of "thoron" (220Rn [a form of Radon gas, notice the green clouds around ore nodes), which is an alpha emitter and presents a radiation hazard. Good ventilation of areas where thorium is stored or handled is therefore essential.

yada yada yada so on and so forth... for more info check out http://periodic.lanl.gov/elements/90.html
I think its cool when they put a bit of truth into a fictional world :)

Comment by scarvic

These are SSS-MOKIN'!

Comment by 118739

So i was in darkwhisper gorge farming some thorium on my Death Knight... i hit 300 mining and gained toughness rank 4, which lost me 600 hp ><

Comment by 131361

Here's a map of the path i take in EPL when i farm rich thorium https://www.wowhead.com/cata/maps=139:735516730500720477715469727450726421756403779403797401819384832368831351819330804302794293775302761328750353747380738400715411702431687407678396673368678320695299698275685256674225660203651203636190620174639153660143670124655102639114625130611159603168597188595209580256591242562266544279540314550328563366571394581417584440584464581491579518579545567572556592541607529598506607496631480638468644453654444654428633405633382629344623325609313574317543343524386487388467370448344450313467294510370499297532296559301590301613309646310685321708340720361720374718396716446720417714481702462710509685546667575669601675623667648646678644691625705598716582726563731547 (btw this is pritty much just what softbeast posted -the elite place)

Comment by 241184

any one know the respawn time for RTVs?

specifically the ones in Un'Goro?

Comment by 362801

As I couldn't find it among the posted comments:
Rich Thorium requires 275 mining.
Useful information for those planning ahead. :)

Comment by Thaddeus

I think the best place to farm this is in Winterspring, because it's usually less farmed. Eastern Plaguelands is good also, but there are a lot of cliffs there and a lot of mobs near the vein. Some places in Winterspring is also difficult to access to such as Darkwhisper Gorge (a lot of elite mobs there that can still give trouble to level 70's). Still, in my opinion, the best place to farm thorium is in Winterspring. For a quick thorium farming, from Everlook just go east to Timbermaw Village. There are 3-4 nodes there with a few Timbermaw Shaman and Timbermaw Ursa. After that, go west and go around the frozen lake, there should be a lot of Rich Thorium Vein and a small amount of Small Thorium Vein. While in Timbermaw village, you can also do this quest https://www.wowhead.com/cata/quest=8464.

Comment by 385441

i would like to add that now that WOTLK is out, if you dont wanna mess around with veins not being there of W/E there is a place where there is always about 3 Rich Thorium veins, at the Back exit of Dire mole (east) behind the boss named Alzzin the wildshaper.

Comment by 296580

I haven't visited Darkwhisper Gorge since I leveled mining on a different character ~patch 3.0.1 and noticed that I no longer have been dismounted when transversing through the cavern passways. I stopped midway inside of one of these passages and although the minimap showed I was indoor and in the center I was not dismounted. I was mounted on the epic DK mount, Acherus Deathcharger.
(reposted from Winterspring comment)

Comment by shockfromdestro

i reccommend going to burning steppes, as not only can u farm the thorium and whatnot for skill-ups, but i myself have found 2-3 stacks of truesilver there within just a few hours of farming. also u can get the dark iron ore, (which i have found alot of) for the thorium brotherhood. basically u can make alot of gold, and get some rep at the same time

Comment by 65500

As of July 3rd, 2009, the Hyjal teleport still works.

Run through the Mazthoril Cave to the deepest point and you'll be teleported to Darkwhisper.

Comment by Shad0wS0ul

if u r thinking winterspring is a good place to farm em, think again! its just a waste of time i didnt even got a bad farming while i first farmed em for mining lvling... go to ungoro silithus wherever u can go but not to winterspring

Comment by 247441

Also at 49,20 in Wintersprings.

Comment by 434474

You can take on these babies in either Winterspring or Eastern Plaguelands. If you have no competition there or if the time is late then go for the best of it.

Most of the Thorium is found in the southern side and the Sapphire dragon cave with some elites. if you don't want trouble visit the eastern plaguelands but you will have a shorter chance of finding them. though if your a DK or a higher level and willing to fight for it best find the most of them in Darkwhisper Gorge and the Sapphire dragon cave

Comment by kayerose61357

I have discovered a new Place for thorium in Winter spring, its right above the spot with 3 caves if You're going south . maybe 5 yards away, there's also one available on the rocks at the entrance of the three caves . :D hope that helps.

Comment by 333732

dont be fooled by the large numbers of pins on the map of the Eastern Plaguelands and Winterspring:

Azshara is the best place for rich thorium veins. very little competition, not many mobs surrounding the veins, and there are very few of other mineral veins so the game engine will pop them up more often

Comment by whocarez

I made a map that shows pretty much my exact route to use at 80, if your just trying to make money or level a profession, it focuses on rich thorium, but hits everything that's along the way.

https://www.wowhead.com/cata/maps=139:739520720502703497693469712452725427739415760407775409792401799384803351794328777320759337748355740382724400707419690434664450652434656421664411678357636337610324626306642306655306668306680312685293689267681231668215648209633211617229603246597233606217613205625176634163646151658153668149673128663122651120642130632137612159604168593182580196571203551213536227518242505248487258481275474300472326471347471366477388490401498407507415515423540434528436533460520479505500490518483533481545490551501545511551522557520572515603500625484629467648457664439667423669405679389677376683367671356664332675341664327648329634329605619316625335646341659351668355672386673374672407562213531238477289625223619194619145677147326592321576322559322543334532343524353516363510366495371479358464341466330477314491310514305530299543288551279557268572265596264609265623265640268656266673268687278699288710300722312735319751326763330776343780360776375774389765405753420745428745436747449747458745477747470747487747500757511763525770538772554780564782577784589786603778616766632768647780661782676778683757695755707755721753740770755782770786784776801765810759813741805732797718778706761700744716731726720730702733753710769706786716733759711730690724681712670697658689648673643656641638654634669636682633696625691611683594686570695557705551712533720526729510711504700483700462677450685446699429717411

Comment by james59519

It's a better source than the small vein

Comment by 223389

Wow! I feel really lucky, as I just got a great cache from on of these nodes.

Star Ruby
Azerothian Diamond
Arcane Crystal
Thorium Ore x4
Dense Stone x5

I'm not sure if this is the correct way to find the probability but I'll try:

4.0% x 1.1% x 1.0% = 0.00044%

Then soon after looting it, another node spawned right in its place but just had normal ore/stone.

Comment by 280323

Apparently, literally dozens of spawn points seem to have been added for these in Un'goro Crater. This may be only a (severe) glitch, but spawn amount and rate are over the top. :O

There are now Small and Rich Thorium Vein spawns all around the edge of Un'goro. I have just finished 2 1/2 round trips (me being the only one there between 3:15 and 4:45 a.m. and came out with:
235x Thorium Ore
325x Dense Stone
13x Arcane Crystal
2x Large Opal
3x Star Ruby
1x Blue Sapphire
1x Azerothian Diamond

Just. Bloody. Amazing.

PS: There were even more veins there but I couldn't get at those because of high-level Elite Stegodons (I'm only lvl 49)

Comment by orneman

i just took one time around in un'goro and i got 85 thorium ores, 3 arcane crystals, 2 star rubys and 3 azerothian crystals. damn that was much. got about 20 rich thorium veins and 3 small. TOO much for me =D

Comment by 553011

Two quick runs in Un'Goro Crater, just following the mountainside, got me the following:

Ore:

Thorium Ore: 128
Truesilver Ore: 2

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Other:

Star Ruby: 2
Arcane Crystal: 2
Large Opal: 2
Huge Emerald: 5
Azerothian Diamond: 1
Dense Stone: 165

I didn't enter the cave at Lakkari Tar pits, (close to Marshal's Refuge) as two 80's was fighting for two Truesilvers and a Mithril in there.

Picking this road also got me to 300 Mining, as well as 300 Engineering.

TL;DR
Un'Goro Crater is a very sucessfull place to farm Thorium. At least on my server.
I suggest you to check Un'Goro Crater out whenever available, when searching for Thorium.

Note that I ignored every Mithril available, (there were quite a few, fyi) as it goes for a very low price on my server and I already had plenty of it.

edit:
I created a map of the route I took. I basically ran by the edge of the mountainside and entered the few areas accessable between the mountains when I saw them.

You can also (optionally) pick those places that I pinned out on a map. I didn't go there myself, as it would get me away from my route. Who knows, it might held a few veins for you.

Good luck!

Comment by 577868

Un'Goro is certainly the best place to farm Thorium. Specially if you are a DK with a Blood/Unholy Farm spec or a Paladin with Crusader Aura. The spawn rate for Thorium ore here is INSANE I've even had a couple of respawns at the same point a couple of seconds after I've mined some ore :O

Basically just as the map suggests run around Un'goro in a circle
After around 1 hour of Farming I had 402 Thoruim on me and a couple of Odd Gems
Great to Prospect the Ore and Level your JC or just level you BS with

This Area beats EP and WS hands down!

Comment by Sithari

Latest changes to mine go as follows:

Rich Thorium Vein requires 255 mining (old one: 275)
Truesilver Deposit requires 205 mining (old one: 235)

Also I agree with Un'Goro Crater, seems like the area was upgraded in later patches.
Think of it now as its counterpart Sholazar Basin: The most effective areas to mine Thorium/Saronite.

Comment by Souliepiekin

5x thorium ore
6x dense stone
1x star ruby
1x large opal
1x azerothian diamond
1x arcane crystal

from one node...I think my luck has run out for the day...time to go cancel the raid.

Comment by 614804

The best place to farm this, is un'goro, running mounted near to the mountains. I got 100 per every 20 min. if u're alone farming, it's a quite nice place.

Comment by H3xxu5

Highly recommended to use this tool.

Map Wow

You can see that in Un'Goro Crater there is some Truesilver veins

Comment by 629448

OMFG got 90 ores, 7 arcane crystals, 2 huge emeralds and 2 star rubys and alot stones, from one round in Un´goro crater :o

Comment by 341073

Eh, not a fan of EPL and Winterspring. From just taking the circle around the whole cliff edge of Un'goro, ya get a nice amount I'd say. You don't have to fight much (least I didn't) and it doesn't take very long to do. This was on a 54 warrior btw. I ran the circle went to smelt it in gadgetzan then flew back and ran it again.

First round trip (without going to anything special like the monkey cave, bug cave, and the volcano in the middle)
79 thorium ore and about 112 dense stone

Second trip: (actually visiting the above mentioned areas)
87 thorium ore and 108 dense stone

Gems in total: (not much to speak of)
1 Large Opal
2 Azerothian Diamonds
6 Arcane Crystals

Comment by recklessness

My favorite place to farm rich thorium veins has to be Dire Maul East. After you finish the last boss, there will be 2-3 rich thorium veins every time in the tunnel that leads back outside. It is my favorite because you get to kill 3 bosses that drop a total of 4 blues, 2-3 veins, and a chance to grab the rare spawn in the arena outside while farming it. One run through takes me about 10 minutes on my 80 warrior. If you have aspect or sprint, the farming would be much faster.

Comment by Dimonslayer

Un'goro Crater is just purely amazing for farming Thorium, I find a node every 15 seconds or so and there were about 4 other people there farming Thorium too, respawn times are great, once i saw a gold node, mined it, then about 10 yards away there was a rich Thorium vein, mined that, then another thorium vein spawned in place of that gold node, not sure if this is a glitch or not but im not complaining.

Back to farming...

Comment by 667255

Un'Goro Crater is really good for this. Just make a loop around the outside ring. I could easily gather 80-90 ore a loop which only took about 15 minutes.

Comment by 279832

I was able to get 280 Throium ore, 9 Arcane Crystals, 4 Large Opals, 2 Blue Sapphires, 4 Huge Emeralds, 1 Star Ruby, 2 Azerothian Diamonds, 1 Black Vitriol, 340 Dense Stones in just over an hour of moving clockwise around the edge of Un'Goro. Fairly easy at Level 60 and above.

Comment by noles

At level 50, both rich and small thorium veins are giving me 675 (not rested) experience for mining them. It is not that great, but its about twice what I'd be getting for killing mobs my level, and I am making tons of gold at the same time.

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At level 51 these give me 700 experience and the small veins continue to give 675.

Comment by liamhef2009

Go to Un'Goro Crater and keep walking around the perimeter and youl find this vein

Comment by pheonix26682

Slight problem as some of the nodes are just impossible to get without flying they are either to high up the edge or are on area that was accessible before the 4.0.3a patch

Comment by 718920

Silithus is full of Small Thorium Veins and Rich Thorium Veins and even some Truesilver Veins. I find Silithus a realy good place to farm Thorium Ore, just run around the outher edge of Silithus. I dont think it's worth going down in every cave there, because: If you're low lvl and farming theese (like me) you need to fight mobs alot more and you can't mount up in there. I would rather farm Thorium in Silithus Rather than in Un'Goro, that's because in Un'Goro you got alot of veins inacessable, but not in Silithus.

Comment by BasicPhreak

I am currently leveling the Mining (and BS) on my DK, and with the ports gone in Shatt and Dal, I set my hearth to Dal (My DK is lvl 70 atm). How ever I find the plauglands to be the easiest due to deathgate and hearthing for training.

Comment by Fizzles

Winterspring is, IMO, the best zone for Thorium.
Using the Routes/GatherMate2/GatherMate2_Data Addons, I made a path around Winterspring going through most/all of the Small Thorium, Rich Thorium and Truesilver Veins.
I opted to avoid any caves the path might take me through. Here is the path I eventually used.

After about 45 minutes, I had:

314 Dense Stone
231 Thorium Ore
9 Truesilver Ore
8 Arcane Crystal
3 Black Vitriol
1 Azerothian Diamond
1 Blue Sapphire
1 Huge Opal
1 Star Ruby

Here is a picture of my bags once done, if you need proof.

Comment by Sorvtyl

100 ores in 10 minutes in Silithus!, found a node about every 3-10 seconds with 300% flight speed (pally aura).

Comment by lecrisp

Requires 255 now. So don't do like me, buy some ore to bring mining to 275 so you'd be able to get all veins while farming the rest.

Comment by 718763

just tryed ungoro crater, i have to say its a really good place for farming thoriums, there are rich and small deposits and they are mostly found in the edges of the map, just do a round and u can get few stacks...

Comment by 806894

Just spent a couple hours in Un'goro mining for Thorium here as I was questing here in the mid-50s and needed it anyway. Got 400 ore and assorted gems without too much trouble.

Comment by BIackDahlia

In about 45 minutes my Tauren Hunter-Gatherer got:

164 Dense Stone
143 Thorium Ore
120 Icecap
96 Mountain Silversage
8 Arcane Crystal
2 Large Opal
1 Sleeveless T-Shirt

P.S. Try getting the one at 48 60.

Comment by Ehtbit

Maybe it's been said before, but umm... why is there no thorium at Thorium Point Searing Gorge ?

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 882965

Ok concerning Silithus, I cruised around the edges (hills) only, after 20 mins I got :

101 Thorium ore
143 Dense Stone

At Ungoro Crater, cruising the same way around the edges, after 15 mins I got :

79 Thorium ore
105 Dense stone

I would say those places are alright but not 'Great'.

I will soon be visiting Winterspring to check the veins there.

Good luck guys.

Comment by 882965

As for Winterspring, again cruising around the land ( over the hills only), after 20 mins, got :

147 Thorium ore
168 Dense stone

Nothing special but definitely better.
It is also probably the best place for arcane crystals, got 6 out of this run.

All the mentioned cruises were done while mounting a 150% speed flying bird.

Btw: 2 reasons why I only cruise around the land(over hills) only, 1 is because you can mine freely without worrying about mobs or anything like that and second is because after you have taken a full cruise around the land, you can easily get the Explore:'Name of Land' achievement, eventually getting the Explorer Title if you want it.

Good luck lads.

Comment by 920857

im trying to level my blacksmithing and mining and im not sure where is the best place to farm them? any help anyone could offer would be great thanks.

Comment by Oonaga

I'de have to say. when ever i've had to farm Thorium. Un'Goro is the place i've gone every time. if you do a full circle around the outside, it should net you a fair bit. and by the time you reach the end, the ones where you started should have respawned. remember to mine small thorium nodes too! theres a chance a Rich one will respawn in it's place.

Edit: After four loops around the outside of ungoro i ended up with

207 Thorium Ore
238 Dense Stone
7 Truesilver Ore
Random green gems from fains, at least 1/3-1/4 chance of a gem dropping.

Each loop took maybe 2-3mins in Epic flight form.

Comment by Inumaru

I'm not sure if anyone else is having farming issues in Silithus. I'm currently mining there, and while the nodes are common and harvesting Thorium was easy, it seems that once I hit 90 Thorium ore units in my bag I am no longer able to receive Thorium from the nodes.

So far I've been stuck at 90, after mining approximately 4 additional Rich Thorium Veins and 2 small veins. All I appear to be able to get from them now is Dense Stone.

However, after re-logging, it seems I am once again able to collect Thorium again. Has this bug ever happened to anyone else?

Comment by 644392

To farm I suggest going to Swamps of Sorrow I had a lot of luck around there.
Especially in Stagalbog Cave by the bottom, I went in there and came out with 2 stacks of thorium 2 1/2 stacks of dense stone and 2 arcane crystals

Comment by Thottbot

requires mining 275

Comment by Thottbot

these have a respawn of about 5 minites (or at least they do on my server in un goro.

Comment by Thottbot

whats the difference between rich thorium veins and small thorium veins ?

Comment by Thottbot

Okay well, The other day i was running around looking for Rich Thorium veins and a friend of mine said i should try the Hives in Silithus. So i bumbed off there, and as you might you know, Blizzard nerfed the mobs, they're non elites now. So i could easy stealth around them and grab all the thorium there. Just walk into all of the caves there and when you're done at one hive, continue to another hive. That way you get the Thorium veins to respawn as you get back to the first hive (Theres 3 hives in all Hive'ashi, Hive'regal and Hive'zora.

Happy grinding,

Kind regards
Deyaka 70 Druid
Earthen ring

Comment by Thottbot

The best location for rich thorium vein is Darkwhisper gorge (Winterspring). There are a lot of rich thorium veins. The only thing is that there are elite mobs, but that is no problem for rogue. However farm there those veins can anyone. If u carefully walk around it will be no problem. I did it with my hunter didnt even have to use feign death. If u aggro any mob u can still run away.

Comment by Thottbot

It seems that tigers get stuck in these veins all the time.

Thottbot tells me there is tiger meat to be found in them...

Comment by Thottbot

DARKWHISPER GORGE IS GREAT as long as u dont aggro the elites

Comment by Thottbot

Did they nerf DWG or what? been there at 5:00 am server time , no competition at all, ran the entire place like 3 times and bumped into just ONE vein... bad luck? nerfed? i don't know... i'm off to burning steppes.

Comment by Thottbot

Ive noticed that one of the most relyable spots to get ahold of a rich vein in un goro is on the mt. in the center of the map. There are about 4-5 key spots yielding one vein every 5 mins or so. serveral of these areas are accessable w/o any confrontations with the local elementals that inhabit it.

Comment by Thottbot

By far Silithis is the best place... I've gotten around 60 ores in 1 full circuit (Including the hives)... Very good, I'd suggest this place if your a dr00d or rogue (Stealth) and a higher level...

Comment by Thottbot

I also had poor luck with Darkwhisper Gorge after patch 2.4. Finding only three veins in over two hours of circling the entire place at around 3am server time.

I have yet to try Un Goro or Silithus, but have heard others in-game say they are good places to check.

I personally don't mind sticking with Burning Steppes and/or Searing Gorge as there are both small and rich veins there, plus loads of mithril which sells great in the AH even if it does not level your mining.

Comment by Thottbot

UnGoro yields a decent amount of Thorium. I also like to pick off power crystals while there - for use in some of the weaponsmith items. Not to mention that the mobs there are lower level and harder to aggro.

Comment by Thottbot

I found a LOT of rich/small thorium veins in Eastern Plaguelands so try there.(especially in those little canyon things)

Comment by Thottbot

I have been farming Thorium in Burning Steppes and mainly get the small deposits although recently all I seem to be getting is Dark Iron Ore.

The scar area in the centre of EPL is good as i have had only Rich deposits there and I have been getting arcane crystals aswell as other gems from the deposits.

Being a JC this comes in quite handy, all my ores get prospected to gems. I dont think the respawn rates are as good as they could be as I have ran by quite a few lvl 70's running around Burning Steppes and they seem to have farmed all the ore there :(

Comment by Thottbot

Go epl there is allot of Rich thorium vein sometime truesilver too if you need to grind it go there :) (it's better u use a 70 becuase then.. you don't need to kill all mobs arround)

Comment by Thottbot

You gotta be effin kidding me, EPL is horrible for finding RT. Been here for about an hour, found just 3 veins. The mobs are all over the place too where u need to find em, worst place of all the places Ive needed to find any kind of vein..In the northeast areas where RT is most concentrated its covered with scourge... I guess Im either unlucky or u guys are crazy lucky finding veins.

Comment by Thottbot

I've had a lot of luck in both EPL and un goro other places such as burning steppes or searing gorge mostly mithril (sells for a lot in the AH) and SIlithus also has a fair deposit of rich veins there

Twss
Shadowsong

Comment by Thottbot

DWG sucks for rich veins now, if you want to mine thorium the place to be is Silithus.

Comment by Thottbot

EPL is the best place to find rich thorium veins in my opinion. However just walking around with your head up your ass isn't the best way to find nodes.

There's an add-on, "gatherer", that tells you where the nodes have been found in the past by other users (basically, it tells you which resources spawn where.) Using this I've found 5 rich thorium veins in about 10 minutes, However thats with a 70 running round without aggro. And I've only covered half the map!

With gatherer you can run straight to where they respawn, check them all, and then do another circle to get the ones that have respawned since you last checked. If you want to farm, do it efficiently :P

Comment by Thottbot

Steppes has been the best for me. Doesn't appear to be as heavily trafficked as Un'goro or Eastern Plaguelands.

Two circuits around and I went from 270 to 300. It's too bad Engineering doesn't go up this easy (the recipes take several bars of Thorium each proc.)

Goblin Engineers should bring a mining helmet, and all should bring a pair of gloves with Advanced Mining enchantment. This way, you can tap RTV's with 265 skill.

Moderately easy to farm in Burning Steppes because the mobs are relatively spread out or can be tethered.

Comment by Thottbot

I dont seem to find a whole lot of rich viens in un'goro. the best place in my opinion is Winterspring. Owl Wing Thicket sometimes has 1 or 2 viens. as well as mazthoril, but its mostly elites there so its sometimes a bit hard to mine without getting attacked. there is also a cave that is full of yeti's and has small throium viens and rich ones that is right near everlook called Ice Thistle Hills ... Its right beside winterfall village. the last place there is Dark Whisper Gorge... this place has basicaly all rich throium viens but also only has elites, like mazthoril, making it a bit harder to get the ore that you need.
Doing this run gets me up to 40 thorium ores in two hours or so and also some exp.

Hope this Helps!

Comment by Thottbot

Level 60 DK:

My skill was at 295 and I had been pointlessly running around and around Ungoro for an hour. I was competing with several other miners, so I decided to try a less popular spot.

I went first to EPL, because it is supposed to be a super good place for rich thorium (which may be true) - unfortunately the mobs there are all my level, and they are rather tightly packed everywhere I went. I couldn't travel more than a few yards without having to stop and fight off several of them.

I next decided to try Burning Steppes. Good move. The mobs there are a bit lower level, and they are more widely spaced. Within 5 minutes I found dark iron, thorium, truesilver, more thorium, and another truesilver, and that got me to 300. The best area seemed to be the lower center of the map. I had the place to myself, and got my points really quick.

Comment by Thottbot

All I wanted to know is where RT could be found; so thanks to those who listed areas. As for comparing one area to another...seems slightly arbitrary, as the best place for one person would be the worst place to the guy who got there right after him.

Comment by Thottbot

Is there a reason Blizzard does make these more available? Seem once you get to outlands, you can skill up to 375 in maybe 2 hours, where 250-300 may take days.

Comment by Thottbot

SILITHUS! For the love of deities go to silithus!

i spent maybe 1hour there and farmed 3 stacks, as well as lvling my mining to 300 before setting off to outland.

easy as a 78 dk... just ran into each hive.

I can safely say that each hive contains 2-6 ooze covered rt veins... i even found a small thorium vein near hive'ashi

If you don't wanna go there, thats your choice, but seriously it totally beats out wintergrasp and EPL.

Peace!

-Vyna-
Lvl 78 DK
Moonrunner Server

Comment by Thottbot

I was farming EP and i found 5 rich thorium and 13 small thorium, but they respawn almost at the same place, in 5-10 min after.

my loot was:
thorium = 48 ore
dense stone for jc = 55
gold ore = 4
mithrill ore = 12

nice for 1 hours work =)

Comment by Thottbot

MY LORD...Spawn Rates and Spawn Areas are based on Server... No one will have the same outcome unless you are on the same server...Therefore ASK AROUND YOUR SERVER...try the Trade Channel...there are enough Helpful ppl on at any time you will get at least one wisp if not more...

PLZ PLZ PLZ Listen and stop fighting about it...It is a Damn Game!

Comment by Thottbot

I dont know about other servers but on Darrowmere there are no freindly miners. period. all to busy ninjaing eachother. however i have had a lot of luck in silithus and wish all on darrowmere the best of luck.

Comment by Thottbot

These Rich Torium Veins is realy hard to find, and you need to be 275 in mining =(

Comment by Thottbot

Personally, when it comes to regular thorium veins, Tanaris worked very well, and you can still get skill ups on them till 300 if i remember correctly, but when it comes to Rich Thorium Veins, I have had a lot of luck in the hives in Silithus, and Dark Whisper Gorge. Silithus is where you should be if Un ' Goro is being farmed and you can't handle the elites in DWG. Also, the elites in DWG can drop from 12 silver to 20, and from killing 10 of them, i had 1.5g and 3 greens, so it is a very nice farmin spot.

Comment by Allakhazam

wat mining lvl is it

Comment by Allakhazam

I am trying to fix the drop rate little by little, one node at a time, run WoW reader while you play kids, it makes stats more accurate

Comment by Allakhazam

Interesting that Arcane crystals have a 3% drop while the others are less than 1... All I have been getting lately is blue sapphires, az diamonds, huge emeralds, and opals.... And off the small ones no less...

I haven't seen an arcane crystal in probably 50 straight veins now, but I have 5 or 6 of every other crystal in that time.

Comment by Allakhazam

you do realize arcane crystals dont drop off of the small veins, right?...only the rich veins.

Comment by Allakhazam

The first time ever mining on of these I got two arcane crystals in the same vein.

Comment by Allakhazam

zesty clam meat found in a rich thorium vein... wha?... *raises an eyebrow

Comment by Allakhazam

They need to run this database through a script and delete out these junk drops...

If the item dropped once in 439,000... you know it's not supposed to be there. Especially if it's retarded like Morrowgrain or clam meat of all things :)

Comment by Allakhazam

maybe the area was once underwater and a clam got stuck to a vein :D

Comment by Allakhazam

I feel sorry for the 3405 that mined it and got no Thorium Ore...

Comment by Allakhazam

too bad its not like you can find high level epics inside veins, that would be nice^^

Comment by Allakhazam

well, someone found a scroll of agility inside a copper vein...

Comment by Allakhazam

I wanted to know the exact mining skill required to mine these, i keep getting different answers... someone said 255, others said 275... i just want a straight answer lol

Comment by Allakhazam

im just wondering where i can found mass amounts of rich thorium veins or even small ones if you guys dont know
thanks in advance

Comment by Allakhazam

yummay

Comment by Allakhazam

does anyone know the respawn rate of rich thorium veins?

Comment by Allakhazam

of course! didn't you know that rich thorium veins was clams before they ate so much thorium so that they became thorium veins! noob...... ;D

Comment by Allakhazam

Rich thorium vein Requires Mining 275 to mine.

I can usually get 7-9 Rich Veins in one circle of Winterspring, along with a few Small ones that I see on the way from node to node.
I start in Everlook, then I...
1) Head to Ruins of Kel'Theril and get the Rich Vein there(there's always one there, unless it's been mined recently).
2) I head to Mazthoril and pick up the one Rich and one Small in the cave and I port out using the rune at the end.
3) Then I head to Frostwhisper Gorge and get the one Rich Vein there.
4) I then head to Darkwhisper Gorge and get the 2 or 3(sometimes I get 2, sometimes 3) veins there and sometimes a Small vein. Just head clockwise through each little valley, making a detour for the very southern one.
5) I head up towards Owl Wing Thicket and get the Rich Vein there, sometimes it's in a cave, so pay attention to the map because it'll be slightly harder to see because of the terrain on the map + darker color.
6) Up to Winterfall Village and get the Rich Vein there.
7) Northwest up to Frostsaber Rock and grab the Vein there.

Comment by Allakhazam

Wednesday December 6th 2006 I mined an Arcane Crystal out of a small thorium vein.

No im not on crack, and yes i did a double take to make sure it was indeed a Small not Rich.

I was astonished.
: )

First time its happened ever for me and ive been mining for 7 months plus.
I think its an extremely low drop % off small thorium veins.

Comment by Didiai

TOM TOM
/way 54,0 46,5
/way 53,8 51,8
/way 51,3 48,1
/way 46,5 44,9
/way 46,0 52,9
/way 41,0 64,9
/way 39,0 70,3
/way 39,0 77,5
/way 34,1 69,5
/way 30,8 74,8
/way 31,1 80,7
/way 28,4 70,5
/way 21,8 61,0
/way 20,8 42,5
/way 25,5 39,8

Comment by oresteia

There is not a single vein at dark whisper. Don't move based on this map. Probably 2019 wow classic has a much different and harder vein distribution than vanilla but wowhead use the same data. It is not true.

Comment by knotjad

Mining Thorium Ore from Small Thorium Vein requires level 245 skill & Rich Thorium Vein requires a level 275 skill.

Comment by piorek

I farmed Rich Thorium in EPL for last two days.

During that time, I've got 221 Thorium Ore and:
3 Arcane Crystals (1,36%)
6 Huge Emeralds (2,71%)
5 Blue Sapphires (2,26%)
1 Star Ruby (0,45%)
2 Large Opal (0,90%)
1 Azerothian Diamond (0,45%)

To sum up, gems droprate seems to be around 8,14%. I think 3% droprate for arcane crystal is too high :)

Comment by nykion

Burning Steppes Tom Tom macro
/way 15 30
/way 16 50
/way 22 63
/way 26 54
/way 25 46
/way 30 58
/way 30 70
/way 35 67
/way 36 58
/way 42 60
/way 38 41
/way 38 28
/way 47 33
/way 46 40
/way 48 62
/way 54 60
/way 57 23
/way 61 38
/way 66 21
/way 65 32
/way 69 36
/way 72 30
/way 95 31

Comment by INvShika

Winterspring nodes:

Frostsaber Rock
/way 48.2 8.9
/way 51.2, 7.8
/way 54.8, 10.5
/way 49.3, 14.3
/way 50.4, 16.7
/way 55.9, 14.6

Lake Kel'Theril
/way 52.1, 39.5
/way 54, 39
/way 49.1, 44.3
/way 50.3, 43.7
/way 53.3, 44.5
/way 56.7, 43.7

Mazthoril
/way 54.9, 52.9
/way 54.3, 55.4
/way 53.7, 57.3
/way 52.3, 55.6
/way 52.5, 54.3

Frostwhisper Gorge
/way 59.4, 67.7
/way 61.3, 68.9
/way 63.3, 67.7
/way 64.8, 68.1
/way 64.5, 70.5
/way 62.8, 71.1

Darkwhisper Gorge
/way 56.6, 77.5
/way 54.4, 79.7
/way 52.9, 83.4
/way 52, 85.7
/way 50.9, 90.5
/way 53.5, 89.1
/way 56.4, 89.4
/way 56, 86
/way 56.7, 80.9
/way 57.7, 83
/way 58.4, 86
/way 59.7, 88.3
/way 62.1, 85.3
/way 62.5, 82.7
/way 61.3, 79.6
/way 59.5, 77.6
/way 63.5, 77.9
/way 65.5, 79.6

Owl Wing Thicket
/way 66.3, 61.5
/way 64.7, 60.8
/way 65.7, 58.9
/way 66.7, 60.1

Winterfall Village
/way 66.5, 37.5
/way 68, 35.6
/way 67.6, 38.6
/way 68.8, 37.3
/way 69.5, 38.4
/way 69.8, 38.6
/way 70.7, 37.3
/way 71, 37.6
/way 70.8, 39.6
/way 69.6, 41.7

Comment by Zaikahal

I mined my very first Rich Thorium Vein today, and an Arcane Crystal came from it.

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Rich Thorium Vein

This object can be found in Winterspring (325), Silithus (225), Swamp of Sorrows (132), Un'Goro Crater (124), Blasted Lands (36), Eastern Plaguelands (5), and Dire Maul .

Rich Thorium Vein

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