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Comment by 8217

Easyiest way to farm copper if your horde is to just follow the mountain range around in circles, don't bother with trying to find the dots in the middle, a full walk around the mountain range will yield around 40bars of copper

Comment by skitzosmeagol

The razor patches, that have the boar people, scattered through barrens also have a lot of copper mines near them. I found the mountain ridges to contain the most copper. I suggest downloading the mod Gatherer which saves the locations of mined nodes, this will help gathering ore in the future.

Comment by 8004

Along with being easy to farm, copper ore sells very well on the ah. NEVER make the ores into bar (unless you're doing it for skillups). Ores sell much better than bars because higher level players with some gold are too lazy to mine the ore themselves. So, they just go buy ours and make it into bars for skill ups. Both benefit!

Comment by 29206

Underwater is your friend. In the Oasises (on near WC and one near Ratchet) there is usually one copper node and one tin node. The tin node near ratchet will sometimes spawn silver as well.
At lower level they're great because you can also farm snapjaws and most of the things they drop sell for 1s plus and you can get clam meat which makes a tasty snack.

Comment by 4093

Copper veins turn from "orange" to "yellow" at 25 mining skill level.

Comment by 37088

I've found that a good and rewarding place to farm is just around durotar outside of Orgrimmar, which I think is a lot easier that going to the barrens because, 1. there are higher levels in the Barrens, 2. Durotar has a lot more of it, and 3. if you are a just starting blacksmithing or engineering, it is easier than buying it off the auction house. Why waste 1-2 gold when you can farm it easily right outside and pick up a couple gems up while you are at it? You can go into Skull Rock and farm in there for a while, or you can just farm outside. I've farmed about 100+ copper in less than an hour with my level 11 rogue and, with rested, got a good amount of rested experience. Plus, if you are not going to use the copper, you can sell it in auction house or send it to another character to get his or her skill up.

Comment by peetue

As a horde, best way to farm copper is to run circles; barrens - durotar. Climb thru the mountain side of both places, I just did and I have 120 copper atm.

Comment by 40798

For Alliance, the best place would be Dun Morogh by a long shot. Particularly in the quarry Southeast of Ironforge.

Comment by 67413

The best place I have found for copper is Silverpine Forest in and around a cave that is full of 12-15ish spiders, The cave itself has about 3 veins and the surrounding hills usually has a decent amount too, everytime i go there i end up with about 40 copper ore in just under 10 min. Its definately worth checking out if you dont have a mount to run all over the barrens.

Comment by 92388

A really good place to get this (for horde) is in Eversong woods its all over and even better if you have mount ive seen them all over the place.

Comment by 94939

I have to say that the best farming for copper I've had so far for the Alliance was in Bloodmyst/Azuremyst isles. In just under an hour of farming I picked up 160 copper ore. And a few pieces of tin.

Comment by 106979

I've only mined it in Dun Morogh, but I can't imagine its much better anywhere else. I got 100 ore by doing a pretty quick run- start at IF, run around the northern range, till you get down to 24/52, then run through the range in the middle, then head over to the quarry (TONS there). Pretty easy way to make like 10g.

Comment by 117763

i dont know about the horde side but on the alliance side copper is over stocked in dun morough. my gnome engineering is already at 120 just by using the copper there and hes only at lvl 10. azuremyst isle also is good. there is a naga cave there with 3-4 veins that respawned for min very quickly. just mine the cave dry then head to odyseuss landing and back and the veins will have already respawned. used that place for my mining and also to farm so i could buy my mount.

Comment by 105816

I found a lot of Copper Veins in Elwynn.
So if you play as Alliance this is a smart route to take ( http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/4245/copperoretl8.png ). You may want to check the Fargodeep Mine aswell.
If you have a mount, you will be done in no time.

I must edit myself here. The Gol'Bolar Quarry in Dun Morogh is a much beter place to farm copper.

Comment by 124079

I got over 200 ore in an hour this way:

Go to Sludge Fen (It's in the Barrens) And from there go to Northwatch Hold. From there, curve around Wailing Caverns to Dreadmist Peak (It's the mountain northwest from Crossroads) and then back to Sludge Fen. Rinse and repeat. Just mine every node in the path and you'll get 150 ore in an hour easily.

Comment by LilithuZ

Best farmin places
Alliance: Gol'Bolar Quarry, Southeast of Ironfore in Dun Morogh
Horde: Thunder Ridge, Soutwest of Orgrimmar in Durotar

Comment by Payson

I believe the Copper Vein maps need to be updated. I just found over 15 veins in the upper half of Durotar, yet the map only shows that there are 12 veins in Durotar total.

Comment by 153244

I suggest downloading the latest version of the Gatherer addon, and then download the wowhead.com database for ores/herbs/treasures. Works like wonders. You can find both the addon and the database at http://www.gathereraddon.com/dl/ You install both of them as a normal addon. Then u open up WoW and check at the "addon" button that they are working. Then you enter one of your characters and press the gatherer button at your minimap (right-click) then you press config. Then just bove the "HUD" tab you press the "Database tab" and import the data. Have fun and good luck! =)

Comment by 178919

Copper is the first ore that you can mine after you have learned the Mining Skill.

Comment by 170070

i farmed 80 copper in 1 hour only mining around Gol'Bolar Quarry

Comment by 193704

Copper bars do actually sell for more sometimes because they r used to level up Jewel Crafting all the way to 100.. Just a note

Comment by 183504

Also, bars can actually sell for a bit, some people want the prof-only items from several things, like people who want the master hammersmith stuff and engineering stuff at the same time, so they dont have room for mining and buy all the mats off the AH. try sell for 1.5g if u can.

Comment by 72808

Just to add, Mulgore ftw.
7 stacks in about 50 minutes, lvl 39 mounted hunter.

Comment by 82583

A lot of these veins dont exist anymore

Comment by 225887

aaaah the great smell of freshly digged copper :D

Comment by 241670

Alliance, Try Darkshore.

'Nuff said.

Comment by 262598

I have seen bars sell for more than ores, but sometimes you can't tell if the ones that are being sold for the normal price have been bought already. So I usually sell a stack of copper ore for about 1g and a stack of bar for about 2 (usually the prices on my server, Alterac Mountains). then I see if the bars sell. Just to make sure that the prices are right, and it checks for both ore and bars.

Comment by 258404

omg now in patch 3.0.3 loch modan is by far the best to mine coper bars... under the influence that u have a mount or a speed buff... some kinda breathing potion or buff and a good lvl to avoid threshers... u shlould rake in about 20-40 copper ore within 20 mins (most veins are found underater or near hte caves and dam)!

Comment by WrathZilla

Personally, when i farm copper i can just run around the mountin north of Northwatch Hold and find about 5 nodes in about 10 minutes i had 50ish copper

Comment by RedwoodElf

I've always found Mulgore to be a good copper farming area...there may not be as many nodes as in the barrens, but they're MUCH closer together. Two trips through the mine in the southeast and copper was already gray.

Comment by 282247

How do i install gatherer addon?

Comment by Spitti3

Was gathering copper and tin ore yesterday for levelling up JC, and thought I could share my experience.

I started with Durotar, making a nearly full lap around the zone (including a visit in the thunder lizard ravine and skull rock east of Org), and finishing with a run through the middle parts. I did this with a level 30 mount. The run took about 45 minutes. I ended up with 112 copper ore and 80 rough stone + some Malachite, Tigerseye and Shadowgem.

Then I went to 1k Needles, mostly for Tin. I did laps around the zone, cutting the middle too. A full search through the zone took about 45 minutes aswell, during that time I got around 60 copper ore, 30 tin ore, 25 iron ore. Meaning you still get a descent amount of copper even if farming for tin.

Comment by 57406

Greys out at 100.

Comment by malmern

I got a question:

Are the veins over The Deadmines bugged?

It says that they are underground when standing over The Deadmines mapwise.

Comment by Qariz

Even though Dun Morogh got more nodes i find leveling mining is way faster in elwynn.
Just know where they are and you find them all the time while questing.

Following the "hills" at the middle of the zone while you're questing is a good idea if you want nodes.

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Comment by 353714

when u need them you cant find them... but when you dont need them you find them :'(

Comment by TeddyZipper

Mulgore though some what low on the list for vein Spawns is incredible for mining for quantity the ore spawns almost 100% on the edge of the area allowing you to do circuits around the area with non need for back tracking. There are two caves with 3-5 veins often in them they take a good deal of time to run in and get though (time=ore). when compared to the barrens i found it still much more productive being a constant circuit and requiring relatively low navigation. At last most people will require tin-bronze eventually. =\ Good luck mining and may the wind be at your back.

Comment by 333732

these are the best places for mining Copper: the Fargodeep Mine, and the cliffs south of Goldshire

these places are in the Elwyn forest and they are treasuries of copper veins. by running through the entire mine one can easily obtain a full stack copper ore not only that but by the time you go to Goldshire to smelt it and get back there, all the copper veins have respawned. and the cliffs just to the south of Goldshire also yield a large number of copper veins. in one hour of going along the cliffs and running through the Fargodeep mine, i had well over 60 copper bars. not only is copper very important for low lvl blacksmiths, its also a huge source of money. until i got to lvl 20, selling stacks of copper bars in the AH was near my only source of money, considering a full stack can sell for up to 3 gold.

Comment by 310954

Look, all the good places you mentioned are very fine but if you want to be close to org and still get alot of copper then go to the place south of org where you will find alot of thunder lizards. both over and inside that kind of "cave" you will almost all the time have a copper node on your minimap

Comment by 173991

Find Copper Ores In Elwynn Forest!
Addon needed: Tom Tom : Download at http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7032-TomTom.html
Macros needed: 10
Copy and paste each section of cordinates into each macro, After completed add each macro into your action bar and click each of them. Check your map and you see the cords, lol happy minning!

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Comment by Willster

ok you guys all have great locations but the best place of horde is southern barrens.there is a circle in southern barrens that i call the mining circle. it has copper (mainly) and tin and silver (one silver vein) and sevrel tin. this is the best way to farm tin and copper in my consercns. both for leveling mining BS/ENGINERING supplies and plain old farming so hf

Comment by Kazanndra

It's really bothering me that there are no veins what so ever in Teldrassil... ok, I can understand why, cause it's a giant tree and most trees can't develope any minerals... But anyway it's still annoying.

Comment by Blights

For those who are worried about getting mining up, don't worry, there is a fair amount of veins in all starting areas, and you will probably have Journeyman mining by level 10.

Comment by Naturell

I ran around whole Durotar in about 10 minutes with epic ground mount, got about 100 copper ores.

Comment by Zuljid

As for patch 4.0.3, on of the best places to mine copper is in Dustwind Cave (north of Razor Hill). There are 4 copper veins inside the cave, and they respawn REALLY fast.

Comment by crazzychic

By far the easiest, fastest place to farm copper is Dustwind Cave and Drygulch Ravine in Durotar.
I found 2 stacks of ore, 2 Tigerseye's, and a Malachite in well under 10 mins.
Start in Razor Hill, exit the west gate, and then head north, following the top edge of the ravine.
The cave is full of level 8-9 Burning Blade mobs, and usually 5-6 Copper nodes.
Don't worry to much about Felblood, as once it stacks 5(?) times you gain Fel-Infused, which regen's 5% max health every second, and transforms you to look similar to a Warlocks Metamorphosis.
Once you've cleared the cave, follow the west side of the cave mouth around and drop down into Drygulch Ravine. The ravine is the home of level 8-9 Harpies.
Clear the couple of trails ahead of you before heading through the tunnel directly underneath the cave, as these are both dead-ends.
Head back and through the tunnel, clearing this area before making your way back to the main ravine footpath to head back to Razor Hill, at which point you can either visit the forge and trainers, or head back up to the cave which should have fully re-spawned by this point.

Comment by Pizzon09

Honestly the best way to make money from selling copper is to get a level 60+ character that has flying on both alliance and horde, then go to the highest spots that has copper (ally=darkshore/elwynn forest) (horde=Durotar/Northern barrens)
This is most likely the best method because you are farming 2 spots on alliance and then 2 spots on horde and you can repeat this process.Check your realms AH on both alliance and horde and see the highest amount you can sell them on alliance/horde and also being the lowest.Then go to a neautral AH and sell copper ore there so that way your horde/alliance toon can go to their AH and sell it for the most they can with also being the lowest.
Then you can sell something thats a lvl 1 grey for however much you want to get from your horde/alliance toon and then go on your opposite fraction that you are selling the item on and go to a neautral AH and buy it,then delete it if you want.This way you are farming ores from 4 states that have some of the most possible and gaining the most money possible from that specific type of ore. I hope this helps you as much as it has for me.This will most likely garrentee that you will habve alot of gold for your toons and you will most likely never go broke unless your a 85 buying stuff in AH and using copper ores to sell. Also a good reason for this moneymaking way is that u can farm 2 stats on alliance and then 2 stats on horde and then go back to alliance and go back to horde because by time u armed the 2 states and farm the 2 on the other faction,the first 2 you farmed will most likely be full of that 1 type of ore

Comment by Berrenger

I found Mulgore to be really good. On my lvl 78 Death Knight with 280% flying speed I did two loops around the outer edge of Mulgore and mined 169 copper ore.

Comment by 255074

Best place now is Darkshore with a flying mount. You will never run out of mines. You'll mine one every 10 secs.

Comment by 852431

today i got 200 ore with 2 circuits on mulgore.
280% flying mount, pony aura=356% mount

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 787695

How the heck do you mine a fish from a copper vein?

Comment by Barringa

As a level 41 worgen druid I found Darkshore a very easy place to farm. I swam down the river in aquatic form, collecting the nodes I saw near the water and in the mountains and caves on the sides. In one trip I got 125 ore.

Comment by 982552

Turns green at 40

EDIT: I meant to say Copper Bars at 40:|

Comment by 984216

If you're struggling with collecting any ore or herbs. Download the addon Bloodhound from curse client. Really easy to use, just download then click track minerals (or herbs) on the usual tracking tab on the minimap. It shows you possible ore as red dots on the map, they change to yellow when you get nearer and this confirms that the ore is there. Very helpful.

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/bloodhound

I got over 80 ore in around 15 minutes using this addon in Durotar - amazingly useful!

Comment by MickMaster01

Copper veins seem to be glitched. I'm at level 95 and they're still orange.

Edit: Fixed.

Comment by 1119692

If you want to farm copper veins, then all you have to do is use common sense. As in when you are choosing a level 1-10 zone to farm in, choose one with mountains and ranges, not a zone with fields and trees. Like for the Alliance, Dun Morogh is a good zone. Then for the Horde, Durotar is a good zone.

Comment by Nightwitch

The best place to mine this is in Cliffspring Hollow, Darkshore and the river outside. It spawns insanely fast there and there are at least fifteen veins in that area.

Comment by Acann

Elwynn Forest
1st Circuit: 57 Copper Ore, 7 minutes (8.14 ore/minute)
2nd Circuit: 60 Copper Ore, 8 minutes (7.5 ore/minute)
3rd Circuit: 80 Copper Ore, 10 minutes (8 ore/minute)
Total: 197 Copper Ore, 25 minutes (7.88 ore/minute)

Path:
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Comment by sivla

Start a pandarian character, once you hit level 5, choose mining. The mines on this island, not only spawn in exactly the same place each time, but their respawn rates are twice as fast as any regular low level zone by a long way.

In just 30 minutes, I had collected over 18 stacks of copper ore, I was not even taking an optimal route..because the respawn times where so insanely short. No sooner than i ran 10/15 meters the vein i had just mined, had respawned again. So yes by far the best place to grab copper veins, its also EXACTLY the same for herbs too.

That being said though, by the time you grab your ore, and by the time you can leave the island, your looking at around 2 hours...probably during that time, your still grabbing more ore until bags are full. You can get x4 8 slot bags on the wandering isle. So while questing and mining you could end up with a huge amount of ore...but the most difficult thing for me, is having made so many pandaren and done the starting zone only to delete them after they have left the island, makes it a major job to want to do it again...choice is yours, but this place is the best in the entire game due to insanely short respawn times and respawns in exactly the same place

Comment by TheWoWExp

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In-Depth Farmer’s Guide to Copper Ore
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Profession Required: Mining
Best Serves: Jewelcrafting, Mining

My miner is a Horde druid for faster in-and-out flight.
Each zone was timed for 30 minutes.
Links will take you to maps on my website.

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★ Elwynn Forest ★
This is an Alliance zone.

Thus, I tried to avoid any contact with guards in this route. You’ll just need to be careful flying over the road leading to Stormwind. Occasionally patrols wander back and forth. This route can be traveled with a ground mount for lower levels–although there may be some locations you won’t be able to get to. This zone is normally farmed by a few people at once.

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★ Azshara ★
This is a Horde zone.

This is not a ground-mount friendly route due to all the cliffs and such. There’s also a small phased zone you may enter, where you could find a Copper Ore node, but not be able to mine it. Just move on if that’s the case.

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★ Darkshore ★
This is an Alliance zone.

This is the best place to farm Copper Ore, in my opinion (especially when there’s no competition about). It’s not ground-mount friendly due to all the fissures in the land, but even if you’re a low level, there’s Copper Ore to be had everywhere you go.

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★ Durotar ★
This is a Horde zone.

This route does go over a Horde area, so Alliance players beware of that. Also, while a good portion of this route could be followed by ground-mounts, I wouldn’t worry too much if you’re a lower level, because there’s Copper Ore damn near everywhere. This zone will be likely farmed by a few different people.

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★ Mulgore ★
This is a Horde zone.

This is one of the more simple routes when it comes to mining Copper Ore in a zone. It's not so much that you even need a route to look at, you simply have to follow along the mountain-side. But, just in case...here you go.

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Copper Vein

This object can be found in Durotar (331), Darkshore (306), Elwynn Forest (249), Dun Morogh (232), Northern Barrens (258), Westfall (195), Azshara (254), Tirisfal Glades (184), Gilneas (169), Mulgore (165), Loch Modan (165), Eversong Woods (164), Azuremyst Isle (140), Redridge Mountains (148), The Lost Isles (141), Bloodmyst Isle (125), Gilneas City (124), Ghostlands (114), Silverpine Forest (90), The Wandering Isle (76), Duskwood (73), Stonetalon Mountains (48), Wetlands (39), Thousand Needles (28), The Deadmines (25), Ashenvale (24), New Tinkertown (24), Badlands (15), Southern Barrens (16), Wailing Caverns (13), Hillsbrad Foothills (6), The Deadmines (6), Camp Narache (4), Thunder Bluff (3), Desolace , The Veiled Sea , and Wailing Caverns .

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