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Mining profit

What each recipe's materials cost on the US Normal auction houses, against what the item sells for there.

Showing Normal. Each game type trades on its own houses, so their prices are never mixed.

Best recipes right now

10 of 15 recipes make a profit.

Recipes by profit
Item and materials	Materials	Sells for	Profit	Margin
Dark Iron Bar Mining: Smelt Dark Iron 8x Dark Iron Ore	80 silver	4 gold 99 silver	+4 gold 19 silver	+525%
Azerothium Bar Mining: Smelt Azerothium 2x Pitchblende 1x Coal vendor	1 gold 55 silver	3 gold 49 silver	+1 gold 94 silver	+125%
Rock Garden Mining 2x Heavy Stone 1x Iron Ore 1x Silver Bar	14 silver 92 copper	89 silver 99 copper	+75 silver 7 copper	+503%
Heavy Thorium Bar Mining: Smelt Heavy Thorium 1x Heavy Thorium Ore	27 silver 99 copper	1 gold	+72 silver 1 copper	+257%
Mithril Bar Mining: Smelt Mithril 1x Mithril Ore	9 silver 58 copper	10 silver 50 copper	+92 copper	+9.6%
Bronze Bar makes 2 Mining: Smelt Bronze 1x Copper Bar 1x Tin Bar	3 silver 17 copper	3 silver 44 copper	+27 copper	+8.5%
Tin Bar Mining: Smelt Tin 1x Tin Ore	1 silver 94 copper	2 silver 19 copper	+25 copper	+13%
Iron Bar Mining: Smelt Iron 1x Iron Ore	3 silver 29 copper	3 silver 44 copper	+15 copper	+4.6%
Truesilver Bar Mining: Smelt Truesilver 1x Truesilver Ore	15 silver 90 copper	16 silver	+10 copper	+0.6%
Copper Bar Mining: Smelt Copper 1x Copper Ore	90 copper	98 copper	+8 copper	+8.9%
Steel Bar Mining: Smelt Steel 1x Iron Bar 1x Coal vendor	8 silver 44 copper	8 silver 35 copper	-9 copper	-1.1%
Thorium Bar Mining: Smelt Thorium 1x Thorium Ore	18 silver 50 copper	18 silver	-50 copper	-2.7%
Gold Bar Mining: Smelt Gold 1x Gold Ore	9 silver	8 silver 25 copper	-75 copper	-8.3%
Lodestone Mining 1x Rough Stone 1x Copper Bar	1 silver 8 copper	28 copper	-80 copper	-74%
Silver Bar Mining: Smelt Silver 1x Silver Ore	6 silver 59 copper	4 silver 35 copper	-2 silver 24 copper	-34%

How we work it out

Materials cost their market price on the Normal houses. Thread, vials, flux, dyes and other trade supplies cost their vendor price.
The item sells for its market price, times how many the recipe makes.
Only items with at least 3 listings, so one odd listing does not make a recipe look great.
The auction house keeps a cut of every sale and takes a deposit. These numbers leave both out.

Market price: a quarter of all units listed cost this or less. Updated every hour.