Mining: Mining is used to extract ores, stones, and gems from mineral nodes found throughout the world. Generally, more of these nodes can be found in the dangerous underground than on the surface. In addition to gathering the raw materials, it's up to the miners to smelt the ores taken from the ground into metal bars. These are the raw materials that artisans such as Blacksmiths and Engineers will transform into deadly weapons and wondrous objects.

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Crafting Example

Forging a Frost Tiger Blade

A Human Warrior seeking to quest in the more dangerous parts of Azeroth has commissioned you to forge a powerful weapon for his use. As one of the most celebrated Human weaponsmiths in Stormwind, you are used to this sort of request. What is unusual, though, are the four pieces of jade (a useful and rare material) the Warrior is willing to trade for your work. And so you set yourself to the forge and begin the process of creating a deadly frost tiger blade.

Checking your recipe, you find that the following ingredients are needed to forge the weapon:

8 Steel Bars
2 Strong Flux
1 Frost Oil
2 Jade
2 Heavy Grinding Stones
4 Heavy Leather

As a weaponsmith, you maintain a stock of iron ore and grinding stones (needed to polish and sharpen the weapon to a fine razor's edge). You take a quick trip to the forge to smelt the iron ore and coal into steel bars. A nearby merchant sells the strong flux that removes impurities from the steel. To fill out the ingredients list, you make your way to an alchemist, but unfortunately you learn that he requires the herb wintersbite to make frost oil for you. So, to acquire the wintersbite herb, you trade a stack of sharpening stones to your friend, who happens to be an herbalist, and then you give the wintersbite to the alchemist, who then concocts the arcane frost oil for you.

Now the ingredients are complete, and you forge the weapon, confident that there will be no failure and that the frost tiger blade will be born from the rare ingredients used to create it. Thrilled with your work, the Human Warrior leaves the remaining jade with you in payment.

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