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Kommentar von 724811

From Prospecting 20 Stacks of Elementium Ore

3x Dream Emerald
5x Ocean Sapphire
2x Demonseye
3x Inferno Ruby
2x Ember Topaz
4x Amberjewel

20x Carnelian
18x Alicite
15x Hessonite
3x Zephyrite
18x Nightstone
14x Jasper

Doc Azjol-Nerub

Kommentar von jjhilly

Heres a nice little route I have in Uldum
http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/6949/elementiumuldum.jpg

I find it a bit easier to farm than Deepholm as there are less people around farming there.

Kommentar von Fawnish

Prospected 25 stacks of ore (500 ore in total = 100 Prospects)

Recieved the following:

3 x Amberjewel
4 x Demonseye
6 x Dream Emerald
8 x Ember Topaz
5 x Inferno Ruby
5 x Ocean Sapphire

21 x Carnelian
20 x Alicite
17 x Jasper
21 x Zephyrite
19 x Hessonite
21 x Nightstone

Thats 31 uncommon gems and 119 uncommon which gives a total of 150 oddly enough. Pretty even numbers :) This gives an average of exactly 1.5 gems per prospect. (Excuse my math if I messed up somewhere)

Kommentar von 456721

My results:
Prospected 20 stacks of ore (400 ore in total = 80 Prospects)

10 x Amberjewel
5 x Demonseye
6 x Dream Emerald
2 x Ember Topaz
6 x Inferno Ruby
3 x Ocean Sapphire

16 x Carnelian
17 x Alicite
17 x Jasper
15 x Zephyrite
9 x Hessonite
16 x Nightstone

Combined with above posts:

Prospected 65 stacks of ore (1300 ore in total = 260 Prospects)

57 x Carnelian
55 x Alicite
48 x Jasper
39 x Zephyrite
43 x Hessonite
55 x Nightstone

17 x Amberjewel
11 x Demonseye
15 x Dream Emerald
12 x Ember Topaz
14 x Inferno Ruby
13 x Ocean Sapphire

Kommentar von Faenon

Mining skill 475 required, 500 for the rich veins.

Kommentar von Workher

840 Elementium Ore Prospected
210 prospects with 225 gems looted

Uncommon (green) Gems:
32x Nightstone
29x Hessonite
25x Jasper
31x Zephyrite
35x Alicite
27x Carnelian

Rare (blue) Gems:
6x Inferno Ruby
7x Ember topaz
9x Ocean Sapphire
6x Dream Emerald
13x Amber Jewel
5x Demonseye

Kommentar von 748094

Your best bet inorder to find a load amount of Elementium in only one area without a need to go anywhere is in Twilight Highlands, down at Elementium Depths, where you fight Magmatooth once again. A single run into the deepest part got me a good stack, and if not, the remaining ores left to make up the twenty ores would be replaced by Pyrium.
So get to the cave, and farm your ass off while you still can.

Kommentar von 61125

Prospecting 110 stacks of Elementium ore (2200 ore total)
440 Prospects total

Common Gems

91 x Carnelian
81 x Zephyrite
74 x Jasper
70 x Nightstone
84 x Alicite
76 x Hessonite

Rare Gems

21 x Inferno Ruby
14 x Ocean Sapphire
19 x Dream Emerald
21 x Demonseye
24 x Amberjewel
27 x Ember Topaz

You can view my prospects on Obsidium ore here

Obsidium ore prospects

Kommentar von 705616

Hi,

here are my results from prospecting Elementium Ore
250 stacks => 5 000x ore => 1 000x prospect

183 x Alicite
179 x Carnelian
199 x Hessonite
171 x Jasper
175 x Nightstone
185 x Zephyrite
This yields in 1 092 Common (green) gems

48 x Amberjewel
40 x Demonseye
56 x Dream Emerald
55 x Ember Topaz
47 x Inferno Ruby
41 x Ocean Sapphire
This yields in 287 Rare (blue) gems

Now let's do some math. First % stands for the chance of the specific gem to drop per stack, the second % for drop per prospect.

73.20% 18.30% Alicite
71.60% 17.90% Carnelian
79.60% 19.90% Hessonite
68.40% 17.10% Jasper
70.00% 17.50% Nightstone
74.00% 18.50% Zephyrite
436.80% 109.20% for any Common (green) gem

19.20% 4.80% Amberjewel
16.00% 4.00% Demonseye
22.40% 5.60% Dream Emerald
22.00% 5.50% Ember Topaz
18.80% 4.70% Inferno Ruby
16.40% 4.10% Ocean Sapphire
114.80% 28.70% for any Rare (blue) gem

That's it.

Hope at least some of you find these statistics useful in one some way.

Spirea - Drak'thul EU

Kommentar von 754397

1000 Elementium Ore (200 Prospects)
Moonrunner Realm, 1/19/2011

200 Prospects of Elementium Ore

Blue Quality
Inferno Ruby 8 14.5%
Ember Topaz 10 18.2%
Amberjewel 4 7.3% (Low)
Dream Emerald 9 16.4%
Ocean Sapphire 15 27.3% (High)
Demonseye 9 16.4%
------------- -- -----
Blue Quality 55 19.9%

Green Quality
Carnelian 36 16.3%
Hessonite 39 17.6%
Alicite 41 18.6%
Jasper 34 15.4%
Zephyrite 40 18.1%
Nightstone 31 14.0%
------------- --- -----
Green Quality 221 80.1%

Amberjewels seemed low while leveling; interesting that it came out in the results and that the prospecting followed the 80/20 drop distribution anyway. I heard about varying resources between servers, maybe this is it. I'll do another run to try and confirm. --Agrathus, Moonrunner

Kommentar von 47546

Crunching numbers on the data provided by users for Obsidium Ore and Elementium Ore:

For the purpose of prospecting,

-obsidium provides roughly ~1.7 more uncommon gems per stack
-elementium provides roughly 0.7 more rare gems per stack

This means that for obsidium ore to be preferentially prospected, average selling price of a rare gem should be roughly <2.4x the average selling price of the uncommon gem (R:U ratio <2.4). If this inequality does not hold on your server's economy (R:U >2.4), then elementium should be preferentially prospected. The assumption is that the selling prices of obsidium and elementium approach equality.

On my server, the R:U is about 2.0. Couple with the fact that uncommons sell far quicker due to the advantage of supplying the rares market via transmutation, demand from freshly-geared 85's as well as JC dailies. Also, obsidium tends to be listed 10-20% lower than elementium on the AH. (R:U threshold rises to ~2.8)

For most intents and purposes, JC's wishing to harvest ore for gems should consider prospecting obsidium and selling elementium. Your results may vary.

Kommentar von Andrea87

Still pretty worth to buy off the AH to prospect. Actually on Hakkar orde it's at ~70-80g per stack.

Bought ten stacks, prospected (total 40 prospects) and got:

blue gems:
Amberjewel x4 ~ 20g each, 80g total
Ember Topaz x3 ~ 45g each, 135g total
Dream Emerald x2 ~ 35g each, 70g total
Ocean Sapphire x2 ~ 40g each, 80g total
Inferno Ruby x1 ~ 90g

uncommon gems:
Alicite 6x ~16g each, 96g total
Hessonite 4x ~ 30g each, 120g total
Jasper 5x ~ 60g each, 300g total (today high due to jewelcrafing dailies)
Zephyrite 8x ~ 20g each, 160g total
Carnelian 11x ~ 16g each, 176g total
Nightstone 7x ~50g each, 350g total. (High due to previous daily quest.)

Off rare gems, I got about 455g. Out of uncommon ones, 1202g. Total 1657gold, considering a 5% cut on the AH we're at 1574g. having paid raw materials 700g, that's about 874g on my side before crafts.

jewelcrafting is still a valuable thing in cata.

Kommentar von 774663

Closest forge to Twighlight Highlands for NO Dragonmaw rep toons
Horde: Wetlands - Dun Modr camp
Alliance: Wetlands - Greenwarden's Grove

Kommentar von nubi

According to my Enchantrix, I've prospected Elementium Ores 2123 times (10615 ores).

From these, I received:
94 Amberjewel
80 Demonseye
80 Dream Emerald
92 Ember Topaz
105 Inferno Ruby
81 Ocean Sapphire
--
532 - 25.06% chance of getting a blue gem from each prospect, lower than TheSpirea's numbers from up there :(

354 Alicite
405 Nightseye
380 Jasper
404 Hessonite
400 Carnelian
373 Zephyrite
--
2316 - 109.09% chance of getting a green gem, lower again >:(

Kommentar von Noise

A stack of 20 can now be purchased for 2000 justice points from Togar <Justice Trade Goods> on the Horde side. Looks like Blizzard added a Justice Point dump for players who don't need more heirloom or ilvl 346 gear.

Kommentar von 626791

I am very disapointed that they made this a normal metal, I wish they would have kept it as a rare epic material instead of changing it into the saronite of cataclysm. I miss vanilla wow. :(

Kommentar von 428428

Helpful macro for those of you who want to spam DE the ore

/cast Prospecting
/use Elementium Ore

Drop it to a hot key and do something else :)

Kommentar von 720651

Data from the Prospect addon:
Times prospected: 608 stacks of 5 (3, 040 ores)

Common (Green) gems:
Alicite: 127
Nightstone: 92
Carnelian: 110
Jasper: 110
Hessonite: 124
Zephyrite: 105

Rare (Blue) gems:
Ember Topaz: 31
Demonseye: 30
Inferno Ruby: 33
Ocean Sapphire: 27
Amberjewel: 23
Dream Emerald: 28

On my server it is still worth it to buy the ore (3g 50s each) prospect and sell the gems (Cut or uncut depending on prices).

Kommentar von Kimmberlynn

I was finding it rather lucrative to farm these in Twilight Highlands. A nice path through the river up around Grim Batol. I was finding four and five nodes of Pyrite clustered together around the gates of Grim Batol along with six or so nodes of Elementium Ore just between the two gates. Unfortunately due to the phasing of the zone when you begin the chain Wertvolle Waren it changed the phasing. Now I can see all the nodes on my mini map and visually but when I get close to mining distance they all disappear.

Kommentar von 811411

good post except what zone you were in may of been more helpful than just stats.

Kommentar von buzz3070

For the lore side of this, this ore is not native to Azeroth. This ore is actually from the elemental plane of earth known and
Deepholm. Before the shattering it was a very rare thing to have as the stone mother therazane would not allow the ore to go beyond her realm. After Deathwing broke out of Deepholm during the cataclysm elementim became more readily Avalible on the surface of Azeroth.

Kommentar von Raystigz

Prospecting these and vendoring the gems are probably one of the best ways to make gold right now (till 4.1 when green gems dont vendor for 9g each anymore). These are the stats I got from buying a ton of ore today and prospecting:

Amount of ore: 49 stacks
Cost of Ore: 1960g (40g each)
Amount of green(quality) gems: 211
Amount of green gems extra: 15
Amount from vendoring green gems: 1899g
Amount of blue(quality) gems: 63
Inferno Ruby: 9
Demonseye: 18
Amberjewel: 9
Ocean Sapphire: 6
Ember Topaz: 11
Dream Emerald: 10

Kommentar von 754397

1000 Elementium Ore (200 Prospects)
Moonrunner Realm, 05/02/2011

200 Prospects of Elementium Ore

Blue Quality
Inferno Ruby 7 14.9%
Ember Topaz 12 25.5% (High)
Amberjewel 8 17.0%
Dream Emerald 6 12.8%
Ocean Sapphire 6 12.8%
Demonseye 8 17.0%
------------- -- -----
Blue Quality 47 17.9%

Green Quality
Carnelian 38 17.6%
Hessonite 29 13.4% (Low)
Alicite 35 16.2%
Jasper 38 17.6%
Zephyrite 38 17.6%
Nightstone 38 17.6%
------------- --- -----
Green Quality 216 82.1%

Interestingly, high on the Ember Topaz and low on the Hessonite, but not a clear high on the green quality or a low on the blue quality. The overall drops seem to be down 2% on greens and 15% on the blues. Also, the 80/20 green/blue distribution seems to have been adjusted to 82/18; looks like they're doing some supply side adjustments.
--Agrathus, Moonrun

Kommentar von 243051

We know we get between 1 and 3 gems each time we prospect (between uncommon and rare gems).
I'm interested in the distribution of this.
This is the data I have.
382 times prospected (1910 ores).

1 uncommon: 265 times (69.37%)
1 uncommon, 1 rare: 79 times (20.68%)
2 uncommon: 29 times (7.59%)
1 uncommon, 2 rare: 3 times (0.79%)
2 uncommon, 1 rare: 6 times (1.57%)

I didn't get any of the other possible outcomes (e.g. a lonely rare gem).
If anyone else has data separated in these categories I'd appreciate it.

Kommentar von Bonanca

Now let's do some math. First % stands for the chance of the specific gem to drop per stack, the second % for drop per prospect.

73.20% 18.30% Alicite
71.60% 17.90% Carnelian
79.60% 19.90% Hessonite
68.40% 17.10% Jasper
70.00% 17.50% Nightstone
74.00% 18.50% Zephyrite
436.80% 109.20% for any Common (green) gem

19.20% 4.80% Amberjewel
16.00% 4.00% Demonseye
22.40% 5.60% Dream Emerald
22.00% 5.50% Ember Topaz
18.80% 4.70% Inferno Ruby
16.40% 4.10% Ocean Sapphire
114.80% 28.70% for any Rare (blue) gem

Now let's do some more math :D

We can calculate, how much Gold u get per prospect.

1. The Common (green) Gems:
Price/Alicite * 0,183 + Price/Carnelian * 0,179 + Price/Hessonite * 0,199 + Price/Jasper * 0,171 + Price/Nightstone * 0,175 + Price/Zephyrite * 0,185 = A
A is the amount of gold u get with the Green Gems that u get per 1x prospecting.

2. The rare (blue) Gems:
Price/Aberjewel * 0,048 + Price/Demonseye * 0,04 + Price/Dream Emerald * 0,056 + Price/Ember Topaz * 0,055 + Price/Inferno Ruby * 0,047 + Price/Ocean Sapphire * 0,041 = B
B is the amount of gold u get with the Blue Gems that u get per 1x procspecting.

And if (A + B)*0,95 > 5x ore then u get Profit.

PS: Sry 4 my bad English.

Kommentar von 846144

Hello,

here are my results from prospecting Elementium Ore
10 000 = 500 Stacks

371 x Alicite
367 x Carnelian
361 x Hessonite
355 x Jasper
369 x Nightstone
360 x Zephyrite

97 x Amberjewel
87 x Demonseye
99 x Dream Emerald
99 x Ember Topaz
83 x Inferno Ruby
82 x Ocean Sapphire

Kommentar von 847781

Here is a route I use to get elementium ore in Uldum:
http://www.guitarstars.biz/WOW/
Its sorta like the route on isle of quel danis for adamantite ore.
Not any mobs at all really. (Im 85 and have done about 75 uldum quests)
There is about 2 nodes south, 2 west, 1 north going into the opening
and 2 east. I follow the little ridge on the east side away from the main mountain.
I say they respawn about every 5-7 minutes except for the north one which
takes longer. Check it out!

Kommentar von aprince

I am a JC/Transmute Alchemist, so I bought 25 stacks of elementium and saw what my profit would be if I transmuted all of my greens into blue gems.

I ended up with the following amount of blues:

12 Amberjewel
13 Inferno Ruby
13 Ember Topaz
11 Dream Emerald
11 Demonseye
11 Ocean Sapphire

(this is pretty close to the number people are getting above, plus the proc rate on transmuting gems)

On my server, it cost me ~300g for the herbs to transmute and I bought all 25 stacks of elementium ore from some fool for 36g each (900g). So, I spent 1,200g.

I sold the following (I cut ones where the cuts sold for more than the uncut gem):

12 Amberjewel x 35g each
13 Bold or Delicate Inferno Ruby x 180g each
13 Ember Topaz x 60g each
11 Dream Emerald x 15g each
11 Demonseye (the intel+haste one) x 45g each
11 Ocean Sapphire x 20g each

When its all added up, I made 4,420g. That is a 3,220g profit. Pretty sick for like an hour of work.

Kommentar von 299691

After prospecting 92 stacks of these, I ended up with this:

Alicite x52
Carnelian x56
Hessonite x65
Jasper x56
Nightstone x47
Zephyrite x76

Amberjewel x11
Dream Emerald x13
Demonseye x21
Ember Topaz x19
Inferno Ruby x17
Ocean Sapphire x19

Kommentar von 853420

The Route around Uldum linked by JJHilly is by far the best one ive seen. I got about 8 stacks on elementium and 2 stacks of pyrite. Screenshot posted above is everything I got while Farming per that route

Kommentar von Rawbert

Best place I've found to farm this ( - especially if JJHilly's path through Uldum is overrun) is the Elementium Depths caves in Twilight Highlands. Unfortunately, it's overladen with mobs, so being a stealth unit has its perks. The nodes spawn faster than I can stealth through the caves.

For reference, the cave mouth is at .

Kommentar von bookworm13

For the best resource for determining the mining levels as well as the best zones to farm them in, browse through the Mineral Veins listing.

This will also give you coordinates for the vein spawns.

Teach an elf to fish...

Edit: update link

Kommentar von Workher

367 Stacks of Elementiumerz
367 stacks = 1468 total prospects

Base Percentages
Amount of uncommon gems: 1799 (122.6%)
Amount of rare gems: 428 (29.2%)
122.6% + 29.2% = 151.8%
This means that there is a high chance of getting a double proc from a prospect (~52%).

Individual Percentages
Percentages are based on the number of gems received to the number of prospects done (1468). Rare gems are separate in their own percentages compared to the number of prospects.

Example:
1468 prospects yields 296 uncommon red gems
296/1468 equals out to 20.2% of the total amount of gems compared to the number of prospects.

Red Gems:
296 Karneol = 20.2%
75 Infernorubin = 5.11%

Orange:
291 Hessonit = 19.8%
76 Gluttopas = 5.2%

Yellow:
307 Alazit = 20.9%
56 Heliodor = 3.8%

Green:
298 Jaspis = 20.3%
67 Traumsmaragd = 4.6%

Blue:
316 Zephyrit = 21.5%
78 Ozeansaphir = 5.3%

Purple:
291 Nachtstein = 19.8%
76 Dämonenauge = 5.2%

Extra note: if your realm has a high price for enchanting materials, and you have an Enchanter, make sure to convert your uncommon red gems into Carnelian Spikes (a very high chance of getting 2-3 Greater Celestial Essences per Carnelian Spike disenchanted). Same can go for Jasper and Alicite, although the formers will yield more Hypnotic Dust than Lessers or Greaters.

Kommentar von darthanian

FYI- Anyone having problems mining or herbing with 4.3 getting the "This has been tapped" message you'll need to spam the "Sit" command and try and mine.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/3657278806?page=2

Kommentar von Uldz

Hello, my character username is Uldz on server Alterac Mountain(US HORDE),
I am a jewelcrafter and I have lately seen the potential to make extreme ammount of profits from buying stacks of elementium and prospecting them. This is recent, hard and solid data from patch 4.3.0

I prospected a large ammount of ores to have a credible and solid percentage on every green and blue quality Cataclysm gems. I hope some of you are able to use my hard work to calculate your potential gold profit depending on your server's auction house prices. Enjoy!

(The percentage reflects the chance you have of getting a certein gem).

Stacks prospected: 2000 (8000 Prospect, 40,000 ores)

Alicite : 1582 (19.775%, OR one in 1.2 Stacks)
carnelian : 1600 (20%, OR one in 1.2 Stacks)
hessonite : 1631 (20.3875%, OR one in 1.2 Stacks)
jasper : 1621 (20.2625%, OR one in 1.2 Stacks)
nightstone : 1631 (20.3875%, OR one in 1.2 Stacks)
zephyrite : 1626 (20.325%, OR one in 1.2 Stacks)

AmberJewel : 345 (4.3125%, OR one in 5.7 Stacks)
demonseye : 392 (4.9%, OR one in 5.1 Stacks)
dream emerald : 406 (5.075%, OR one in 4.9 Stacks)
ember topaz : 392 (4.9%, OR one in 5.1 Stacks)
Inferno Ruby : 377 (4.7125%, OR one in 5.3 Stacks)
ocean sapphire : 404 (5.05%, OR one in 4.9 Stacks)

Kommentar von mikeymagicc

Not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet, but I found the best places to mine for was in Deepholme and Tol Barad. You can mine the Gyreworms in Deepholme and have chance to get extra ore, and you might even stumble upon some Pyrite if you're lucky in Tol Barad :)

Kommentar von DjRicko

Easily find the value of ONE ore on your server by plugging the the values of each gem into this formula:
(.186 * ( + + + + + )) + (.00883 * ( + + + + + ))

*Note: uncommon gems are always worth 75s as they can be cut and vendored for that value, even with zephyrite often being sold for less on the ah on some realms)

Kommentar von 293216

I went from having the lowest priced elementium ore on the server to the highest in just less than two weeks. And I could not keep them in the auction house whatsoever but now you can't even give these away anymore. What the heck happened? Are these completely useless now?

Kommentar von domacleod

The unique properties of elementium allow it to absorb and channel elemental forces. Skilled smiths temper elementium in blistering forges, adding to the quality of the item. All such objects are masterwork quality and are immune to cold, fire and electricity damage. Elementium is the hardest known metal. Elementium is so heavy that to craft armor from it would leave the wearer virtually immobile, so the metal is usually only used to craft weapons. Elementium has no market price. It's too rare to be available. It's not something you buy-it's something you go get.

From: WoWWiki

Elementium Ore
Item Level 83
Sell Price: 22s50c

Buyout price: 3g11s25c (each)
Refundable

Good job blizzard!

Kommentar von Drathellia

The Elementium Depths in Twilight Highlands is one of the best places to get a consistent supply of Elementium and pyrite ore. Not to many people usually there and the enemies aren't to bad to deal with. U should be able to average a full bag of E. Ore in less than a few hours of mining with some pyrite to boot. =D

Kommentar von Mike21daisu

There is a place called Elementium Depths in Twilight Highlands, I found about 100-120 elementium and 20 pyrite ores in there, it's a cave and there are lots of elementium and pyrite ores in there, it's the best place for farming elementium ores.

Seems like the ore veins don't spawn as often (if at all) in this place anymore, which kinda makes my comment irrelevant.

Kommentar von 914685

The name Elementium Depths speaks for it self. I was able to make a good 20-30 ores from just clearing it (took about 15 minutes). I find it easier to farm here than to run around in Uldum where there are more people and the nodes are more spread out, so if you're like me, head over to Elementium Depths in south-western Twilight Highlands.

Kommentar von Opachii

Here is a simple route for elementium ore. More will be added later

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Maximaler Stapel: 20

Verkaufspreis: 22 50

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