Mining Thorium for fun and profit.
Now the final leg of vanilla mining is mining Thorium. You will head over to the jolly continent of Kalimdor. If you have a mage teleport to Theramore, which is midway in the continent. The you will take a rather long and scenic flight to the lost land The Ungoro Crater.
Ungor is a Dinosaur zone. Ungoro is beautiful , and thrilling in its animal savagry. Giant dinos stalk up and down this zone. You will be mining Thorium ore here. As you level up your mining you will eventually come to a point of slow advances in mining skill.
Only Rich Thorium veins will earn you levels up in the mining skill as you hit 290 mining.
This can make mining here quite a grind.
The payback will be in mining up the odd Arcane Crystal. These Arcane crystals are worth at the moment about 300 gold apiece. They are used to make the required material ARCANITE BARS.
Arcanite bars are made by alchemists. If you follow the herbing guide and max out alchemy on another character you can really make profits making Arcanite bars.
In the Meanwhile , if you dont have a Transmuter Alchemist, You may want to sell your arcane crystals and pocket the earnings. Mining Thorium will be a bit of a grind.
Mining in ungoro follow the river and then switch to following the contours of the mountains.
It is best to mine Early in the morning so you dont have to fend off the other would be earners as they try and get the Arcane Crystals.
Mine and move on and when you get to near 270 to 290 mining skill in Vanilla mining you want to focus on the RICH THORIUM VEINS. These rich ores will give you a better chance of leveling your mining , and dropping an Arcane Crystal.
Mining and smelting Thorium will level you up. If you smelt Thorium while you mine you will level your mining faster tha just mining alone. But once you hit Vanilla mining of 280 to 290 you must focus on the Rich Thorium ores. If you see competiton use your mage port to Ironforge and mine in Burning Steppes , or Western Plaguelands or Eastern Plagelands. I am posting the maps to these zones below.
Seek out the Rich veins at this point and if you see competition port out and repeat until you hit Mining in Vanilla of 300 / 300 skill. Its a grind but it will pay off.
