Metal

Metals are mineral items found as raw ore (in most cases) by mining veins and deposits. They are often usable as ingredients for professions (usually Blacksmithing or Engineering) after being smelted into a purer bar form.

Known metals

Vanilla metals

This section concerns content exclusive to World of Warcraft.

• Copper
• Tin
• Bronze — Alloy of Copper and Tin
• Silver
• Iron
• Gold
• Steel — Alloy of Iron and Coal (Carbon)
• Mithril
• Truesilver
• Thorium
• Dark Iron

Burning Crusade metals

This section concerns content exclusive to The Burning Crusade.

• Adamantite
  • Hardened Adamantite — Smelted from Adamantite
• Fel Iron
• Eternium
• Khorium
• Felsteel — Alloy of Fel Iron and Eternium
• Hardened Khorium — Alloy of Hardened Adamantite and Khorium

Wrath of the Lich King metals

This section concerns content exclusive to Wrath of the Lich King.

• Cobalt
• Saronite
  • Primordial Saronite — Dropped in Icecrown Citadel and used as both an ingredient and currency
• Titanium
• Titansteel — Alloy

Cataclysm metals

This section concerns content exclusive to Cataclysm.

• Obsidium
  • Folded Obsidium
• Elementium
  • Hardened Elementium
• Pyrite

Mists of Pandaria metals

This section concerns content exclusive to Mists of Pandaria.

Note: Kyparite appears to be the hardened sap of the Kypari tree and not a metal.

• Ghost Iron
• Trillium
  • Balanced Trillium
• Living Steel

Warlords of Draenor metals

This section concerns content exclusive to Warlords of Draenor.

Note: Blackrock Ore appears to be a type of stone and not a metal.

• True Iron
• Truesteel

Legion metals

This section concerns content exclusive to Legion.

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Note: Leystone appears to be a type of metal and not a stone.

• Leystone

Special metals

• Arcanite — Created by Alchemists
• Enchanted Elementium — Created by Miners from Elementium Ingots dropped in Blackwing Lair
• Enchanted Thorium — Created by Miners
• Sulfuron Ingot — Dropped by  Golemagg the Incinerator in Molten Core

Other Metals

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• Adamantine — from ^{[citation needed]}
• Adamantium — Deathwing's armor, designed by goblins to keep the powers of the Demon Soul from ripping him apart;^{[citation needed]} Items
• Lesser Bloodstone — Quest; from cave in the Arathi Highlands
• Brass — Alloy of Copper and Zinc; Items
• Cast Iron — Alloy of Iron, Coal (Carbon), and Silicon; Items
• Cast Steel — Items
• Darkspine Iron — Quest; dropped by Darkspine nagas and their Greengill slaves and also found in Darkspine ore chests on the Isle of Quel'Danas
• Elunite — Quest; from a crate in Darkshore
• Fel Stone — from ^{[citation needed]}
• Fel-Wrought — Items
• Iridium — Items
• Incendicite — Quest; from cave in the Wetlands
• Indurium — Quest; from Uldaman
• Lead — No known use; from Gnomeregan
• Palladium — Items
• Platinum — from ^{[citation needed]}
• Quicksilver (Mercury?) — Items
• Rethban — Quest; from cave in the Redridge Mountains
• Rubidium — Items
• Umbral — Quest; from a strongbox in Dun Morogh
• Underlight — Quest; dropped by Blackpaw gnolls in the Ghostlands
• Vanadium — Items
• Heavy Veldarite — Mentioned by Gezhe.^{[citation needed]}
• Wrought-Iron — Alloy of Iron and less Coal (Carbon); Items