Where to Farm Iron Ore

The best place to farm Iron Ore is Thousand Needles, where Gravelsnout Surveyor (level 29-30) drops it at 3.2%. That is the vanilla 1.12 chance, not yet confirmed in Forever. 667 sources are ranked below by drop chance.

Gold per kill: Gravelsnout Surveyor is worth about 3s 15c a kill in item drops (at Auction House prices). Gold farming spots, level 20-30

Best zones:

The 15 zones with the best source; every source is listed below.

Zone	Sources	Best source	Level	Drop% ▼
The Barrens	4	Weapon Crate		100.0%
Stranglethorn Vale	74	Iron Deposit		100.0%
Scarlet Monastery	23	Weapon Crate		100.0%
Arathi Highlands	43	Molok the Crusher	39	13.2%
Razorfen Kraul	17	Death's Head Ward Keeper	15	7.4%
Uldaman	19	Large Darkwood Chest		7.1%
Gnomeregan	13	Large Iron Bound Chest		5.6%
Razorfen Downs	8	Large Iron Bound Chest		5.6%
Duskwood	25	Solid Chest		5.3%
Hillsbrad Foothills	23	Alliance Chest		5.3%
The Stockade	2	Large Iron Bound Chest		4.2%
Wetlands	15	Solid Chest		3.8%
Silverpine Forest	1	Alliance Chest		3.8%
Darkshore	1	Battered Chest		3.8%
Alterac Mountains	28	Solid Chest		3.3%

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All sources, by drop chance:

Classic data: from the patch 1.12 world data, not yet confirmed in Forever.

Source	Level	Zone	Spawns	Side	How	Drop% ▼	Map
Crag Coyote	35-36	Badlands	28		Drop	0.1%	map
Fey Dragon	24-25	Stonetalon Mountains	2		Drop	0.1%	map
Highperch Patriarch	30-31	Thousand Needles	2		Drop	0.1%	map
Thundering Boulderkin	28-29	Thousand Needles	14		Drop	0.1%	map
Death's Head Sage(elite)	29-30+	Razorfen Kraul	7		Drop	0.1%	map
Magram Marauder	35-36	Desolace	12		Drop	0.1%	map
Maraudine Wrangler	37-38	Desolace	27		Drop	0.1%	map
Maraudine Windchaser	38-39	Desolace	28		Drop	0.1%	map
Maraudine Marauder	39-40	Desolace	6		Drop	0.1%	map
Hatefury Rogue	31-32	Desolace	45		Drop	0.1%	map
Shadowforge Ruffian(elite)	36-37+	Loch Modan	22		Drop	0.1%	map
Legion Hound	29-30	Ashenvale	30		Drop	0.1%	map
Venture Co. Surveyor	41-42	Stranglethorn Vale	8		Drop	0.1%	map
Young Panther	30-31	Stranglethorn Vale	25		Drop	0.1%	map
Swamp Jaguar	36-37	Swamp of Sorrows	46		Drop	0.1%	map
Outcast Necromancer	39-40	Shen'dralas	4		Drop	0.1%	map
Crushridge Mage(elite)	37-38+	Alterac Mountains	8		Drop	0.1%	map
Maraudine Stormer	39-40	Desolace	6		Drop	0.1%	map
Jadespine Basilisk(elite)	39-40+	Uldaman	4		Drop	0.1%	map
Dragonmaw Swamprunner	27-28	Wetlands	11		Drop	0.1%	map
Dragonmaw Shadowwarder	28-29	Wetlands	6		Drop	0.1%	map
Zanzil Zombie	43-44	Stranglethorn Vale	29		Drop	0.1%	map
Elder Mistvale Gorilla	40-41	Stranglethorn Vale	28		Drop	0.1%	map
Nightbane Dark Runner	28-29	Duskwood	60		Drop	0.1%	map
Crushridge Enforcer(elite)	38-39+	Alterac Mountains	13		Drop	0.1%	map
Foreman Bonds	30	Hillsbrad Foothills	1	Horde only	Drop	0.1%	map
Dun Garok Rifleman(elite)	29-30+	Hillsbrad Foothills	12	Horde only	Drop	0.1%	map
Mountain Lion	32-33	Alterac Mountains	30		Drop	0.1%	map
Witherbark Shadowcaster	31-32	Arathi Highlands	3		Drop	0.1%	map
Drywhisker Kobold	35-36	Arathi Highlands	21		Drop	0.1%	map
Dustbelcher Ogre	38-39	Badlands	4		Drop	0.1%	map
Thundering Exile	38-39	Arathi Highlands	12		Drop	0.1%	map
Dustbelcher Mystic	36-37	Badlands	4		Drop	0.1%	map
Ghostpaw Alpha	27-28	Ashenvale	29		Drop	0.1%	map
Uthil Mooncall	32	Ashenvale	1		Drop	0.1%	map
Scorpid Terror	33-34	Thousand Needles	16		Drop	0.1%	map
Magram Stormer	34-35	Desolace	15		Drop	0.1%	map
Obsidian Golem(elite)	38+	Loch Modan	3		Drop	0.1%	map
Hazzali Wasp	47-48	Tanaris	100		Drop	0.1%	map
Venture Co. Foreman	42	Stranglethorn Vale	8		Drop	0.1%	map
Bloodscalp Scavenger	33-34	Stranglethorn Vale	8		Drop	0.1%	map
King Bangalash(elite)	43+	Stranglethorn Vale	1		Drop	0.1%	map
Lost One Muckdweller	36-37	Swamp of Sorrows	13		Drop	0.1%	map
Caliph Scorpidsting	46	Tanaris	1		Drop	0.1%	map
Firebrand Dreadweaver(elite)	57-58+	Blackrock Spire	5		Drop	0.1%	map
Whirlwind Shredder	32-34	Desolace	13		Drop	0.1%	map
Targ(elite)	41+	Alterac Mountains	1		Drop	0.1%	map
Giant Plains Creeper	35-36	Arathi Highlands	43		Drop	0.1%	map
Razorfen Earthbreaker(elite)	30-31+	Razorfen Kraul	5		Drop	0.1%	map
Zaeldarr the Outcast	55	Eastern Plaguelands	1		Drop	0.1%	map
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Recipes:

Recipe ▲	Profession	Needs
Enchant Gloves - Mining	Enchanting	1x
Rock Garden	Mining	1x
Smelt Iron	Mining	1x

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Drop% is the rate recorded in Forever once a source has been looted ten times; a greyed figure is the vanilla 1.12 chance from the world data (classic data: from the patch 1.12 world data, not yet confirmed in forever). Spawns counts the source's spawn points in the world data. "Side" names which side can kill the NPC when the other finds it friendly. The lead picks the best chance among sources that are not a rare spawn and have at least three spawn points.