Iron Ore is a basic crafting material in Crimson Desert. It’s used primarily for refining weapons, plate armor and metal shields at the blacksmith.
Iron Ore
Item Stats
Pickaxes greatly increase the number of ore and minerals you get from mining.
Number of this material required to fully upgrade a piece of equipment
A reliable source / location for this item.
A silvery-gray metal ore. Tough, yet easy to process, it’s widely used on weapons, nails, and basic components. It’s the most common refinement material and you’ll often spot them in exposed seams along cliff faces and near quarries.
How to Obtain
Iron Ore is plentiful in Pywel. You will find it in exposed veins on rocks as well as in caves.
How to find Iron Ore
As you explore the open world, you will stumble on exposed veins in the cliffs. They will immediately be marked on your map. The same applies for Iron Ore resources hidden inside caves.

Open your Map and apply the Environment Filter to better see the locations of Iron Ore.

How to Collect Iron Ore
Make sure you have a Pickaxe in your Inventory. Open the Weapons Wheel and choose an appropriate tool for the job.

Aim at the vein and when you see the blue mark, hit the attack button.

Send Mission Dispatch
You can send Mission Dispatches from your Greymane Camp to Quarries once you discover the locations and liberate them (if they are not free). Iron Ore is granted by the following missions:
- Burnhand Quarry – Advanced Mining
- Southern Quarry – Hasty Mining
- Perwin Quarry – Advanced Mining
- Crimson Quarry – Large-Scale Mining
- Fort Manub – Large-Scale Mining
Secret Farming Island
There is a small island in the middle of a pool of water in northern Delesyia – Stoneback Crab Wetlands. This is a location you will visit during a side quest from the Redfox Trading Company faction quests in Delesyia for the Lake Stoneback Crab questline involving an interesting boss fight against the Queen Stoneback Crab boss.
This island is incredibly rich in several types of ore you can mine, including Iron Ore, Copper Ore, Scolecite Ore, Garnet, and Azurite. And the best part is that you can teleport to the nearby Abyss Nexus on the south side of this small island and return to farm again. The nodes respawn. There are various plants and bugs you can catch nearby as well.
Quest Reward
Buy from Merchant
Additional Info
If you can get your hands on an Upgraded Mining Tools, you will get better results. You can use any of the following tools that are considered better than the standard pickaxe and definitely better than Force Palm:
You can slot something like Blessing of the Earth Abyss Gear into your equipment to further increase the quantity of Iron Ore you obtain.





