In my study of how much gold a player can make by soloing various lower-level instances, I decided to make a run through the Deadmines instance. I was able to run through the entire instance in approximately 30 minutes.
Loot from mobs: 1 gold, 43 silver
Junk items sold to vendor: 26 silver, 13 copper
Common items sold at auction house: 18 gold, 52 silver, 68 copper
Uncommon items sold at auction house: 19 gold, 60 silver, 58 copper
Rare items (bind on pick-up) sold to vendor: 1 gold, 89 silver, 83 copper
Total take for Deadmines run: 41 gold, 72 silver, 22 copper
I should point out that I got extremely lucky with rare items, picking up a total of 8 rare (blue) items in this run. However, those items are responsible for less than 2 gold of the total take.
Based on the above, my estimate is that if you ran Deadmines back to back as fast as you could, you’d take in approximately 82-83 gold per hour, based on my server’s (Fenris) pricing.
To help you identify your own estimated value for a solo run through Deadmines, see the list below for a list of the items I looted on my run:
JUNK ITEMS: QTY.
Light Hunting Bow 1
Unbalanced Axe 1
Canvas Cloak 1
Ornamental Mace 3
Stock Shortsword 1
Shiny Fish Scales 1
Murloc Eye 1
COMMON ITEMS:
Pattern: Blue Overalls 1
Wool Cloth 63
Linen Cloth 92
Tin Ore 8
Coarse Stone 9
Rough Stone 4
Copper Ore 9
Parrot Cage (Green Wing Macaw) 1
Lesser Healing Potion 1
Dalaran Sharp 1
Haunch of Meat 5
Copper Modulator 1
Scroll of Strength 2
Pattern: Murloc Scale Breastplate 1
UNCOMMON ITEMS:
Buccaneer’s Cape of the Eagle 1
Edged Bastard Sword of the Bear 1
Seer’s Belt 1
Defender Shield of the Tiger 1
Bandit Bracers of Agility 1
Buccaneer’s Cape of the Whale 1
Pattern: White Leather Jerkin 1
Inscribed Leather Breastplate 1
Blackened Defias Boots 1
Northern Shortsword of Strength 1
Shimmering Boots of the Eagle 1
Moss Agate 1
Bandit Cloak of the Monkey 1
Bandit Bracers of the Whale 1
RARE ITEMS:
Cruel Barb 1
Buzzer Blade 1
Taskmaster Axe 1
Smelting Pants 1
Smite’s Mighty Hammer 1
Emberstone Staff 1
Rhahk’Zor’s Hammer 1
Cookie’s Stirring Rod 1