Skyrim:Quicksilver

Quicksilver ingot

Quicksilver in its various forms

Quicksilver is a metal with a low melting point that is melded with Moonstone when forging elven weapons and elven gilded armor, and with Ebony and Steel when forging Nordic carved armor and weapons.

Overview

	Name	ID	Weight	Value
	Quicksilver Ore	0005ace2	1	25
	Quicksilver Ingot	0005ada0	1	60

• 3 quicksilver ores are obtained by mining quicksilver ore veins.
• 1 quicksilver ingot is obtained by smelting 2 quicksilver ores.

Mineral Sources

In addition to the following guaranteed sources, the best random locations are:

• Quicksilver ingots may be sold by blacksmiths starting at level 18 and general goods merchants starting at level 10.
• Quicksilver ore may be randomly found in Falmer loot starting at level 5.

There are a total of 57 veins, 10 ores, and 13 ingots available in the game. The following list only includes notable locations, in particular locations where multiple veins are located near each other and interior areas containing veins or ingots. The Quicksilver Veins category contains a more complete list of places containing single veins, and all exterior ore veins are shown on (map).

Region	Location	Veins	Ores	Ingots	Details (see place pages for full information)
The Pale	Quicksilver Mine	5	2
The Reach	Blind Cliff Cave	3		2
Winterhold	Blackreach	3
The Pale	Wreck Of The Brinehammer	3			Located 650 ft WNW of the wreck (map)
SolstheimDB	Altar of Thrond	2
The Rift	Arcwind Point	2
Falkreath Hold	Bloodlet Throne	2			(map)
The Reach	Druadach Redoubt	2
Whiterun Hold	Shimmermist Cave	2			(map)
The Pale	Silverdrift Lair	2			(map)
The Rift	Tolvald's Cave	2
Winterhold	The Tower Stone	2			(map)
Whiterun Hold	Fellglow Keep			3
Haafingar	Bards College			2
Haafingar	Castle Dour			2
The Reach	Endon's House		1	1
Winterhold	Saarthal		3
The Rift	Autumnwatch Tower	1			(map)
Whiterun Hold	Battle-Born Farm	1			(map)
The Reach	Bthardamz	1
Whiterun Hold	Cold Rock Pass	1
The Rift	Forelhost	1
Winterhold	Frostflow Lighthouse	1
The Reach	The Karthspire	1
The Rift	Last VigilDB	1
Haafingar	Lost Echo Cave	1
The Reach	Purewater Run	1
Haafingar	Wolfskull Cave	1			(map)
The Reach	Hag Rock Redoubt		2
Winterhold	Alftand		1
Falkreath Hold	Pinewatch		1

Notes

• Quicksilver ingots are used to improve Nordic weapons and armor ^DB.
• Quicksilver ores can be sold to Leigelf for the quest Mine Ore.
• A special sample of quicksilver ore is used in the miscellaneous quest Truth Ore Consequences. It has no other uses — it cannot be smelted into ingots.
• 1 quicksilver ingot is needed at workbenches to improve elven gilded armor.
• 1 quicksilver ingot is needed at grindstones to improve Bolar's Oathblade and Dragonbane.
• 1 quicksilver ingot is needed to build an alchemy lab table if this North Wing addition is chosen as part of a Hearthfire add-on home.
• Ore veins (all types) sometimes do not respawn normally. See Mining (Bugs) and elsewhere on that article and its talk page.