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Message: <blockquote data-quote="interwyrm" data-source="post: 2711003" data-attributes="member: 31913">In response to the original query, PHB p 112 contains prices for trade goods. On this list are iron, silver, gold and platinum. Iron is 1sp per pound, Silver is 5gp per pound, gold is 50gp per pound, platinum is 500gp per pound.Btw... funny story. Casting wall of iron creates permanent nonmagical iron for the cost of 50gp. I performed some arithromancy involving the volume of iron created, the density of iron, and the trade value of iron, and found that this spell has the possibility to disrupt economies. It creates more gp value of iron than it costs, even at the lowest caster level for the spell... which is... 9 or 11, I can't remember.Finding gp values for mithril and adamantine, and other rare materials is tough. You could try to extrapolate it based on the cost for creating weapons or armor and their weights... but that's not really going to work. An adamantine dagger costs roughly the same amount as an adamantine greatsword. Besides, you have to figure in the costs for working such a difficult material. You could find in one of the faerun sourcebooks (I think) the cost for creating armor from gold or platinum, and compare it to the cost for creating it out of adamantine or mithral.Of course, as the GM, you can just assign arbitrary values to the market value for each mineral.</blockquote>