I thought the respawn rate was a month, but II cleared out Halted Stream Camp, mined all the ore, and waited two months. The ore veins still have not respawned.

I think it might be three in-game months.

Unclearable mines, such as Gloombound mine, repopulate their veins in 10 game days, while cleared mines will take thirty days.

There is a bug sometimes whereby once you've cleared a location, the respawn timer starts... if you are to visit that location prior to the respawn timer finishing, you will forever bug the location such that it will never respawn.

Sounds like this may've happened to you.

I cleared another mine this time and waiited a little over a month. It worked. Thanks for pointing out that bug to me.

No sweat. Its a nasty one when it happens to areas you really really want respawning.


Cue buckom warning you atbout Dagon's shrine and the daedra hearts there. Love ya, buckom.

The mines can be very glitchy with their respawns. One trick I've found is to save the game, enter the mine in question and then leave. Save the game again, and then reload that very same save game. When you re-enter the mine the second time I've found that 99% of the time the ore veins are active again, which leads me to believe that this is a bug with the ore activators not being triggered correctly as usable rather than us mis-timing the respawns.

Note that they sometimes don't look like they're active visually (they might still have the depleted rock look) but you can still use/activate them or hit them manually with a pickaxe to mine your ore normally. Give this a try as it usually works for me.