Mining

Introduction

Mining is the skill used to get ores from rocks. To mine, you have to wield a pickaxe On the tutorial island you’ll get a bronze pickaxe. The higher your mining level, the better the rock you can mine. In addition, you mine faster with better mining level and/or better pickaxesBetter rocks are of course more valuable. You can find rocks to mine on “mining sites”, which are all over the RuneScape world. The ores can be used in Smithing to make bars, which can then be forged or crafted into various items.

To see which ore a rock contain, you can right click on it and select “Prospect”. To mine it, simply click on the rock once and wait until you get some ore. Once you have obtained the ore, there will be no ore in the rock for some seconds, depending on the type of ore it contains. When you have mined a rock, you can wait or move to another rock. If someone else mine the rock before you, then the ore will disappear too. You should see the smithing guide too for smelting and smithing details.
NOTE: In the tables, cells with white background are free, while darker background is members   Pickaxes

You can buy pickaxes from Numorf the Dwarf, he’s in the Dwarven Mine. Below, there is a table with information about the different pickaxes.

Picture	Name	Needed level	Shop price
	Bronze pickaxe	1	>1 gp
	Iron pickaxe	4	137 gp
	Steel pickaxe	6	490 gp
	Mithril pickaxe	21