Mining training
Mining is the skill of mining ores from rocks with a pickaxe. This guide shows where and how to train it on Roat Pkz, how much experience every ore gives and what to do with your ores: sell them for skilling points or smelt and smith them with Smithing. Every ore gives double experience in the Wilderness and in the Royal and Divine skilling dungeons. Runite can only be mined there and in the Donator Dungeon, and amethyst only in the Divine Skilling Zone.
Quick guide
 Levels |
Ore | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 1–30 |  Copper and  tin |
Home, Skilling Zone, Wilderness mine east of West Dragons |
| 30–85 |  Coal |
Skilling Zone, or the Wilderness mine east of West Dragons for double experience |
| 85–99 |  Runite |
Resource Area, Donator Dungeon, Royal and Divine skilling dungeons, Lava Maze, Ice Plateau |
| 92–99 |  Amethyst, which never runs out |
Divine Skilling Zone (Divine Donators only) |
Coal gives the most experience for your time of all the ores below runite, so you can mine it all the way from level 30 to 85. See Training by level for the details.
How Mining works
- Pickaxe: you need a pickaxe in your inventory or weapon slot. If you carry several, the best one you have the Mining level for is used. You do not need an Attack level to mine with it.
- Speed: each ore takes a random time around an average: the rock's time in the table below multiplied by a number from 1 to 5 that depends on your Mining level and your pickaxe (see Pickaxes). Your Mining level has the bigger effect. Levels above 99 do not make you any faster. Times on this page are in game ticks of 0.6 seconds.
- Rocks run out: every rock gives one ore and is then empty for a short time, shown in the table below. When a rock runs out, everyone mining it stops, so a mine with many rocks is best. Amethyst crystals never run out: you keep mining until your inventory is full.
- Where you can mine: only at home, in the Skilling Zone, in the donator zones and in the Wilderness. Runite can only be mined in the Wilderness, the Donator Dungeon and the Royal and Divine skilling dungeons.
- Wilderness: you need a combat level of at least 100 to mine in the Wilderness, and other players can attack you there. Hardcore PvP accounts can only train Mining in the Wilderness.
Rates per hour
The rate tables show what every rock gives per hour, so you can compare them:
- The hourly amounts are what an efficient player gets: every ore takes the time your Mining level and pickaxe allow, clicking the next rock takes about a tick, and emptying an inventory takes about 10 seconds. That assumes you have three or more free rocks; in a busy mine, where other players empty the rocks you are mining, expect up to a fifth less. Amethyst never runs out, so you keep mining without clicking.
- Boosts: the bar above each table has your Mining level, your pickaxe and the boosts you have: a Double XP, Double Harvest or Noted Gatherer scroll (or the Well of Goodwill perk), the Prospector kit, the Mining XP clan perk, the max cape, the Celestial ring and your vote streak. Every table on the page then shows your rates, and your browser remembers what you picked. With nothing picked the tables show level 99 with a dragon pickaxe and no boosts. Rocks your level cannot mine yet are greyed out and show the rates at their level requirement.
- Ores/h is how many ores you get an hour, with the extra ores from Double Harvest, the max cape and the Celestial ring.
- XP/h is the experience you get an hour. XP/h Wilderness is the same in the Wilderness, the Donator Dungeon and the Royal and Divine skilling dungeons, where Mining gives double experience. Runite and amethyst can only be mined there, so they have no normal XP/h.
- SKP/h is what the Mining Tutor pays for your ores in skilling points. It is the same everywhere.
- PKP/h is that in PK points: right-click your skilling points and choose Claim-PKP to get 1 PK point for every 2 skilling points.
Ores
| Level |
Ore | XP per ore | XP in the Wilderness | Time per ore (level 99, average) |
Rock empty for | Sells for (SKP) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Copper ore |
240 | 480 | 2 ticks (1.2 s) | 4 ticks (2.4 s) | 20 |
| 1 | Tin ore |
240 | 480 | 2 ticks (1.2 s) | 4 ticks (2.4 s) | 20 |
| 15 |  Iron ore |
348 | 696 | 3 ticks (1.8 s) | 6 ticks (3.6 s) | 25 |
| 30 | Coal |
684 | 1,368 | 4 ticks (2.4 s) | 10 ticks (6 s) | 40 |
| 55 |  Mithril ore |
732 | 1,464 | 6 ticks (3.6 s) | 15 ticks (9 s) | 70 |
| 70 |  Adamantite ore |
960 | 1,920 | 7 ticks (4.2 s) | 15 ticks (9 s) | 120 |
| 85 | Runite ore |
– | 6,000 | 17 ticks (10.2 s) crystal pickaxe: 16 (9.6 s) |
30 ticks (18 s) | 700 |
| 92 | Amethyst |
– | 9,600 | 33 ticks (19.8 s) crystal pickaxe: 30 (18 s) |
Never runs out | 1,500 |
The times are for level 99 with a dragon pickaxe; the crystal pickaxe is only faster for runite and amethyst. Runite and amethyst can only be mined where Mining gives double experience, so their experience already includes that bonus. The experience is before the bonuses below. "Sells for" is what the Mining Tutor pays for one ore; see Selling and using your ores.
Rates by rock
| Level |
Rock | Ores/h | XP/h | XP/h Wilderness |
 SKP/h |
 PKP/h
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1+ | Copper or tin |
1,576 | 378,184 | 756,369 | 31,515 | 15,757 |
| 15+ | Iron |
1,234 | 429,603 | 859,206 | 30,862 | 15,431 |
| 30+ | Coal |
1,015 | 694,072 | 1,388,144 | 40,589 | 20,294 |
| 55+ | Mithril |
748 | 547,754 | 1,095,509 | 52,381 | 26,190 |
| 70+ | Adamantite |
661 | 635,003 | 1,270,006 | 79,375 | 39,687 |
| 85+ | Runite |
306 | – | 1,837,003 | 214,317 | 107,158 |
| 92+ | Amethyst |
170 | – | 1,627,734 | 254,333 | 127,166 |
Runite and amethyst can only be mined where Mining gives double experience, so they have no normal XP/h. Rates assume you have three or more free rocks; in a busy mine expect up to a fifth less.
Equipment
Pickaxes
Main article: Pickaxes
The Mining Tutor (::mining) sells every standard pickaxe for skilling points, from a free bronze pickaxe to the crystal pickaxe (level 71, 300,000 skilling points), the fastest one. The Skilling Tutor at home also gives a free bronze pickaxe. The dragon (level 61), infernal (61) and crystal pickaxes have a special attack that raises your Mining level by 3.
An ore takes its time in the Ores table multiplied by the number for your level and pickaxe:
| Pickaxe | Level | ×5 | ×4 | ×3 | ×2 | ×1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bronze |
1 | 1–26 | 27–59 | 60–92 | 93–99 | – |
 Iron |
1 | 1–19 | 20–52 | 53–85 | 86–99 | – |
 Steel |
6 | 6–13 | 14–46 | 47–79 | 80–99 | – |
 Black |
11 | – | 11–39 | 40–72 | 73–99 | – |
 Mithril |
21 | – | 21–33 | 34–66 | 67–99 | – |
 Adamant |
31 | – | – | 31–59 | 60–92 | 93–99 |
 Rune or gilded |
41 | – | – | – | 41–72 | 73–99 |
| Dragon, infernal or 3rd age |
61 | – | – | – | 61–66 | 67–99 |
| Crystal |
71 | – | – | – | – | 71–99 |
 Aquatic adze |
1 | – | – | 1–33 | 34–66 | 67–99 |
From level 73 a rune pickaxe is as fast as a dragon pickaxe, and from 93 an adamant one is too. The crystal pickaxe and the Aquatic adze take another tenth off, rounded up: at level 99 that only makes runite (16 ticks) and amethyst (30 ticks) faster. The Aquatic adze is as strong as a crystal pickaxe but has no level requirement, and 9 ores in 10 come out as banknotes.
The infernal pickaxe mines as fast as a dragon pickaxe. 1 ore in 6 from copper, tin, iron, mithril, adamantite and runite rocks comes out as a bar instead (a bronze, iron, mithril, adamantite or runite bar), and you also get the Smithing experience for smelting it, for example 1,600 for a runite bar before bonuses. You do not need a Smithing level or any coal. The Mining and Smithing Tutors do not buy bars, so selling your ores earns about a sixth less on those rocks unless you smith the bars; see Smithing training.
Prospector kit
Main article: Prospector kit
Each piece of the Prospector kit gives 2% more Mining experience, and all four give 10%. The Golden prospector pieces give the same bonus, and you can mix both sets. There is no level requirement. The Mining Tutor sells both: the helmet for 20,000 skilling points, the jacket for 40,000, the legs for 30,000 and the boots for 10,000.
Celestial ring
The Celestial ring (200,000 skilling points from the Mining Tutor, untradeable) gives you about a 1 in 10 chance on every ore to get a second ore and the experience for it. In the Wilderness the extra ore goes into your inventory as a banknote. It works together with the max cape: with both, about 1 ore in 5 gives you an extra ore. See other experience items.
Experience bonuses
Every ore gives the experience in the tables above, raised by these bonuses. Pick them in the bar above any rate table to see your rates with them.
| Bonus | Effect |
|---|---|
| Prospector kit |
+2% per piece, +10% for the full kit |
 Wilderness, Royal and Divine skilling dungeons |
+100%: double experience |
 Vote streak |
+1% for every day in a row you have voted, up to +50% (::votestreak shows yours)
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| Mining XP (10%) clan perk | The total is multiplied by 1.1 |
 Double XP scroll or the Well of Goodwill's Double XP perk |
The total is doubled |
 Max cape |
About 1 ore in 10 gives you a second ore and double experience |
| Celestial ring |
About 1 ore in 10 gives you a second ore and its experience |
The kit, Wilderness and vote streak bonuses are added together first, and the clan perk and double experience multiply the result. For example, a runite ore gives 3,000 experience before the Wilderness bonus. Mined in the Wilderness it gives 6,000, with the full Prospector kit 6,300 (3,000 × 2.1), and with a 50-day vote streak as well 7,800 (× 2.6). The clan perk raises that to 8,580 and double experience to 17,160.
Level boosts
Your boosted Mining level counts for the level requirements, for your pickaxe and for the speed of every ore (up to level 99):
- An Indomitable Skiller scroll sets your Mining level to 99 for an hour, and a Skill Boost scroll raises it by 25 levels for an hour; see Scrolls.
- The Royal skilling dungeon boosts your skills by 15 levels and the Divine Skilling Zone by 25 levels, up to 99, while you are inside.
- The special attack of the dragon, infernal and crystal pickaxes boosts your Mining level by 3.
Other scrolls
- The Double Harvest scroll and the Well of Goodwill's Double Harvest perk give you two ores every time, which doubles the skilling points. The experience stays the same, and your inventory fills twice as fast.
- With the Noted Gatherer scroll, half of your ores go into your inventory as banknotes, so you empty your inventory half as often.
Where to mine
::mining).| Location | Getting there | XP | |
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| Home (Edgeville) | ::home, next to the Skilling Tutor |
Normal | 4 / 4 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Skilling Zone | ::mining |
Normal | 6 / 6 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 8 | – | – |
| Donator Zone | ::dzone (donators) |
Normal | – | – | 8 | 4 | 4 | – | – |
| Wilderness mine east of West Dragons level 9–10 |
::west, then east |
Double | 5 / 5 | – | 34 | – | – | – | – |
| Wilderness mine west of Chins level 29–32 |
::chins, then west |
Double | – | 16 | 31 | 19 | 8 | – | – |
| Lava Maze level 46 |
::44, then east |
Double | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | – |
| Ice Plateau level 50–53 |
::44, then north |
Double | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | – |
| Resource Area level 51–54 |
See Getting there; entry fee | Double | – | – | 6 | 2 | 4 | 8 | – |
| Donator Dungeon level 31–50 |
::donator-dungeon |
Double | – | – | 14 | – | 8 | 8 | – |
| Royal skilling dungeon | Teleport interface (Royal Skilling Zone) | Double, +15 levels | – | – | 10 | 2 | 5 | 7 | – |
| Divine Skilling Zone | Teleport interface | Double, +25 levels | 3 / 3 | 7 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 16 | 16 |
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Level 52-53 – Deep center Wilderness (north of the Bandit Camp / east of the Lava Maze) · 3188-3194, 3937-3941
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Level 46 – Deep west Wilderness (Lava Maze, east of ::44) · 3059-3060, 3884-3885
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Level 50-53 – Deep far-west Wilderness (Ice Plateau, north of ::44) · 2948-2976, 3914-3937
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Level 44 – Deep Wilderness Dungeon, under the west Wilderness (Lava Maze area) · 3046, 10265
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Level 37 – Donator Dungeon (::donator-dungeon), Super Donator section · 3063, 2549
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Level 43 (Extreme section), 47 (Legendary section) – Donator Dungeon (::donator-dungeon), Extreme and Legendary Donator sections · 3020-3024, 2591-2604 (Extreme) and 3044-3046, 2629-2631 (Legendary)
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Not in the Wilderness, but a donator PvP dungeon: other players can attack you
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Not in the Wilderness, but a donator PvP dungeon: other players can attack you
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Not in the Wilderness, but a donator PvP dungeon: other players can attack you
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Safe area
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Level 10 – West Wilderness, skeleton mine east of the West Dragons (north of Edgeville) · 3013-3023, 3587-3597
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Safe area
The numbers are how many rocks of each ore there are. The Donator Dungeon is open to every donator rank, but its runite rocks are in the Super, Extreme and Legendary Donator sections. The Royal skilling dungeon is for Royal Donators and the Divine Skilling Zone for Divine Donators. Every Wilderness mine, the Donator Dungeon and the Royal and Divine dungeons are dangerous: other players can attack you, and you lose your items when you die (see Items Kept on Death).
Training by level
The numbers of ores below use the experience given in each section, without the Prospector kit or other bonuses.
Levels 1–30: copper and tin
Mine copper and tin (240 experience each) at home or in the Skilling Zone. Iron (level 15, 348 experience) takes a little longer per ore and gives about the same experience for your time, so you can switch to it if the copper and tin rocks are busy. Once your combat level is 100, the Wilderness mine east of West Dragons (::west, level 9–10) gives double experience for copper and tin.
Levels 30–85: coal
Coal gives 684 experience per ore and takes 4 ticks at level 99, which is more experience for your time than iron, mithril or adamantite. From 30 to 85 you need about 4,750 coal, or about 2,370 in the Wilderness: about 5 hours in the Skilling Zone, or under 3 hours in the Wilderness. The Skilling Zone has 12 coal rocks, but the Wilderness mine east of West Dragons (::west, level 9–10) has 34 coal rocks, gives double experience and is close to home.
Mithril (level 55) and adamantite (level 70) give fewer experience points for your time, but they are worth more skilling points: an adamantite ore sells for 120 skilling points, a coal for 40.
Levels 85–99: runite
Runite ore gives 6,000 experience (runite can only be mined where Mining gives double experience) and is worth 700 skilling points. A rock is empty for 30 ticks after each ore, so try to have two or three rocks to yourself. From 85 to 99 you need about 1,630 runite ores, about 5 hours with rocks to yourself. The Resource Area has 8 runite rocks, the Donator Dungeon 8, the Royal skilling dungeon 7 and the Divine Skilling Zone 16, and there are 2 more in the Lava Maze and 3 on the Ice Plateau.
Levels 92–99: amethyst
Divine Donators can mine amethyst in the Divine Skilling Zone: 9,600 experience per crystal, and the 16 crystals never run out, so you can keep mining without moving. From 92 to 99 you need about 680 amethyst, about 4 hours of mining. You can start at level 67, because the zone boosts your Mining level by 25.
Best rates
Most experience
| Rock | Level | Ores/h | XP/h | XP/h Wilderness |
SKP/h
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| Runite |
85+ | 306 | – | 1,837,003 | 214,317 |
| Amethyst |
92+ | 170 | – | 1,627,734 | 254,333 |
| Coal |
30+ | 1,015 | 694,072 | 1,388,144 | 40,589 |
| Adamantite |
70+ | 661 | 635,003 | 1,270,006 | 79,375 |
Runite gives the most experience for your time, about 1.8 million an hour at level 99 (1.9 million with a crystal pickaxe), as long as you have rocks to yourself. Amethyst gives about a tenth less, but it never runs out, so you need very few clicks. Coal gives about 1.4 million an hour in the Wilderness, three quarters of runite, and about 700,000 in the Skilling Zone, the most of any rock in a safe area.
Most skilling points
| Rock | Level | Ores/h | SKP/h |
PKP/h |
XP/h Wilderness |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amethyst |
92+ | 170 | 254,333 | 127,166 | 1,627,734 |
| Runite |
85+ | 306 | 214,317 | 107,158 | 1,837,003 |
| Adamantite |
70+ | 661 | 79,375 | 39,687 | 1,270,006 |
| Mithril |
55+ | 748 | 52,381 | 26,190 | 1,095,509 |
Amethyst earns the most skilling points: about 255,000 an hour (280,000 with a crystal pickaxe), about a fifth more than runite's 215,000 to 225,000. For everyone without the Divine Donator rank, runite is the best money from Mining: one runite ore is worth almost six adamantite ores. In safe areas adamantite earns the most, about 80,000 an hour.
Selling and using your ores
| Shop | Where | Buys | |
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Mining Tutor | Skilling Zone (::mining), Donator Zone, Divine Skilling Zone |
Every ore on this page |
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Smithing Tutor | Skilling Zone (::smithing), Donator Zone, Resource Area, Royal skilling dungeon, Divine Skilling Zone |
Every ore except amethyst, at the same prices |
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Skilling Tutor | Home | Copper and tin ore |
- Selling: the tutors pay the full price in the table above for every ore, noted or not. You can turn skilling points into PK points at 2 skilling points for 1 PK point.
- Smithing: smelt your ores into bars and smith them into items. Smithing an item gives you the skilling-point value of the ores in its bars plus extra skilling points, which are doubled in the Wilderness. Runite bars can only be smelted and smithed in the Wilderness and the Royal and Divine skilling dungeons. See Smithing training.
- Amethyst: with a chisel you can turn amethyst into amethyst bolt tips (level 83 Fletching), arrowtips (85), javelin heads (87) or dart tips (89); see Fletching training.
- Trading post: you can also trade ores with other players.
Shooting Star
Main article: Shooting Star
Five times a day a Shooting Star lands in the Wilderness. You need a combat level of 126 to mine it, but no pickaxe or Mining level: the pickaxe you mine it with depends on how much stardust you carry. Every time you mine the star you get a handful of stardust and 100 Mining experience before bonuses, which is 200 because the star always lands in the Wilderness. The Prospector kit counts too. You can sell the stardust to Stark (::stark).
A star lasts 25 minutes and each mine takes about 7.5 seconds, so you can mine it about 190 times: about 125,000 stardust at level 99 and 38,000 Mining experience (200 a mine) before the other bonuses. Every 5 Mining levels add 12 stardust a mine, and your boosted level counts. The Stardust Frenzy scroll doubles your stardust, the Starburst clan perk adds half, and the Well of Goodwill's Double Wildy perk doubles it again.
| Setup | Stardust per star | PK points (sold to Stark) |
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| Level 99, starting with no stardust | 125,000 | 12,500 |
| Level 99, carrying 200,000 stardust from the start (crystal pickaxe) | 136,000 | 13,600 |
| Level 99, Stardust Frenzy scroll | 259,000 | 25,900 |
| Level 99, Starburst clan perk and Stardust Frenzy scroll | 395,000 | 39,500 |
AFK Mining
Main article: AFK Skilling
In the AFK Skilling zone (::afkskilling) you can train Mining at the crashed star without a pickaxe once you have level 50 Mining. You do not get any ores, and the experience is lower than active mining, but your character keeps mining while you are away and you earn AFK Tokens for the AFK Skilling Shop. The Prospector kit, vote streak, clan perk and double experience count there too. Divine Donators also have an AFK mining spot in their own zone.
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Other rewards
- Pet: while you mine you can receive a
Rock golem skilling pet, which comes in a different colour for each kind of rock. It comes more often in the Wilderness and the Royal and Divine skilling dungeons. - Clue scrolls and Skilling Crates: you can also receive clue scrolls and
Skilling Crates while mining. - Achievements give skilling points for your Mining level and experience and for the number of rocks and runite rocks you mine. Reaching level 25 Mining gives you a mithril pickaxe.
- Daily tasks can ask you to mine rocks in the Wilderness or stardust during a Shooting Star.
- Skillcapes: at level 99 you can wear the
Mining cape, which the Skilling Master in the Skilling Zone gives out for free. With 200 million Mining experience you can buy the Mining mastery cape from him for 200,000 PK points.