Mining training

Mining is a great skill to make money with at high level, you can start off at home then move to the west side of the Skilling Island and mine in the pit. (2x XP in wilderness).

Equipment

The only item required to mine is a pickaxe. A certain Attack level is required to wield one, but players are still able to use the pickaxe to mine without the Attack level requirement. Players should use the best pickaxe available for the fastest mining speed.

Using an infernal pickaxe is recommended if using the fastest training methods. Mining rocks with it will give a 1/3 chance for the ore to automatically combust, which will consume the ore. This reduces the number of ores that need to be dropped, and also grants some passive Smithing experience. Making an infernal pickaxe requires level 85 Smithing, and it can be charged with dragon pickaxes or smouldering stones. The former are usually cheaper, but using the infernal pickaxe can still be somewhat expensive for some players.

For other methods, the crystal pickaxe performs better, and it should be used if the player has enough crystal shards for it.

Pickaxes

Higher tiers of pickaxes take less time between rolls while mining. Each tick is a period of 0.6 seconds. When the allotted time passes, the game will roll whether or not you mine something successfully. The chance itself is affected by your Mining level and the tier of pickaxe you use.

Item				Shop price	Weight	Ticks between rolls
	Bronze pickaxe	1	1	Free	2.267 kg	8
	Iron pickaxe	1	1	100 Skilling points	2.267 kg	7
	Steel pickaxe	6	5	250 Skilling points	2.267 kg	6
	Black pickaxe	11	10	500 Skilling points	0.01 kg	5
	Mithril pickaxe	21	20	1000 Skilling points	1.814 kg	5
	Adamant pickaxe	31	30	10,000 Skilling points	2.721 kg	4
	Rune pickaxe	41	40	25,000 Skilling points	2.267 kg	3
	Dragon pickaxe	61	60	50,000 Skilling points	2.4 kg	2.83
	Infernal pickaxe	61	60	250,000 Skilling points	2.4 kg	2.83
	Crystal pickaxe	71	70	300,000 Skilling points	1.36 kg	2.75

Prospector kit

The Prospector kit obtained from the Mining Tutor at ::Mining. provides a total of 10% bonus Mining experience when worn.

The full set costs 100k Skilling points

Gold prospector has the same xp bonuses as the normal prospector outfit

Item		XP Bonus
	Prospector helmet	0%
	Prospector jacket	0%
	Prospector legs	0%
	Prospector boots	0%
Sub-total		0%
Set bonus		0%
Full set		10%

Other

The Celestial Ring has been added to the mining shop for 200,000 Skilling Points. It is untradeable and therefore an item that will last you forever (always kept on death).

It has a 10% chance of doubling the ores & xp you receive while mining an ore, in the wilderness the second ore will go into your inventory noted. It also works with Runite ores.

Fastest experience

To gain Mining experience most efficiently, players should always drop the ores they mine (also known as "powermining" or "dropmining"). This can be done by holding the shift key and clicking on the ore once shift drop has been enabled in the options.

Levels 1–15: Copper/Tin ore

From level 1 to 15, players should mine copper or tin. This can be done anywhere, though the Lumbridge Swamp mining site is debatably the easiest due to its relative lack of players and aggressive monsters, and its collection of copper and tin rocks.

Levels 15–30: Iron ore

Mining iron offers the fastest experience from level 15 to 30.

Levels 30–55: Coal ore

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3-tick granite mining in action.

3-tick mining granite (commonly referred to as "3t4g", 3-tick 4 granite) at the Quarry offers the fastest Mining experience from level 45 onwards. 3-tick mining is done by using swamp tar on a clean herb (or other suitable items) to set up the 3-tick cycle and then moving to a granite rock to mine it. When timed correctly, the player will skip the delay from moving to the granite rock and has a chance to receive a rock every three ticks. The player will need to move between four granite rocks to continuously keep up the 3-tick cycle.

While 3-tick mining granite offers the fastest experience, it is very click-intensive and can be hard to learn. This method is not worth doing without tick manipulation, as the experience rates would be much lower. Players who are new to tick manipulation methods may find it worthwhile to train with iron before attempting to train with granite, as mining iron offers relatively high rates at lower levels.

Experience rates are shown in the table below. The rates assume wearing the Varrock armour and an uncharged celestial ring, and the Mining cape at level 99. At maximum efficiency, it is possible to gain up to 134,000 experience per hour at level 99, though players are more likely to see rates closer to around 120,000–125,000 experience per hour when including some mistakes. When using the infernal pickaxe, players will also gain around 7,000–10,000 passive Smithing experience per hour depending on the Mining level. Without tick manipulation players can only gain around 63,000 experience per hour at best.

level	XP/h
45	86,000
55	94,000
65	100,000
75	106,000
85	113,000
95	118,000
99	125,000

Other methods

Levels 60–99: Crashed stars

Mining crashed stars offers low experience rates but requires very little attention. As part of the Shooting Stars Distraction and Diversion, a shooting star will fall at a random spot selected from a predetermined list. Once the player has found a crashed star, they can mine it for 42–63 minutes depending on its tier before the star depletes. Each tier can be mined for seven minutes without interaction, only requiring the player to click again whenever the star degrades a tier.

This method is fully available at level 60 Mining since the lowest star now falls at tier 6, but it can begin at level 10 Mining if the star is mined down to a suitable tier. The stardust can be exchanged for a celestial ring, which gives an invisible +4 boost to Mining. Considering the Grand Exchange price of soft clay, each stardust is worth when using the stardust to buy soft clay packs.

Experience and stardust rates are shown in the table below. The rates include the time spent finding a new star as well as some idle time whenever the star degrades a tier.

level
	XP/h	With	/h	XP/h	With	/h	XP/h	With	/h
60	23,500	24,100	733	24,900	25,500	777	N/A	N/A	N/A
70	24,600	25,200	769	26,100	26,700	814	26,800	27,500	839
80	25,900	26,600	811	27,500	28,100	858	28,300	29,000	884
90	27,000	27,700	844	28,600	29,300	893	29,500	30,200	920
99	28,200	28,900	881	29,800	30,600	933	30,800	31,500	961

Ore table

Name		Level	Experience
	Copper	1	200
	Tin	1	200
	Iron	15	290
	Coal	30	570
	Mithril ore	55	610
	Adamantite	70	1050
	Runite (Wilderness only)	85	4120