Mining

Mining UI

Mining is a gathering skill that allows players to obtain ore used in Smithing. Mining is also a source of Gems and Salt. Each mining location provides different possible loot, but gems and Geodes can be found in every location.

Uses

• Ore can be smelted into bars through Smithing
• Gems are used in Crafting and Augmenting
• Rune Slates are used in Runecrafting
• Geodes can be opened for a chance at ores, gems, additional geodes, or talismans
• Salt is used in Cooking
• Clay and Sand can be used to create Fertilizer
• Stone has no current use - it's classified as a "junk drop" for the purposes of the Destructive Testing enchantment

Mining Locations

There is currently a total of 8 Mining Locations available in the game:

Level	Name	EXP	GP	Base Time	Base XP per Hour	Possible Loot
1	Clay Pit	1-5	1-5	5.00 Seconds	1872
10	City Outskirts	1-15	1-20	8.00 Seconds	2048
20	Village	1-15	1-20	8.00 Seconds	4613
30	Desert	1-50	1-100	12.00 Seconds	5867
40	Underground	1-50	1-100	12.00 Seconds	7140
50	Hidden Mine	1-100	1-200	15.00 Seconds	10764
60	Volcano	1-100	1-200	15.00 Seconds	12840
70	Deep Pit [Dangerous]	10-150	15-500	20.00 Seconds	12068*
	Greater Demon (Deep Pit)	-	-	-	-

*Time spent in combat is not included.

The Deep Pit is a dangerous location. While mining there, a Greater Demon will occasionally spawn and attack the player. This fight cannot be escaped from, and losing to the Greater Demon will lock the player out of the location for 15 minutes. It is recommended that the player have 50+ in all combat stats and a minimum of at least Adamantite (Although Runite is highly recommended) before mining in Deep Pit.

Mining Speed

A player's mining speed for each location is determined based on the following formula:

${\Bigl (}{\frac {Base\;Time}{99+Player's\;Effective\;Mining\;Level}}{\Bigr )}*100*{\Bigl (}1-Haste\;\%{\Bigr )}$

Gathering Table

Ores

Drop Frequency

	Copper	Tin	Iron	Gold	Mithril	Addy	Runite	Clay	Stone	Sand	Silver	Coal	Slate	Stygian	Salt	Total
Clay Pit	20	20						40	10	10						100
City Outskirt	30	30	5					10	10	10		5				100
Village			50						25			25				100
Desert			9	5	20			3		20	20	10	9		10	106
Underground			5	25	20				5		15	5	15		10	100
Hidden Mine				10	10	35	5		10		20		10			100
Volcano				10	20	20	20				20		10			100
Deep Pit				25			50						25	10		110

Note that these numbers represent a frequency, that's why they sometimes add up to more than 100 in total.
To get percentage values, use the following formula: ${\Bigl (}{\frac {Frequency}{Total\;Frequency}}*100{\Bigr )}$. i.e. Clay in Desert: (3 / 106) * 100 = 2.83%

Average Drop Per Hour

These numbers represent the number of each item you get per hour at base time

	Copper	Tin	Iron	Gold	Mithril	Addy	Runite	Clay	Stone	Sand	Silver	Coal	Slate	Stygian	Salt
Clay Pit	144	144						288	72	72
City Outskirt	135	135	22.5					45	45	45		22.5
Village			225						112.5			112.5
Desert			25.47	14.15	56.6			8.49		56.6	56.6	28.3	25.47		28.3
Underground			15	75	60				15		45	15	45		30
Hidden Mine				24	24	84	12		24		48		24
Volcano				24	48	48	48				48		24
Deep Pit				40.91			81.82						40.91	16.36

Gems

Gems are rare rewards received while mining, chance of receiving a gem can be boosted with the Scroll of the Prospector. Gems are used in Crafting and as a material while Augmenting.

Several Monsters drop gems, including Lesser Demons and Deadly Red Spiders . Gems can also be found by opening Chests, using the Scroll of Refining enchantment while smithing or by using the Scroll of Root Digging while Foraging.

When mining, the chance to obtain a gem is based on the base timer of the area. When hunting gems, it therefore doesn't matter which area is used.

Item	GP	Distribution
Sapphire	1,000	40%
Emerald	2,000	30%
Ruby	5,000	20%
Diamond	10,000	7%
Black Opal	50,000	3%

Equipment

Equipment that can used to support mining outside of enchantments.

Item	Requirement	Source	Effect	Augmenting Bonus	Enchantment Slots
Bronze Pickaxe	-	Crafting	10 Mining Level	+0.5 Mining Level	1
Iron Pickaxe	10 Mining	Crafting	20 Mining Level	+1 Mining Level	2
Mithril Pickaxe	30 Mining	Crafting	30 Mining Level	+1.5 Mining Level	3
Adamantite Pickaxe	40 Mining	Crafting	40 Mining Level	+2 Mining Level	4
Runite Pickaxe	50 Mining	Crafting	50 Mining Level	+2.5 Mining Level	5
Stygian Pickaxe	60 Mining	Crafting	60 Mining Level	+3 Mining Level	6

Enchantments

List of useful Enchantments.

Scroll	Slot	Level	Silver Amount	Rune Amount	Runes	Effect per scroll
Scroll of Naturalist	Gloves, Boots	49	600	60	Air, Water, Nature, Cosmic	Increase your chance to gain chests as well as convert standard chests to their greater variants while gathering by 20%.
Scroll of Prolonging	Gloves, Boots	58	700	60	Nature, Mind	Gain a 20% chance to not consume a buff stack (resulting in 25% more uses from a buff on average).
Scroll of Enlightenment	Gloves, Boots	73	900	70	Air, Water, Chaos, Mind	Gain 1 more essence per action where essence is acquired.
Scroll of Gathering	Ring, Necklace	64	800	70	Earth, Fire, Water, Mind, Cosmic	Gain a 10% chance to find an extra resource while gathering. There is a 15% chance that a nature rune is consumed when it procs. Attempts to pull the rune from your stockpile then ammo pouch if none found.
Scroll of Wealth	Ring, Necklace	37	500	50	Nature, Mind, Cosmic	Automatically sells gathering and production items for 20% of their vendor price. Does not affect Crafting or stack with Scholar.
Scroll of the Scholar	Ring, Necklace	88	1300	110	Chaos, Mind, Cosmic	Increases experience gained from gathering and production by 20% but destroys the item in process. Does not affect Crafting or stack with Wealth. Only active for mastery experience, when a skill is at level 99.
Scroll of Haste	Ring, Necklace	94	2000	200	Air, Chaos, Mind, Cosmic	Increases non-combat action speed by 4%. Caps at halving action time. Stacks with Empowered Haste.
Scroll of Archaeology	Tacklebox, Fishing Set, Pickaxe, Hatchet, Mining Set, Foraging Set	41	500	50	Earth, Water, Nature	Gives access to a secondary drop table while gathering with rewards and chances heavily scaling on enchantment strength. The best finds are only found in the hardest to reach zones!
Scroll of Destructive Testing	Pickaxe, Mining Set	16	200	30	Earth, Fire, Chaos, Mind	Sand, Stone and Clay mined will be destroyed and provide 5 mining experience per piece. Scholar rolls first and does not stack.
Scroll of the Prospector	Pickaxe, Mining Set	25	300	40	Air, Fire, Cosmic	Increase your chance to find gems or silver while gathering by 50%. Has a 10% chance to consume an earth rune on success. Attempts to pull the rune from your stockpile then ammo pouch if none found.
Scroll of Supercooling	Pickaxe, Mining Set	75	900	80	Earth, Water, Cosmic	Items with lower heat costs to process have an increased chance to be gathered. Has a 1% chance to consume a water rune every mining action. Attempts to pull the rune from your stockpile then ammo pouch if none found.
Scroll of Superheating	Pickaxe, Mining Set	76	900	80	Earth, Fire, Cosmic	Items with higher heat costs to process have an increased chance to be gathered. Has a 1% chance to consume a fire rune every mining action. Attempts to pull the rune from your stockpile then ammo pouch if none found.
Scroll of Dwarven Engineering	Pickaxe, Mining Set	83	1000	90	Air, Nature, Mind	Gives a 0.20% chance to massively boost amount gathered.

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