Notice that all money-making methods in this table are available for both non-members and members.
Mining is a fast money making method used among lower level players as a way to make money. More experienced players will find that mining can be slow but still extremely profitable at high levels. It is also useful to have some kind of run refreshing device for quick access to banks. For all mining occupations, you make money quicker the higher your Mining level, as you mine the ores faster.
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| ***** 46,000 |
Level 1 | Mining rune essence You can mine rune essence and sell it for around 60 coins each (sometimes you need to drop the price a little bit to get it to sell in the Grand Exchange). Essences mine quickly; it usually takes less than a minute to fill an inventory, and then another minute or so is needed to get the mined essence to a bank and return to the mine for another load. For fast banking it is recommended that you use Aubury in Varrock to get to the essence mines and deposit each load of runes in the bank which is just north of his shop.It is also highly recommended that you wield your pickaxe and nothing else to increase your run time. |
Rune Mysteries completed. | |
| ***** 72,000 |
Level 1 | Mining clay In the West Varrock Mine, in the Dwarven Mine, or near the Crafting Guild, you can mine clay, which sells for 160 coins each. |
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Crafting level of 40 to enter the Crafting Guild (optional) |
| ***** 76,000 |
Level 15 | Mining iron Iron ore sells for 206 coins, and is very quick to mine. The West Varrock Mine is best due to its proximity to a bank, but the East Varrock Mine and the Dwarven Mines are also popular. |
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| ***** 32,000 |
Level 20 | Mining silver Silver ore sells for 286 coins each, and is found in accessible locations. The best is the West Varrock Mine due to its proximity to a bank, but the Al Kharid mine is also available. Unfortunately, silver ore rocks only respawn every 2 minutes, which means a lot of time standing around waiting for the ore to become available for mining, which greatly reduces the profit per hour. |
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| ***** 45,000 |
Level 20 | Mining silver (crafting guild) There are twice as many silver rocks at the crafting guild as at the West Varrock Mine or Al Kharid mine, meaning the mining goes quicker, but its distance from a bank means the final profit is reduced. |
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Crafting level 40 |
| ***** 43,000 |
Level 30 | Mining coal At this level you can mine coal and sell it for 269 coins each. However, mining coal is a slow process until much higher mining levels are reached (50+). The most profitable is to mine at the Lumbridge Swamp south-west mine and use an explorer's ring 3 to teleport to the cabbage field south of Falador both for trips to the bank and for the final trip to the Grand Exchange. Mining at the Lumbridge Swamp south-west mine without an explorer's ring 3 generates 38,000 coins/hour; mining in the Barbarian Village and banking at Edgeville generates 35,000 coins/hour. |
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Explorer's ring 3 (optional) |
| ***** 18,000 |
Level 40 | Mining gold You can mine gold ore in the Dwarven Mines, the Rimmington Mine, or in the Al-Kharid mine (each mine has 2 gold rocks). Gold ore sells for 313 coins each. However, this method is not very effective because of the slow respawn rate of gold (approx. 2 minutes). |
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| ***** 29,000 |
Level 40 | Mining gold (Karamja/Crandor) Although Crandor island and the Karamja volcano would seem to be poor locations due to their distance from a bank, the slow respawn rate of gold means that mining in these locations is relatively profitable since there are more rocks (4 in each location). The recommended method is:
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30 gold (for the boat); must have reached Crandor island on the Dragon slayer quest. | |
| ***** | Level 40 | Mining gold (crafting guild) Mining at the Crafting Guild is the best because it has seven rocks, so mining goes quicker. |
Crafting level 40 | |
| ***** | Level 55 | Mining mithril Mithril ore sells for 287 coins each, but supply is very limited for non-members. The Mining Guild contains 5 mithril rocks (but requires 60 Mining), and mining from mithril rocks in the Wilderness or Lumbridge Swamp is also possible. There are 3 mithril rocks at the Al Kharid mining area, and there is also mithril on Crandor, although the distance and the presence of aggressive monsters does not make it a convenient place to mine. |
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| ***** | Level 60 | Mining coal (Mining Guild) Once you can enter the Mining Guild, coal mining speeds up noticeably as there are many coal rocks inside the Guild and the Guild is very close to the eastern bank in Falador. |
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| ***** | Level 70 | Mining adamantite Adamantite ore sells for 1,187 each and can be found in the Hobgoblin Mine (level 34-37 Wilderness), the west Lumbridge Swamp mines, Al Kharid, Crandor and the Edgeville Dungeon. If you mine in the Wilderness mine, also note that it is a common place at which to find revenants. Do not pass through the Bandit Camp on your way to or from the mine. |
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| ***** 350000 - 500000 |
Level 85 | Mining runite Runite ore is the most expensive ore in the game, at 17,228 coins each. It is only found in a few locations, including a few rocks in deep Wilderness. This is the only runite location available to free players. The amount of time it takes runite to respawn is dependant on world population; it will spawn quicker on more-populated worlds. Most players who mine runite tend to switch worlds rather than wait for the ore to respawn. It is recommended not to hop to busy servers, as the rocks may be mined already. Also, turning Private chat off is effective, so that friends won't be bothered by the spamming messages of the world switches. |
Timing assumptions (assuming you use no more than 25 energy points)
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