Mining

Mining is a skill that allows players to obtain ores and gems from rocks. The higher a player's Mining level is the more likely they are to successfully extract ore. With ores, a player can then either smelt bars and make equipment using the Smithing skill or sell them for profit.

Useful things and info

• The excavation silver relic offers a 5% chance to give double ores when mining, and creatures in the Living Rock Caverns will no longer be aggressive
  • This is very useful once the player is mining concentrated coal and gold deposits
• All ores have a greatly increased re-spawn timer, no waiting 12 minutes for a runite ore to come back
• The golden mining set, obtained from Lava Flow Mine, will provide a 1% XP boost per piece, and 6% xp boost while the full set is worn
• The infernal pickaxe can be made by combining a smouldering stone with a dragon pickaxe
  • The infernal pickaxe has a 1/3 chance of instantly destroying the ore you mined, and giving you the smithing XP for that ore (no coal required)
• The endless harvest gold relic can be used most effectively when mining concentrated coal and gold deposits, this will allow the player to mine without having to bank or drops ores
• A coal bag (purchased from the Dungeoneering rewards shop, or web store) can be useful when mining concentrated coal, if you're not dropping the ore

Training

Shooting Stars

• Shooting Stars are the best mining XP at any level, are AFK to mine, and provide the player with stardust (Donators get bonus dust)
  • Shooting stars will not appear in any of the other methods below since they are mentioned here, but are limited time random events (there is no cap on stars you can mine per day, or stardust you can hand in)
• Stars require their size*10 mining level to mine, and as they are mined, they go down in tier
  • If a size 9 star lands, it requires level 90 mining to mine it, once it has been mined through that layer, it will then require 80 mining, and so on
  • Star dust can be traded in at the end of the star for rewards, 200 dust is one loot roll
    • You will always get: 150k, 150 astral runes, and 150 cosmic runes
    • Other loot rolls inclue: all ores, and all uncut gems, with a small chance of getting an uncut onyx
• You can easily get to the star with ;;star, and it will also display the time until the next one if there is no current star

Levels 1-68

• From level 1 to 15 you can mine copper and tin
• Level 15 to 30/35/45/68 mine iron
  • Iron power mining is an effective way of training mining
  • When you want to stop mining iron you can go to:
    • Coal at 30
    • Sandstone at 35
    • Granite at 45
    • Lava flow mine at 68

Levels 68-77+

• The lava flow mine is a minigame where players are mining away the crust from lava pools
• This minigame is extremely AFK, good XP/hr and awards the player with the golden mining set
• The XP/hr here is slightly less than concentrated deposits, but is more AFK

Levels 77+

• Concentrated ore deposits can be found in the Living Rock Caverns
  • The concentrated coal deposits require 77 mining, and the concentrated gold deposits require 80 mining
• Players should have the excavation silver relic here to avoid getting hit by the NPCs
• If you want the max XP/hr you will need to empty your inventory with ;;e
• If you want to keep your ores, either use the endless harvest relic, which will automatically double the ores and bank them, or teleport home to bank, and teleport back with the Nexus