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Contents
- Introducing The Mining Skill
Basic information - Pickaxes
How to obtain, with other little information included - Ores
Type of ores, level requirements, experience rates - Mining Sites
Locations of where to train Mining - The Pure Essence Mine
How to obtain pure essence - Extra Features
Features that come with the Mining skill; bonus skill, experience boosts, pet - Mining HiScores / Statistics
Additional information - Mining Mastery
After achieving level 99 - Experience Table
Introducing The Mining Skill
Mining is a very useful, but tedious skill. It allows you to extract ores, pure essence, gems, and other auxiliary resources from rocks located in mines throughout Alora - the main one being the Dwarven Mine. Extracted ores can be smelted into bars and then utilizing the Smithing skill, can be habituated to create weapons, armour and other auxiliary items.
A player gains Mining experience by extracting these ores from their rocks, and as a player's Mining level increases, this allows them to wield better pickaxes, and mine increasingly arduous ores (such as adamantite and runite) that sell for sizably voluminous amounts of coins in the Trading Post. This makes Mining a great money-making skill for those who have the patience and assiduousness to reach those higher levels.
Pickaxes
A pickaxe is critical for Mining, because without it you can't mine! Depending on the player's Mining level, this affects the type of pickaxe they can mine with, with the higher leveled pickaxes being more efficacious at Mining, as well as a weapon in their own right. Pickaxes can be bought from Bob, who is located at ::Shops/Edgeville General Store. The highest tiered pickaxe - dragon, is not in Bob's Store, however, it can be bought from other players and from the Trading Post, inside Edgeville bank.
Iron Pickaxe
Mining Level Required: 1 Wielding Level Required (Attack): 1
Price In Bob's Store: 245 coins.
Mithril Pickaxe
Mining Level Required: 21 Wielding Level Required (Attack): 20
Price In Bob's Store: 2,275 coins.
Adamant Pickaxe
Mining Level Required: 31 Wielding Level Required (Attack): 30
Price In Bob's Store: 5,600 coins.
Rune Pickaxe
Mining Level Required: 41 Wielding Level Required (Attack): 40
Price In Bob's Store: 56,000 coins.
Dragon Pickaxe
Mining Level Required: 61 Wielding Level Required (Attack): 60
Infernal Pickaxe
Mining Level Required: 61 Wielding Level Required (Attack): 60
Additional Information: The infernal pickaxe is created by using a smouldering stone on a dragon pickaxe. It requires level 85 Smithing to create. Mining rocks with the infernal pickaxe will give a 1/3 chance for the ore to be smelted as it is mined. This will consume the ore and will grant some Smithing experienced based on the amount that would usually be gained when creating a bar from the ore.
Crystal Pickaxe
Mining Level Required: 71 Wielding Level Required: 70 attack and 50 agility
Ores
There are many different types of extractable ores throughout Alora, with each one requiring a specific Mining level in order to mine it. Experience is given by successfully extracting an ore from its rock, with the higher leveled ores giving higher experience per ore extracted.
Pure Essence
Mining Level Required: 1
Experience Gained:
: 200 | Post-99: 97.5, x 28 = 75
: 40
: 25
: 20 | 
: 35
Additional Information: Used in Runecrafting to make runes.
Copper Ore and 
Tin Ore
Mining Level Required: 1
Experience Gained:
: 700 | Post-99: 262.5
: 140
: 87.5
: 70 | : 122.5
Additional Information: Used to make bronze bars for Smithing.
Iron Ore
Mining Level Required: 15
Experience Gained:
: 1,400 | Post-99: 525
: 280
: 175
: 140 | : 245
Additional Information: Used to make iron and steel bars for Smithing.
Silver Ore
Mining Level Required: 20
Experience Gained:
: 1,600 | Post-99: 600
: 320
: 200
: 160 | : 280
Additional Information: Used in the Crafting skill.
Coal Ore
Mining Level Required: 30
Experience Gained:
: 2,000 | Post-99: 750
: 400
: 250
: 200 | : 350
Additional Information: Used in the Smithing skill, utilized in making bars from steel to rune.
Gold Ore
Mining Level Required: 40
Experience Gained:
: 2,600 | Post-99: 975
: 520
: 325
: 260 | : 455
Additional Information: Used in the Crafting skill.
Gem Rock
Mining Level Required: 40
Additional Information: Super Donator feature. Used in the Crafting skill.
Mithril Ore
Mining Level Required: 55
Experience Gained:
: 3,200 | Post-99: 1,200
: 640
: 400
: 320 | : 560
Additional Information: Used to make mithril bars for Smithing.
Adamantite Ore
Mining Level Required: 70
Experience Gained:
: 3,800 | Post-99: 1,425
: 760
: 475
: 380 | : 665
Additional Information: Used to make adamant bars for Smithing.
Runite Ore
Mining Level Required: 85
Experience Gained:
: 5,000 | Post-99: 1,875
: 1,000
: 625
: 500 | : 875
Additional Information: Used to make rune bars for Smithing.
Amethyst Ore
Mining Level Required: 92 (88 with Celestial Ring)
: 9,600 | Post-99: 3600
: 1,920
: 1200
: 960 | : 1440
Additional Information: Used to chisel into fletch-able amethyst ammunition.
Mining Sites
There are plenty of mines located throughout Alora, with certain ones being preferred over others due to certain factors, such as the ores available and the mine's distance from a bank. Here are the best Mining sites:
The Drawven Mine (Falador Mine)
Low levelled rocks, such as copper, clay and tin rocks are all located south of the main entrance.
The higher level rocks, such as coal, gold, mithril, and adamantite rocks are near the Mining Guild. 2 gold rocks are located to the East of the Mining Guild. 5 coal rocks may be found there also. A bit to the North-West, there are 3 adamantite rocks, 2 mithril rocks, 3 iron rocks, and 3 coal rocks. To the East, there is the Falador entrance. Further North, there are iron, tin, copper and 3 coal rocks.
The very South of The Dwarven Mine is the Mining Guild. You can find 2 runite rocks if you turn East soon as entering the Mining Guild. There is also a bank chest on the far West and behind it is where you can find one of the two amethyst mines.
The Wilderness Resource Area
The Wilderness Resource Area is a small enclosure located East of the Deserted Keep. An entrance fee of 10,000 coins is required to enter inside.
The Wilderness Resource Area contains various of rocks for Mining, as well as an NPC, Piles, who will note items obtained within the area. The Wilderness Resource Area contains the following rocks: 6 iron, 11 coal, 4 gold, 1 mithril, and 6 adamantite.
Note: Players will be granted 1.5x experience for training skills above level 25 Wilderness. You must be in the Wilderness, above level 25, for two minutes for this to activate.
Donator Zone - 1 and 2
Super Donator Zone - Gem Rocks
The Pure Essence Mine
Check out my Runecrafting Here for more information regarding the Pure Essence Mine, as well as the Runecrafting skill.
Extra Features
Skill of The Day
Transmuting every day, the Skill of The Day grants an experience boost of 25% ecumenically in a designated skill. Check out Unknown's Bonus Skill Schedule guide Here.
Well of Goodwill
The Well Of Goodwill is an object in the game that, when filled, grants a global experience boost of 30% to everyone but those on the Classic and Hardcore/Elite/Group Iron Man game mode, which get half - 15%.
Vote Book
Obtained through voting, redeeming this book grants you 50% experience boost for an hour, if you have Two-Factor Authentication activated on the specific account.
Wilderness Bonus Experience
Players will be granted 1.5x experience for training skills above level 25 Wilderness. You must be in the Wilderness, above level 25, for two minutes for this to activate.
Varrock Armour 4
Wearing the Varrock armour 4 will give you a 10% chance to mine/smelt double ore. This can be bought from the Achievement Store for 150 Achievement Points.
Mining Skill Pet / Rock Golem
The Rock Golem is a skilling pet that can be obtained while training Mining. The chances of getting it are dependent on the player's Mining level, and the time it takes to accumulate a resource.
Donator Benefits
Donators have a 1/4 chance of receiving an extra ore - noted.
Mining HiScores / Statistics
As of 01/03/2019, there are currently...
6,253 players who have achieved level 99 in Mining. 10 of them having achieved maxed experience in the skill - 200,000,000. Shout outs:
1,039 Iron Men who have achieved level 99 in Mining. 4 of them having achieved maxed experience in the skill - 200,000,000. Shout outs: Hex,
86 Ultimate Iron Men who have achieved level 99 in Mining. 2 of them having achieved maxed experience in the skill - 200,000,000. Shout outs: Nacyto and Diseased.
11 Hardcore Iron Men who have achieved level 99 in Mining.
44 Classics who have achieved level 99 in Mining.
40 Elite Iron Men who have achieved level 99 in Mining.
Mining Mastery
When you have reached level 99 in the Mining skill, you can purchase the Mining skill cape and hood for 100,000 coins from the Wise Old Man, who is located in the small house North-West of Edgeville.
Experience Table
