Granite rock

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Granite rock
Release	23 January 2006 (Update)
Members	Yes
Quest	Enakhra's Lament
Location	Desert Quarry
Actions	Mine, Prospect, Examine
Examine	This rock is made of granite.
Advanced data
Object ID	? (edit)
Links	MROD
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Granite rocks are a type of rock found in the quarry south of the Bandit Camp in the Kharidian Desert. As the quarry is in the desert, desert heat will continually reduce the player's Life Points unless the player has waterskins in inventory, is wearing an Enchanted water tiara or has completed Crocodile Tears. Prior to January 2007, no water was required in the quarry. Granite is mainly used for Granite Lobster pouches. There are three types of Granite, 500g, 2 kg, and 5 kg, all rising in price respectively. Using a chisel, granite can be chiselled into smaller chunks, relative to their size, so you'll get ten 500g pieces of granite with one 5 kg piece. This can be a slow, but effective way of making money. Currently, if you chisel a 5 kg rock into 500g rocks, you will gain 6,083, per 5 kg rock.

Locations

Mine	Members	Amount	Requirements
Desert Quarry		15	N/A

Types of granite

A player must have Mining level of 45 or greater to mine granite, which randomly yields one of the following sizes of granite block:

	Size	Examine text	Exchange Price
	500g	A tiny chunk of granite.	1,380
	2 kg	A small chunk of granite.	3,052
	5 kg	A medium-sized chunk of granite.	7,717

Mining granite

Granite rock
Mining level	45
Output	Granite (5kg) Granite (2kg) Granite (500g)
Core
Rock stats
Durability	400
Hardness	50
Multiplier	0.74
Base ore	1

There is 33% chance to obtain 500g, 33% chance to obtain 2 kg, and 34% chance to obtain 5 kg granite. This means, if one was to cut the granite to its smallest form, one would receive on average, 5.72 granite (500g) each successful mining action.

When granite is mined, the player randomly receives one of the three sizes of granite blocks. When wearing Varrock armour and the armour effect activates, the size of the second block of granite will be the same as the first block. While you are able to get a Critical hit, Granite rocks will not spawn rockertunity multipliers.

There is no way that the player can influence which block size is mined. However, by using a chisel, the player can carve the larger blocks into 500g ones: four 500g blocks from 2 kg, and ten from 5 kg (first by cutting the 5 kg block into two 2 kg and two 500g blocks, and then cutting the 2 kg blocks). 500g blocks are occasionally in great demand because it is as a tertiary component for infusing Summoning pouches, so mining granite, keeping and banking only the 5 kg blocks, and later chiselling them down to 500g can yield many of these small blocks fairly quickly.

Before the mining update of 9 September 2008, larger blocks could not be chiselled into 500g blocks. Jagex adjusted the price of 2 kg and 5 kg blocks from their former prices of 4 and 10 coins to over 4,000 and 10,000 coins, to be in line with the price of 500g granite. Prices have dropped since the update

Loot

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price	High Alch
	Granite (500g)	1	1/3	1,380	1
	Granite (2kg)	1	1/3	3,052	1
	Granite (5kg)	1	1/3	7,717	1

Graphical updates

Granite rocks were updated along with other Mining rocks in April 2011. They were updated again with the release of Mining and Smithing rework in January 2019.

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  Granite rock after 23 January 2006 (update)

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  Granite rock after 19 April 2011 (update)

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  Granite rock after 7 January 2019 (update)

Update history

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• update 7 January 2019 (Update):
  • Granite rocks have been graphically updated.

• update 19 April 2011 (Update):
  • Granite rocks have been graphically updated.

• update 23 January 2006 (Update):
  • Added to game.