Mining iron ore

Mining iron ore

Requirements
Skills
10 (50 for Rune pickaxe) 15 25
Items
Varrock armour 1 or better Iron stone spirits
Quest
None
Other
None
Results
Profit	Experience gained
669,671	48,960
Inputs (44,979)	Outputs (714,650)
957 x Iron stone spirit (44,979)	1,914 x Iron ore (692,868) 62.17 x Spirit shards (1,430) 24.06 x Uncut opal (2,334) 15.6 x Uncut jade (4,493) 9.17 x Uncut red topaz (3,146) 5.72 x Uncut sapphire (1,807) 3.22 x Uncut emerald (2,171) 1.91 x Uncut ruby (2,083) 1.79 x Uncut diamond (4,320)

Mining iron ore can be done in many places but one of the best in the dwarven mines underneath Falador. It's recommended to have at least 15 dungeonering as this allows you to enter the mysterious entrance close by where you will find a bank deposit box nearby. This will drastically decrease the time it takes to bank. The output is calculated having full stamina at all times. It should be noted that you will be getting iron ores and sedimentary geodes while mining. The geodes can later be opened to retrieve spirit shards and different gems. The player should use the best pickaxe possible as it will grant more ores per hour. Here you find a table over estimated profit per hour with different mining levels and pickaxes. Using Iron stone spirit will cut the time you spend mining in half and are most likely worth it you can see it being used in the bottom column.

Mining Level	Pickaxe	Total time per run (sec)	Ore (hour)	Sedimentary geode (hour)	Profit (hour)	Experience (hour)	Using iron stone spirit
10	Iron Pickaxe	331	294	29	111,642	10200	No
20	Steel Pickaxe	168	579	58	220,350	20400	No
30	Mitrhil Pickaxe	118	820	82	311,938	30600	No
40	Adamant Pickaxe	94	1035	104	393,762	40800	No
50	Rune Pickaxe	82	1192	119	453,199	48960	No
50	Rune Pickaxe	51	1914	96	665,392	48960	Yes

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