Mining/Training

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This article is about training the Mining skill. For the skill itself, see Mining.

Mining is used to obtain ores and gems. To start Mining no requirements are needed.

Pickaxes

Upgrading your pickaxe should be the priority when training Mining. You can buy them at the Shop.

Boosts

There are several items you can use to increase the Mining XP gain:

Name	Boost
Ancient Ring of Skills	+8% XP in any non-combat skill.
Ko	Up to +15% Mining XP and up to 15% chance to do zero damage to a Mining node.
Firemaking Skillcape	+5% XP in any skill.
Pyro	+1% XP in any skill.
Cool Rock	+5 Max HP to all Mining nodes.
Perfect Swing Potion IV	Up to 80% chance to deal no damage to a Mining node per charge.
Book of Scholars	+3% XP in any skill.
Miner's Helmet	+3% chance to do no damage to a Mining node, +2% Mastery XP.
Mole	+3% chance to get an additional ore or rune essence when mining. When using the Bear synergy, all mining nodes gain +20 Max HP.
Master of Nature	Shortens Mining and Woodcutting action intervals by 15%

Equipment

Rings:

Ring	Boost
File:Aorpheats Signet Ring (item).png Aorpheats Signet Ring	more ores
Ancient Ring of Skills	more XP
Ancient Ring of Mastery	more Mastery

Clue Chasers Insignia can be worn to increase the chances of mastery tokens and gem drops.

Mining offers two gloves that can be purchased from the Shop:

Gloves	Price	Boost
Gem Gloves	500,000	Guaranteed gem drops with every mining action, aside from Rune Essence. Gives a small profit if you sell gems. A viable starting money-making strategy for Adventure.
Mining Gloves	75,000	Increases the base mined quantity to 2 for ores and to 4 for Rune Essence. The gains can then be doubled by again by other means such as mastery.

Preparation

Throughout the whole leveling process, it is recommended to have Gem Gloves on you with charges. It will provide a stream of gems that you can sell for profit.
Keep Emeralds for Emerald Bolts and Diamonds for Diamond Luck potions.

If you don't have money to buy Gem Gloves, either sell Mithril Ore, smelt and sell Gold Bars, or get money through the Fishing money-making method.

It is also recommended to use any Mastery Pool experience to increase the Mastery level of nodes that you're about to mine to level 30. The Mastery level of a node increases the Rock HP, greatly reducing the waiting time for the note to respawn because the nodes will have increasingly larger respawn times the higher you level. Later, it is more beneficial to save the pool experience for the Mastery pool checkpoint bonuses.

Training

Level 1-15: Mine either Tin Ore or Copper Ore. Ideally in equal amounts so you later smelt Bronze Bars from them.

Level 15-30: Iron Ore.

Level 30-50: Coal Ore. Don't sell it because you will need a lot of it for Smithing.

Level 50-70: Mithril Ore.

Level 70-80: Adamantite Ore.

Level 80-99: Runite Ore.

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