F2P MINING 101
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Introduction
Welcome to Mining 101 by Matt469. This guide is dedicated to all you people who want to become hard core miners, but just don’t know how!!! Sit back, relax, and read my guide.
1- Requirements
To start mining 101, please make sure you have the following:
+ Level 15 Mining (Able to mine Iron)
+ A pickaxe
+ Some amount of money around 50k to buy PICKAXES as you go along
If you have these, you are ready to begin!
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2- The Beginnings (Level 15 – 30)
Start by heading off to DWARVEN MINES. Head to Falador and enter that way.
Once you go down the staircase, head west. You will see adamantite ore, keep heading west until you hit 3 iron ore in a banana shape ( . Make sure you have a high enough combat level to defeat king scorpions with ease, as they will often attack. You have an option here. You can either store the ore in your bank, and get money by selling or smelting later on, or you can powermine. If you are looking to make a business out of mining, store it in the bank.
Continue to mine, it will take until you have mined 313 ore, in other words, until you have made 12 trips to the bank.
Congratz! You have reached level 30 mining! Move onto the next section.
As recommended by Football Crazy:
What I would do here is to contunue to mine Copper until lvl 31. It’s faster and closer to a bank! =)
Plus if you want to make money buy then tin ore and smelt it or superheat.
Doing this would mean mining around Varrock, below the city, there is several tin ore. To mine copper:
Go to Varrock, and continue to mine.
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3- On Your Way (Level 31 – 40)
Before you continue, buy yourself a new pick.
After you have done that, head to Al-Kharid, and enter the mine.
Mine silver ore, and keep mining, storing it in your bank, and gaining up the levels.
It will take you 22 trips to get to level 40, which isn’t alot of work.
Congratz! You are now an average miner, which can mine gold!
EUREKA!
Advice by Football Crazy:
Silver is long as heck to mine. And banking it is too far away. At this point I would mine iron if YOUR’E A MEMBER at Yanalle mines. It’s closer to a bank and nobody is ever there. If not continue mining copper, trust me it is fast.
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4- Becoming A Pro (Level 41 – 50)
Buy yourself a new pick again (Rune). You will now mine coal. From now, it is smooth sailing. Mine where you like, you should have a fair understanding of which mine to use. I would recommend going to Lumbridge Swamps.
46 inventories later, you have reached level 50!
Congratz! Level 50 is good, but you want more. Continue to endure, because it WILL be worth it.
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5- Becoming A Legend (Level 51 – 85)
At this level it would take forever to reach 85 with gold. Plus it’s a fair walk if you’re not a member and can’t use the shortcut into Falador. Try mining coal, or mithril ore at the Lumbridge Swamps again.
2248 trips of Coal, or (once you have reached level 55) 1381 trips of Mithril Ore and 40 trips of coal (before 55) until level 85.
Congratz! You are now ranked a Legend in my standards
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6- The Best Of The Best (Level 85+)
My, you have endured, yes? These next levels take alot of hard work, but you are becoming the best.
I would think you would have a high enough combat level to live in the wilderness, surely. If not, train your combat to level 60 or so.
Because we will now be mining Runite. Go to the wilderness for it.
Statistics:
+ 3676 Inventories Of Adamantite Ore To Level 99
+ 2910 Inventories Of Runite Ore To Level 99
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Conclusion
Wow, you have done it. Congratlations. Level 99. Good luck, and keep mining!
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Special Thanks To:
+ Asian Rapini- Template
+ Runehq.com – Calculators
+ Football Crazy & Droid3k4 & Jamesvernon – For Great Advice And Helping Me Perfect My Guide
+ KMilliron – Changing the BBCodes without me even asking
+ Jagex – For creating Runescape
+ You – For Reading My Guide
Thankyou
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Pricing
The ores are currently selling at the Grand Exchange:
TIN ORE:
Current market price range:
Minimum price: 26 Market price: 27 Maximum price: 28
COPPER ORE:
Current market price range:
Minimum price: 65 Market price: 68 Maximum price: 71
IRON ORE:
Current market price range:
Minimum price: 95 Market price: 100 Maximum price: 105
SILVER ORE:
Current market price range:
Minimum price: 159 Market price: 167 Maximum price: 175
COAL:
Current market price range:
Minimum price: 169 Market price: 177 Maximum price: 185
GOLD ORE:
Current market price range:
Minimum price: 506 Market price: 532 Maximum price: 558
MITHRIL ORE:
Current market price range:
Minimum price: 313 Market price: 329 Maximum price: 345
ADAMANTITE ORE:
Current market price range:
Minimum price: 1,081 Market price: 1,137 Maximum price: 1,193
RUNITE ORE:
Current market price range:
Minimum price: 16.8k Market price: 17.7k Maximum price: 18.6k
Source: Runescape.Com
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Glossary
Pickaxe – A tool used to mine ore
Dwarven Mines – A mine found in Falador. Dwarves live there.
Tin Ore – The basic ore. Smelt with copper to make a bronze ore.
Copper Ore – The second most basic ore. Smelt with tin to make a bronze bar.
Iron Ore – Smelt with coal to make a steel bar, and smelt on its own to have a 50% chance of making an iron bar.
Silver Ore – Smelt with itself to make a silver bar which is then used for crafting.
Coal – A vital ore. Smelt with alot of ores to make different bars
Gold Ore – Smelt to make a gold bar – used often in crafting
Mithril Ore – Smelt with coal to make a mithril bar. Fairly good armour once smelted and used with an anvil.
Adamantite Ore – The second greatest ore. Used to smelt with coal to make adamantite bars. Used alot in armour.
Runite Ore – The Best ore. Requires 85 mining, yet is the best armour for free-to-players.
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Random Events
+ The Head falls off the pickaxe:
Simply find the head on the ground nearby, and reattach.
+ Exploding Rock:
The rock explodes dealing up to 10. Your pickaxe will be broken and you will need to see Numrof in the Dwarven mines and pay a fee to have your pickaxe repaired.
+ Rock Golem:
You wake a angry sleeping rock monster
If you are between levels _ and _…. The Rock Golem is…..
Level 3-10 … Level 14
Level 11-20 … Level 29
Level 21-40 … Level 49
Level 41-60 … Level 79
Level 61-90 … Level 120
Level 91 and beyond … Level 159
Matt
I will edit this guide every soon.
no sweat, i’ll do it for you ^_^
Done!
Thanks Ryan, I don’t know HTML so that really helped.
I have a bit of a thankyou for you two guys. Well, two thankyous (check PM’s)
Matt
I’ll take me off the credits. x) And put ryan
i got 2 ask somethin how do i get to lvl 85 mining from lvl 57 and how do i get to 99 after that i dont want to go into the wild and die while mining runeite
omg this helped so much i got to lvl 52 mining in just 1 day ty for posting this!!!!!!!!
umm when it says like 2706 trips to 99 mineing does it mean like 2706 trips of addy ore does it mean 2706 addy ore???
this is a very good guide…
mathew burnssaid:
umm when it says like 2706 trips to 99 mineing does is mean like 2706 trips of addy does it mean 2706 addy ore???
I said:
It means 2706 inventories of addy ore
I hoped i helped
This post really helped me settle an argument with a friend. thanks
i dont usually comment, but after reading through so much info i had to say thanks
mathew…it means 2706 x 28 ores
make money by alching or merching
how long does this take?
this is good guide. But as im pretty lazy, i made my way to 60 lvl mining, and then i got bored. So if you are very lazy or get bored easy, you really shouldn’t try to get your mining to 99… except in shorter sections, like 50k xp in week is good for lazy ones
im 78 mining what do i mine to 85?
I was wonder why you would mine coal at Lumbridge, when it’s a lot easier at Dwarven Mines and in the Mining Guild? I can understand mining there when you’re under level 60 mining but not when you can go in the guild and mine coal faster….other than that i love F2P Mining 101!
mining is a good way to make money and this is a good guide
its pissing off as f2p. im mining 38 and coal and silver r hogged by all