Tools

When you become a skilled miner you will be able to mine increasingly difficult ores, this makes the process of extracting the ore from the rock take longer. The amount of time taken can be reduced by using a good quality pickaxe, so when mining make sure that you use the highest level pickaxe that you can.

Different pickaxes you can use to extract ore from rocks are shown in the table below. You can obtain these different pickaxes by buying them from Nurmof the dwarf in the Dwarven Mines.

Pickaxe	Level Required
Bronze	1
Iron	1
Steel	6
Mithril	21
Adamant	31
Rune	41

The mining level required, ONLY applies when you wish to use the pickaxe as a tool to mine rocks. If you do not have the required mining level, you may still wield the pickaxe as a weapon (provided you have the necessary attack level to do so). However, you cannot use it to mine rocks. For example, if you have a mining level of 30 and you obtain a rune pickaxe (which needs a Level 41 mining to be used), you may still use it to attack monsters, but if you try and mine coal ore with it you will not be able to use it.