Tip of the Day
The base chance to find most Chests is 1/250, which you can increase with better gear and tools.
Mining
Make your way over mountains and through caves to dig out precious ores and gemstones.

The Mining skill allows you to extract ores and gems. Ores can be processed into bars with the Smithing skill. With higher Mining levels, you'll have access to more ores, better pickaxes, and special skilling equipment that can boost your mining efficiency. You can also receive Mining Chests as a rare drop from training this skill.
Activities
The following activities can be done indefinitely without needing materials. Some have equipment requirements or other requirements that need to be satisfied in order to start the activity.
For activities involving two skills, the player is only eligible to earn chests in skills that have actual level requirements.
So, if the activity has a Mining level requirement, it will be eligible to drop Mining Chests.
When performing an activity for a skill, only the primary skill is factored in for the player's equipment bonuses, the "2nd Skill" will also be affected by the equipment attributes based toward the "1st Skill" (IE: +1 Exp will apply to the "2nd Skill" as well).
The following activities are eligible to drop Mining Chests.
Activity | Location(s) | Region(s) | Skill(s) | Base Exp |
Base Steps |
Base Exp/Step |
Base Total Exp/Step |
Min Steps (Max Efficiency) |
Max Exp/Step |
Total Max Exp/Step |
Requirement(s) | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mine Copper Ore | Frostbite Mountain | Mining lvl 1 | 12 | 50 | 0.240 | 0.240 | 34 (+50%) |
0.353 | 0.353 | |||
Stone Quarrying | Sanguine Hills | Mining lvl 1 | 8 | 39 | 0.205 | 0.205 | 25 (+60%) |
0.320 | 0.320 | |||
Surface Copper Mining | Pit of Pittance | Mining lvl 1 | 12 | 55 | 0.218 | 0.218 | 37 (+50%) |
0.324 | 0.324 | |||
Surface Salt Mining | Pit of Pittance | Mining lvl 1 | 12 | 55 | 0.218 | 0.218 | 37 (+50%) |
0.324 | 0.324 | |||
Mine Tin Ore | Frostbite Mountain | Mining lvl 10 | 22 | 65 | 0.338 | 0.338 | 41 (+60%) |
0.537 | 0.537 | |||
Surface Tin Mining | Pit of Pittance | Mining lvl 10 | 22 | 70 | 0.314 | 0.314 | 44 (+60%) |
0.500 | 0.500 | |||
Gold Panning | Norsack Plains | Mining lvl 15 | 20 | 70 | 0.286 | 0.457 | 44 (+60%) |
0.455 | 0.728 | |||
Fishing lvl 5 | 12 | 0.171 | 0.273 | |||||||||
Mine Iron Ore | Frostbite Mountain | Mining lvl 20 | 29 | 60 | 0.483 | 0.483 | 38 (+60%) |
0.763 | 0.763 | |||
Mine Coal | Frostbite Mountain Sanguine Hills |
Mining lvl 30 | 48 | 80 | 0.600 | 0.600 | 45 (+80%) |
1.067 | 1.067 | |||
Fossil Mining | Darktide Trench | Mining lvl 35 | 375 | 500 | 0.750 | 0.750 | 358 (+40%) |
1.047 | 1.047 | 3 Unique | ||
Mine Tarsilium Ore | Sanguine Hills | Mining lvl 40 | 58 | 90 | 0.644 | 0.644 | 48 (+90%) |
1.208 | 1.208 | |||
Mine Tarsilium Ore (Underwater) | Underwater Cave | Mining lvl 40 | 58 | 86 | 0.674 | 0.674 | 46 (+90%) |
1.261 | 1.261 | 3 Unique | ||
Underwater Aqueduct Digging | Bog Bottom | Mining lvl 40 | 90 | 100 | 0.900 | 0.900 | 53 (+90%) |
1.698 | 1.698 | 2 Unique 3 Unique | ||
Mine Volcanic Rock | Underwater Cave | Mining lvl 45 | 120 | 125 | 0.960 | 0.960 | 66 (+90%) |
1.818 | 1.818 | 3 Unique | ||
Explore Bog Bottom | Bog Bottom | Mining lvl 50 | 600 | 2500 | 0.240 | 0.240 | 1250 (+100%) |
0.480 | 0.480 | Have the 2 Unique 3 Unique | ||
Explore Underwater Cave | Underwater Cave | Mining lvl 50 | 600 | 2500 | 0.240 | 0.240 | 1250 (+100%) |
0.480 | 0.480 | Have the 2 Unique 3 Unique | ||
Mine Farganite Ore | Black Eye Peak | Mining lvl 50 | 78 | 105 | 0.743 | 0.743 | 53 (+100%) |
1.472 | 1.472 | |||
Spelunking | Black Eye Peak | Mining lvl 50 | 232 | 375 | 0.619 | 1.238 | 150 (+150%) |
1.547 | 3.094 | |||
Agility lvl 50 | 232 | 0.619 | 1.547 | |||||||||
Cave Diving | Underwater Cave | Mining lvl 55 | 800 | 1500 | 0.533 | 1.166 | 653 (+130%) |
1.225 | 2.680 | 3 Unique | ||
Agility lvl 55 | 150 | 0.100 | 0.230 | |||||||||
Foraging lvl 55 | 800 | 0.533 | 1.225 |
Bonus Experience Sources
No activities give bonus Mining experience.
Consumables
Name | Type | Skill(s) | Attribute | Duration | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cooked Anglerfish | Mining |
|
500 | ||||
Jarvonian Pastry | Mining |
|
5000 | ||||
Pancake | Mining |
|
1000 | ||||
Mining Memosphere | Mining |
|
N/A | ||||
Dynamite | Mining |
|
1000 |
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