Mining

Mining is a skill that 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

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.

Mining Activities

Activity		Location(s)	Skill(s)	Level(s)	Exp	Base Steps	Base Exp/Step	Base Total Exp/Step	Min Steps	Max Exp/Step	Total Max Exp/Step	Notes
	Mine Copper Ore	Frostbite Mountain	Mining	1	15	45	0.333	0.333	30	0.500	0.500	Requires a Pickaxe
	Mine Tin Ore	Frostbite Mountain	Mining	10	24	60	0.400	0.400	38	0.632	0.632	Requires a Pickaxe
	Mine Iron Ore	Frostbite Mountain	Mining	20	29	60	0.483	0.483	38	0.763	0.763	Requires a Pickaxe
	Mine Coal	Frostbite Mountain, Sanguine Hills	Mining	30	48	80	0.600	0.600	45	1.067	1.067	Requires a Pickaxe
	Mine Tarsilium Ore	Sanguine Hills	Mining	40	58	90	0.644	0.644	48	1.208	1.208	Requires a Pickaxe, Requires level 35 Agility for the Shortcut
	Mine Farganite Ore	Sanguine Hills	Mining	50	78	105	0.743	0.743	53	1.472	1.472	Requires a Pickaxe, Requires level 35 Agility for the Shortcut
	Surface Salt Mining	Beach of Woes	Mining	1	15	45	0.333	0.333	30	0.500	0.500	Requires a Pickaxe
	Gold Panning	Norsack Plains	Mining	15	20	70	0.286	0.457	44	0.455	0.728	Requires a Gold Pan
			Fishing	5	12		0.171			0.273
	Spelunking	Sanguine Hills	Mining	50	232	375	0.619	1.238	150	1.547	3.094	Requires a Light Source and a Climbing Tool, Requires level 35 Agility for the Shortcut
			Agility	50	232		0.619			1.547

Item Unlocks

These items can be used at the following Mining levels. If an item has a secondary requirement it is listed in brackets.

Level	Item(s)	Level	Item(s)	Level	Item(s)	Level	Item(s)
1	Basic Pickaxe, Copper Pickaxe, Simple Magnet, Simple Gold Pan ( 1)	26		51		76
2		27		52		77
3		28		53		78
4		29		54		79
5		30	Steel Pickaxe	55		80
6		31		56		81
7	Simple Mining Shovel	32	Miner's Magnet, Miner's Shirt	57		82
8		33		58		83
9		34		59		84
10	Bronze Pickaxe, Hand Lantern	35	Miner's Pants	60		85
11		36		61		86
12		37		62		87
13		38		63		88
14		39		64		89
15	Steel-Toe Boots ( 15)	40	Tarsilium Pickaxe	65		90
16		41		66		91
17		42		67		92
18		43		68		93
19		44		69		94
20	Iron Pickaxe	45		70		95
21		46		71		96
22		47		72		97
23	Mining Helmet	48		73		98
24		49		74		99
25	Miner's Beard	50	Farganite Pickaxe, Shovel Axe ( 50)	75