Mining and Smithing guide

Here are some of my mining tips along with some of my favorite mining spots. Save all your ores to work on smithing. Mine lots of stars all the way to level 99 and beyond, see my star hunting guide on this website. Two familiars do give an invisible mining boost. Obsidian Golem lvl 73 gives a +7 mining boost and the Lava Titan lvl 83 gives a +10 mining boost.

Varrock Armour gives a mining boost.

level 1-20 mine copper and tin in Varrock.

level 21-77 mine mostly iron, but you can mine any other ores and save them if you want.

If you have at least 15 dungeonering you can bank in the resource dungeon, where there is a deposit box. There are 3 iron ores right outside the door to the resource dungeon and there are 13 coal ore inside the resouce dungeon. I find I level faster with iron and you can get lots of coal when you get to level 77 mining.

Another favorite spot is outside living rock caverns where there are two iron ores. You can climb down the rope and use the deposit box inside the cavern.

A spot I haven't used much is at the mine outside Piscatoris fishing colony. There are 3 iron ores in a triangle and you don't have to move at all you can just mine and drop for fast levels.

I myself never liked mining at the granite quarry but many people mine there for very good experience. You can tele to a bank and deposit your granite or just drop it for faster exp. Granite sells well because it is used for summoning.

Once you reach 77 mining you can start mining in living rock caverns. At 77 you can mine coal and at 80 you can mine gold. There is a deposit box in the cavern and you should save all your ores for smithing later. World 84 or world 77 are safer for living rock cavern because they are crowded worlds and it makes it safer to mine. You will get hit sometimes so I don't recommend AFKing down there. As long as you are paying attention you should be safe to mine.

One of my favorite mines is the one in Keldagrim. You need to complete Forgiveness of a Chaos Dwarf to use the mine. I take the cart from the GE to get to Keldagrim. There are two runite ores and 10 adamantite as well as several gold ores. I spent many hours mining here and saving all the ores I could to smith with.

This is the video I made to celebrate my first 99 They took away my music so just play your own when you watch it

SMITHING

This is where you will start using the ores you have mined.
level 1-5 make bronze bars
level 5-15 smith bronze bars into arrowheads
level 15 make iron bars, use ring of forging

level 22 smith iron bars into knives
level 40-99 make gold bars using gold smithing gauntlets obtained from Family Crest quest.
level 68 smith mithril plates if you have any mithril ore in your bank
level 73-99 smith addy bolts or arrow tips. Fletch them for fletching exp if you want.

If you have saved the ores you have mined it should be an easy road to 99 ^_^ good luck!