Iron ore
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| Members only? | No |
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| Quest item? | No |
| Tradeable? | Yes |
| Equipable? | No |
| Stacks? | No |
| High Alchemy | 10 coins |
| Low Alchemy | 6 coins |
| Destroy | Drop |
| Store price | 5 coins |
| Exchange price | 189 coins update |
| GE Database | Look up price |
| Examine | This needs refining. |
| Weight | 2.25 kg |
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Iron ore is unrefined iron. A player with a Mining level of 15 or higher can mine iron ore from rocks found in various mines, granting 35 Mining experience for each ore mined. After being mined, an iron rock takes between 5 and 10 seconds to respawn, which depends on the amount of players on the server.
A player with 15 or higher Smithing can smelt iron ore into an iron bar by using it on a furnace, granting 12.5 Smithing experience, although there is a 50% chance that it will be too impure to smelt unless a player is wearing a ring of forging or is using the Super Heat spell from a normal spell book, in which case the chance will be 100%. Note: A ring of forging only lasts for 140 smelts.
A player with 30 or higher Smithing can smelt iron ore into a steel bar by using it on a furnace along with 2 coal or just one using the Blast Furnace, granting 17.5 Smithing experience. It can also be used with level 16 Summoning, 7 spirit shards, and 1 gold charm to summon a Granite Crab.
Iron is the most popular ore that free-to-play players power-mine for experience. This is partly because iron is almost as abundant as copper. Using a rune pickaxe, a player can extract the iron ore from the rock in one strike, while mining copper, tin, or clay takes two or three strikes.
There was a popular place to mine iron in the mining area near Al Kharid, which has a place in the mine where there are three rocks in a triangle formation, making the player able to mine iron faster due to the three respawns. After an update, probably the Runescape HD update, the triangle formation disappeared.
Iron rocks that are close to a bank include the East Varrock mine (bank at East Varrock bank), Iron rocks near Port Khazard (bank at the Port Khazard deposit box), the Piscatoris Fishing Colony (bank inside the colony - must have completed Swan Song - also an excellent place to power-mine), right outside of the Mining Guild (bank at East Falador bank), and the iron rocks south of East Ardougne (bank at South bank). For the daring and adventurous, the Steel mine in the level 8 wilderness north of Edgeville also offers a few iron rocks.
Another way to get iron ore is as a drop. The Flesh crawler is known to drop iron ore regularly.
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[edit] Ore locations
[edit] Free-to-play locations
Al Kharid Mine - 9
Varrock mine SE - 4
Varrock mine SW - 3
Dwarven mine - 9
North of Edgeville Wilderness lvl 8 - 2
Edgeville Dungeon - 3
Rimmington mine - 6
[edit] Members locations
Ardougne mine - 11 iron ores, nearest bank is East-Ardougne
West of Falador - 3 iron ores
Port Khazard Mine - 9 iron ores, nearest bank is East-Yanille
Near Piscatoris Fishing Colony
[edit] Smithing
A player can smelt an Iron ore into an Iron bar through the Smithing skill by using it on a furnace, granting 12.5 Smithing experience, but has as 50% success rate. This requires level 15 Smithing. Iron bars can then be used on Anvils to create Iron items. A player can also smelt a iron ore into a steel bar by using it on a furnace along with 2 coal or just one using the Blast Furnace, granting 17.5 Smithing experience. This requires level 30 Smithing.
[edit] Money-making
If a player were to mine his own iron ore and smelt it into iron bars with a Ring of forging at a furnace near a bank the player would be able to make a lot of money in a short period.
A free player, though unable to use any enchanted rings, can still mine the iron ore for direct selling. The current price of iron ore should be taken care, though. The selling of these ores is relatively quick, usually complete after 1-5 hour of exchange placement.
[edit] Respawn rate
Iron ore, like all other mined rocks, respawns at a rate indirectly proportional to the number of people in the rock's RuneScape world. If the world is empty, the ore respawns in 10 seconds; if it is full (with 2000 players), it respawns in 5 seconds. Thus the respawn rate of iron ore is
seconds,
where x is the number of players in the world.
A table of respawn rates is given below.
| Players | 0 | 200 | 400 | 600 | 800 | 1000 | 1200 | 1400 | 1600 | 1800 | 2000 |
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| Respawn time | 10.0 s | 9.5 s | 9.0 s | 8.5 s | 8.0 s | 7.5 s | 7.0 s | 6.5 s | 6.0 s | 5.5 s | 5.0 s |
[edit] References
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| Iron equipment
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Dagger • Hatchet • Mace • Claws(m) • Sword • Longsword • Scimitar • Spear(m) • Warhammer • Battleaxe • Two-hander • Halberd(m) • Hasta(m) • Pickaxe |
| Armour |
Medium helm • Full helmet • Square shield • Kiteshield • Chainbody • Platebody • Plateskirt • Platelegs • Boots(m) • Gloves(m) • Gauntlets • Defender(m) |
| Ranged |
Crossbow(m) • Bolts(m) • Arrows • Brutal arrows(m) • Darts(m) • Javelins(m) • Throwing axe(m) • Throwing knife |
| Other |
Arrowtips • Broken axe • Broken pickaxe • Ore • Bar • Nails • Oil lantern frame • Sickle |
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| Steel equipment
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| Weapons |
Dagger • Hatchet • Mace • Claws(m) • Sword • Longsword • Scimitar • Spear(m) • Warhammer • Battleaxe • Two-hander • Halberd(m) • Hasta(m) • Pickaxe |
| Armour |
Medium helm • Full helmet • Square shield • Kiteshield • Chainbody • Platebody • Plateskirt • Platelegs • Boots(m) • Gloves(m) • Gauntlets • Defender(m) |
| Ranged |
Crossbow(m) • Bolts(m) • Arrows • Brutal arrows(m) • Darts(m) • Javelins(m) • Throwing axe(m) • Throwing knife(m) |
| Other |
Arrowtips(m) • Broken axe • Broken pickaxe • Bar • Coal • Nails • Bullseye lantern frame(m) |
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