Tin ore
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| Members only? | No |
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| Quest item? | No |
| Tradeable? | Yes |
| Equipable? | No |
| Stacks? | No |
| High Alchemy | 1 coins |
| Low Alchemy | 8 coins |
| Destroy | Drop |
| Store price | 6 coins |
| Exchange price | 72 coins update |
| GE Database | Look up price |
| Examine | This needs refining. |
| Weight | 2.25 kg |
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Tin ore is an ore used to create the metal alloy bronze. Tin ore, along with copper ore, is the first ore a player can mine through the Mining skill, and the rocks it is mined from are found at various mines. One of the best mines is the East Varrock Mine, as it is near a bank and the Grand Exchange. Mining a tin ore grants 17.5 Mining experience for each ore mined. A player can smelt tin ore into a bronze bar through the Smithing skill by using it on a furnace along with a copper ore, granting 6.25 Smithing experience.
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[edit] Making Money
Now that Copper Ore and Tin Ore are about the same price, you could still make a decent profit by smelting them into a Bronze Bar, gaining Smithing Experience.
[edit] Locations
Tin rocks can be found in many mines, including:
- Lumbridge Swamp (east)
- West Varrock Mine
- East Varrock Mine
- Dwarven Mine
- Edgeville Dungeon Mine 2 rocks
- Barbarian Village
- Abandoned Mine (members only)
- Port Khazard (members only)
- West of Falador (members only). This is the closest mine to a bank, if you can use the Falador Wall agility shortcut. There is also a furnace in Falador.
[edit] Money-making
For new players, tin is ideal for money-making in the mining skill, because it sells for more than copper in the Grand Exchange and requires level 1 mining to mine.
[edit] Respawn rate
Tin ore, like all other mined rocks, respawns at a rate directly proportional to the number of people in the rock's RuneScape world. If the world is empty, the ore respawns in 4 seconds; if it is full (with 2000 players), it respawns in 2 seconds. Thus the respawn rate of tin 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 | 4.0 s | 3.8 s | 3.6 s | 3.4 s | 3.2 s | 3.0 s | 2.8 s | 2.6 s | 2.4 s | 2.2 s | 2.0 s |
It is worthwhile to note that tin ore has the same respawn rate as copper ore.
[edit] References
| Mining
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| Bronze 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 • Arrows • Brutal arrows(m) • Darts(m) • Javelins(m) • Throwing axe(m) • Throwing knife |
| Other |
Arrowtips • Broken axe • Broken pickaxe • Bar • Copper ore • Tin ore • Nails • Wire |
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