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Upgrading your pickaxe should be done whenever you have the possibility to. The upgrades are available in the [[Shop#Pickaxes|shop]].

There are several items you can use to increase the rate at which you train the {{Skill|Mining}} skill:

| {{ItemIcon|Ancient Ring of Skills}} || The Ancient Ring of Skills is a rare drop that can be found while {{Skill|Fishing}}. It increases the XP gained from non-combat skills by 8%.

| {{ItemIcon|Firemaking Skillcape}} || The Mining Skillcape provides a +5% boost to XP gained in any skill when worn.

| {{PetIcon|Firemaking}} || The Pyro pet provides a +1% boost to XP gained in any skill.

| {{PetIcon|Mining}} || The Cool Rock pet provides +5 Max HP to all Mining Nodes.  

| {{ItemIcon|Book of Scholars}} || The Book of Scholars provides a +3% boost to XP gained in any skill when worn.

| {{ItemIcon|Miner's Helmet}} || The Miner's Helmet provides a 3% chance to do no damage to a mining node and 2% increased Mastery XP when worn.

| {{ItemIcon|Perfect Swing Potion IV}} || The Perfect Swing Potion provides up to 80% chance to deal no damage to a mining node per charge.

| {{ItemIcon|Mole}} || The Mole Familiar provides a 3% chance to obtain an additional ore or rune essence while mining. When paired with {{ItemIcon|Bear}} AND {{ItemIcon|Perfect Swing Potion IV}}, all mining nodes gain +20 Max HP, increasing your overall XP gain per hour.

If available to the player then rings such as {{ItemIcon|Aorpheats Signet Ring}}, {{ItemIcon|Ancient Ring of Skills}}, or {{ItemIcon|Ancient Ring of Mastery}} should be equipped depending on whether the player prioritizes item, skill experience, or mastery experience gain.

In addition {{ItemIcon|Clue Chasers Insignia}} may be equipped to increase the drop rate of [[Mastery Tokens]], and also very slightly increase the rate of [[Mining#Gems|Gems]] if not using {{ItemIcon|Gem Gloves}}.

== Gloves ==

Mining offers two alternative gloves, both of which can be purchased from the [[Shop#Gloves|Shop]].

{{ItemIcon|Gem Gloves}} - For a cost of {{GP|500,000}}, Gem Gloves provide 2,000 charges of gloves that guarantee a random Gem to drop every action. It should be noted that these gloves guarantee a small profit per glove and is highly recommend to use these all the way to 99 for an income usually over 10m total. (Does not work on {{ItemIcon|Rune Essence}}.)

{{ItemIcon|Mining Gloves}} - For a cost of {{GP|75,000}}, Mining Gloves increase the base quantity of ores to 2 (or 4 for {{ItemIcon|Rune Essence}} instead). The base quantity can then be doubled by normal means such as mastery.

 

 

==== Level 1-15: Copper/Tin Ore ====

Mine either {{ItemIcon|Tin Ore}} or {{ItemIcon|Copper Ore}}. Ideally, an equal amount of tin and copper will be mined in order to create {{ItemIcon|Bronze Bar|Bronze Bars}} for training {{Skill|Smithing}} later.

 

 

Mine {{ItemIcon|Coal Ore}} until you unlock {{ItemIcon|Mithril Ore}}. Any {{ItemIcon|Coal Ore}} mined will be needed for {{Skill|Smithing}} training later.

 

* The required {{ItemIcon|Coal Ore}} necessary to smelt the large amount of {{ItemIcon|Mithril Bar|Mithril Bars}} needed later will be obtained once {{SkillReq|Mining|99}} has been reached, taking advantage of the {{ItemIcon|Mining Skillcape}} perk

 

Once 99 Mining is achieved, the {{ItemIcon|Mining Skillcape}} becomes available for purchase from the [[Shop#Skillcapes|Shop]]. When equipped, this provides 1 extra {{ItemIcon|Coal Ore}} for each ore mined.

 

With the {{ItemIcon|Mining Skillcape}} equipped you have to mine about {{ItemIcon|Rune Essence|qty=160000}} for {{SkillReq|Runecrafting|99}}. {{ItemIcon|Gem Gloves}} do not work with {{ItemIcon|Rune Essence}}, therefore if affordable the {{ItemIcon|Mining Gloves}} are a good alternative to speed up the process.

==== Level 99: Coal ore ====

After mining {{ItemIcon|Rune Essence}}, about {{ItemIcon|Coal Ore|qty=235000}} will still be needed. Equipping {{ItemIcon|Gem Gloves}} while mining this is recommended.

This section and table was developed by soup#8068.

Assumptions:

* Avg. profit of 131 gp/charge of gem gloves.

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The player should use mining gloves to mine essence, and then gem gloves for coal. A total investment of ~2M GP saves ~15 hrs of time.

Furthermore, if the player has an excess of money, or access to money making methods to make in excess of 415k/hr ({{SkillReq|Fishing|99}}, {{SkillReq|Woodcutting|99}}), then using mining gloves for all mining actions is a more efficient use of time.