Gems

"Gem" redirects here. For the NPC located in the Clan Halls, see Gem (Clan Hall).

Gems are valuable stones that are primarily used in Crafting. They can be obtained from Mining (either randomly while mining other ores or from gem rocks), as a frequent drop from a wide range of monsters via part of the rare drop table or occasionally given out as gifts from various random events. Many types of gems can be purchased or sold (or stolen) at gem shops, identified with a red gem icon on the map ().

While mining most ore rocks or Motherlode Mine ore veins, players have a 1/256 chance of receiving a gem instead of an ore; this does not deplete the ore rock. Wearing a charged amulet of glory (of any number of charges other than 0) increases this chance to 1/86; wearing one while mining gem rocks increases the speed at which they are mined. It may be worth noting that the gems found randomly whilst mining most ores do not grant any additional Mining experience. Mining gems from gem rocks, however, does grant experience.

Using the Crafting skill, gems can be cut. From there, they can be made into jewellery, which can then be enchanted using the Magic skill, or into gem bolt tips using the Fletching skill.

Money making

The following money making guide is available for Gems:

Method	Hourly profit	Skills
Mining gemstones	620,724	40 (41+ recommended, 61+ strongly recommended)

Items

Free-to-play

Uncut			Cut
Gem		GE Price	Gem		GE Price
	Uncut sapphire	253		Sapphire	270
	Uncut emerald	465		Emerald	467
	Uncut ruby	1,009		Ruby	911
	Uncut diamond	2,125		Diamond	1,759

Members

Uncut			Cut
Gem		GE Price	Gem		GE Price
	Uncut opal	702		Opal	928
	Uncut jade	115		Jade	289
	Uncut red topaz	1,319		Red topaz	1,578
	Uncut dragonstone	13,256		Dragonstone	11,353
	Uncut onyx	1,396,118		Onyx	1,400,854
	Uncut zenyte	12,769,647		Zenyte	13,625,167