Gold ore

Gold Rock
Level required	40
Mining XP	65 xp
Rock	Gold Rock
Required tool	Pickaxe
Respawn time	1 minute

Gold ore
Released	8 May 2001 (Update)
Members	No
Quest item	No
Properties
Tradeable	Yes
Equipable	No
Stackable	No
Noteable	Yes
Destroy	Drop
Examine	This needs refining.
Values
Value	150 coins
High alch	90 coins
Low alch	60 coins
Weight	2.267 kg
Respawn time	500 ticks (300 seconds)
Grand Exchange
Exchange	246 coins (info)
Buy limit	30,000
Daily volume	12,727,268
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Advanced data
Item ID	444

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Gold ore can be mined at level 40 Mining providing 65 Mining experience. After a gold rock is mined, it will take 60 seconds until it reappears. Gold ore is used to smelt gold bars. Smelting a gold bar gives 22.5 Smithing experience, or 56.2 with the goldsmith gauntlets equipped. The bar can then be crafted into various types of jewellery through the Crafting skill at a furnace, rather than an anvil like other bars. An anvil is used however to make a gold helmet or golden bowl for the quests Between a Rock... and Legends' Quest. Many items require a mould to create.

The chance to successfully mine gold ore scales linearly with the player's mining level. Were it possible to mine gold ore at level 1, players would have a 3% chance per mining cycle to successfully mine the ore. At level 99, players have a 29% chance to successfully mine the ore per mining cycle.^[1]

Wearing either mining gloves or expert mining gloves while mining a gold rock grants a 33.33% chance for the rock to not deplete upon mining a gold ore, allowing the player to mine an additional ore before depleting.

Mining Info[edit | edit source]

Products[edit | edit source]

	Skills	XP	Materials
Gold bar (Regular furnace)	40	22.5	1 × Gold ore
Gold bar (Blast furnace)	40	22.5	1 × Gold ore
Gold bar (Superheat)	40 43	22.5 53	1 × Gold ore 1 × Nature rune 4 × Fire rune

Locations[edit | edit source]

See gold rock

Item sources[edit | edit source]

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here (include RDT).

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Angry barbarian spirit	166	1	2/128
Barrel (Viyeldi caves)	N/A	1 (noted)	Rare
Berserk barbarian spirit	166	1	2/128
Bloodveld		1	2/128
Brimstone chest	N/A	100–200 (noted)	1/15
Chambers of Xeric	N/A	1–2,978 (noted)	2 × 1/33
Chaos Golem	70	2–3	6/52
Deranged archaeologist	276	10 (noted)	6/128
Earth impling jar	N/A	1	1/10
Earth impling	36; 46	1	1/10
Eclectic impling jar	N/A	1	1/10
Eclectic impling	50; 60	1	1/10
Elf (Thieving)	85	1	1/128
Elven Crystal Chest	N/A	350–500 (noted)	12/256
Enraged barbarian spirit	166	1	2/128
Flaming pyrelord	97	1	8/128
Gargoyle	111	10–20 (noted)	10/128
Giant skeleton (Tarn's Lair)	100	1	2/128
Gnome Restaurant	N/A	6–11	23/512
Gnome child	75	1	8/128
Gnome woman	75	1	8/128
Gnome	75	1	8/128
Gold rock	40	1	Always
Greater demon Wilderness Slayer Cave	104	10 (noted)	1/128
Grotesque Guardians		40–75 (noted)	2 × 7/137
Harpie Bug Swarm	46	1	8/128
Hero	80	1	1/128
Infernal pyrelord	134	2	8/128
Insatiable Bloodveld	202	1	3 × 2/128
Insatiable mutated Bloodveld	278	1	3 × 7/128
Kalphite Queen	333	250 (noted)	4/128
King Black Dragon	276	100 (noted)	2/128
Larran's big chest	N/A	150–250 (noted)	4/60
Larran's small chest	N/A	81–179 (noted)	4/60
Lesser demon Regular	82; 87; 94	1	2/128
Lesser demon Wilderness Slayer Cave	94	5 (noted)	2/128
Marble gargoyle	349	10–20 (noted)	3 × 10/128
Mineral vein	40	1	Always
Mummy Jaldraocht	96; 103	1	100/513
Mutated Bloodveld	123	1	7/128
Phosani's Nightmare		165–305 (noted)	4/100
Professor Manglethorp	N/A	6–11	Rare
Pyrefiend	43; 48	1	8/128
Pyrelord	60	2	8/128
Shop Counter (ore)	82	1	Unknown
Skeleton (Tarn's Lair) Medium level	40; 63; 72; 77	1	2/128
Skeleton (Tarn's Lair) High level	81; 87	1	2/128
Skeleton (mage)	94	1	2/128
Skeleton brute	132	1	2/128
Skeleton heavy	132	1	2/128
Skeleton hero	149	1	2/128
Skeleton thug	132	1	2/128
Skeleton warlord	132	1	2/128
Supply crate	N/A	8–11 (noted)	Varies
The Nightmare	814	14–174 (noted)	4/100
Theatre of Blood	N/A	300–360 (noted)	3 × 1/30
Thermonuclear smoke devil	301	200 (noted)	2/107
Tribesman	32	1	5/138
Venenatis	464	300 (noted)	6/128
Vet'ion	454	300 (noted)	6/128
Zalcano	336	86–721 (noted)	3/36
Zombie (Tarn's Lair) Low level	40–56	3	2/128

Spawn locations[edit | edit source]

Location	Spawns	Map
North Brimhaven mine	1	Maplink
Varrock - west bank basement	1	Maplink
Ruins (east), level 27 Wilderness	1	Maplink
Rogues' Castle (3^rd floor^[UK]4^th floor^[US]), level 53 Wilderness	1	Maplink
Rogues' Castle (ground floor^[UK]1^st floor^[US]), level 53 Wilderness	3	Maplink

Shop locations[edit | edit source]

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Seller	Location	Number in stock	Restock time	Price sold at	Price bought at
Ore seller.	Blast Furnace in Keldagrim	100	16h 40m	225	60
TzHaar-Hur-Rin's Ore and Gem Store	Mor Ul Rek	12	1m	225	22
TzHaar-Hur-Rin's Ore and Gem Store (Ironman)	Mor Ul Rek	12	1m	225	22
TzHaar-Hur-Lek's Ore and Gem Store	Mor Ul Rek	0	1m	225	22
TzHaar-Hur-Rin's Ore and Gem Store (Karamja gloves)	Mor Ul Rek	12	1m	195	52
TzHaar-Hur-Rin's Ore and Gem Store (Karamja gloves, Ironman)	Mor Ul Rek	12	1m	195	52
TzHaar-Hur-Lek's Ore and Gem Store (Karamja gloves)	Mor Ul Rek	0	1m	195	52
Ore store	Jatizso	5	6s	165	105
Petrified Pete's Ore Shop	Volcanic Mine	∞	N/A	150	N/A

Changes[edit | edit source]

Date	Changes
10 September 2020 (update)	The Grand Exchange buy limit was changed from 13,000 to 30,000.
16 April 2015 (update)	The experience boost from goldsmith gauntlets is now correctly applied when using gold ore on a furnace.

Gallery (historical)[edit | edit source]



RuneScape 2 Beta	29 March 2004 – present

References[edit | edit source]

^ Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 6 June 2020. (Archived from the original on 6 June 2020.)

[1] Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 6 June 2020. (Archived from the original on 6 June 2020.)

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v • d • e Gold items
	Ore Bar
Jewellery	Ring Necklace Bracelet Amulet^(unstrung)
Quest items	'perfect' ore 'perfect' bar Bowl^{(blessed, golden)} Helmet Tiara

v • d • e Mining
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Ores	Copper Tin Blurite Iron Daeyalt Elemental Silver Coal Gold ^('perfect') Blasted Mithril Lunar Lovakite Adamantite Runite
Fragments	Iron Silver Coal Gold Mithril Adamantite Runite
Salts	Basalt Efh salt Te salt Urt salt
Gems	Opal Jade Red topaz Sapphire Emerald Ruby Diamond
Other mineables	Clay Soft clay Rock Chocolate chunks Barronite shards Pay-dirt Unidentified minerals Granite Limestone Soda ash Volcanic ash Sandstone Rune essence Pure essence Dense essence block Daeyalt shard Volcanic sulphur Amethyst
Pickaxes	Bronze Iron Steel Black Mithril Adamant Rune Dragon ^{(upgraded) • (or)} Infernal 3rd age Crystal
Mining enhancers	Celestial ring Celestial signet Mining gloves Superior mining gloves Expert mining gloves Varrock armour 1 Varrock armour 2 Varrock armour 3 Varrock armour 4 Mining cape

Gold ore

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