Gold ore

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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
Grand Exchange
Exchange							168 coins (info)
Buy limit							30,000
Daily volume							19,610,142
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Advanced data
Item ID							444
Twisted League							Yes

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.

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

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

Products

Item		Members	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

See gold rock

Item sources

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	76; 81	1	2/128
Brimstone chest	N/A	100–200 (noted)	1/15
Capt' Arnav's Chest	N/A	1	Very rare
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		1	1/10
Eclectic impling jar		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	Rare
Gnome child	75	1	8/128
Gnome woman	75	1	8/128
Gnome	75	1	8/128
Gold rock	40	1	Always
Greater demon Level 104	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 Level 82	82; 87; 94	1	2/128
Lesser demon Level 94	82; 87; 94	1	2/128
Lesser demon Level 87	82; 87; 94	1	2/128
Lesser demon Level 94 (Wilderness Slayer Cave)	94	5 (noted)	2/128
Marble gargoyle	349	10–20 (noted)	3 × 10/128
Mummy Level 96	96; 103	1	100/513
Mummy Level 103	96; 103	1	100/513
Mutated Bloodveld	123	1	7/128
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) Level 40	40	1	2/128
Skeleton (Tarn's Lair) Level 81	81	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
Theatre of Blood	N/A	Unknown	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) Level 40–56		3	2/128

Spawn locations

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

Shop locations

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

Changes

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.