I am doing this at the moment so I will say my stats... I am 76 mining. give or take a few xp, here are my following calculations: Setup: 1. Rune Pickaxe OR Clay Pickaxe 2. Spirit Kyatt 3. Ring of Dueling Procedure: Summon Kyatt Use Teleport from Kyatt Mine Iron just north-east of tele spot Tele to Castlewars Repeat With SC Pickaxes: (all approx) You need 5 SC Pickaxes (75,000/15,000) for an hours worth of training.. This hour of actual mining will net you 75,000 xp. It will take approx 115 minutes (at most) to get 5 pickaxes 60 minutes of mining + 115 minutes of SC = 175 minutes. 75,000 xp / 175 minutes = 428.57 minute 428.57 xp/minute X 60 minutes = 25,714.285 XP/hour Mining with Rune Pick: Same procedure, except you mine with Rune Pick, bank each load, and repeat. 35,000xp/hour Results: 35,000XP - Straightup Rune Pick mining 25,714XP - Clay Pick mining ---------------- 9,286XP Mining with a Rune Pickaxe grants you 9,286XP extra per hour. go ahead and drop the ores if you want the extra 6-9 ore xp, but its fast to bank and it lets you have a little break from mining :) plus, the little profit is decent.