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Power Minning - Iron or Granite

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Well, I have decided to bring my main back to life and go for 85 minning.

 

BUT im just not sure what to mine!

 

 

 

I know most people mine Iron but I have heard Granite is good xp!?

 

 

 

Just wanted ot get some opinions on what I should mine!

If you're a member then granite mining is definately the way to go. You can get up to 40K exp per hour there and the best thing is nobody is usually there :) . Good luck with your goal.

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If you're a member then granite mining is definately the way to go. You can get up to 40K exp per hour there and the best thing is nobody is usually there :) . Good luck with your goal.

 

 

 

40k xP? when i powermine iron i get around 50k each hour..lol hehe:) (sry if i sounds mean not my purpose) - (sry for the spelling)

If u have the mining lvl definitely go for granite when i mine it its almost 1.5 times the exp as iron

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50k xp per hour!? no way.

 

 

 

It takes 1 min to mine the iron at al kharid chasm mines on a full server.

 

Then minimum of 30 sec to drop. Considering a perfect mining routine that is around 2k xp per 3 min. That puts you at just 40k xp per hour even at perfect routine. I can get max 25k xp per hour at the iron powermining. Some might hit 30 or 33k, but 50 is outragous.

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50k xp per hour!? no way.

 

 

 

It takes 1 min to mine the iron at al kharid chasm mines on a full server.

 

Then minimum of 30 sec to drop. Considering a perfect mining routine that is around 2k xp per 3 min. That puts you at just 40k xp per hour even at perfect routine. I can get max 25k xp per hour at the iron powermining. Some might hit 30 or 33k, but 50 is outragous.

 

 

 

 

 

lol its not impossible.. just drop the ore while the iron ores are respawning.. i can get 8 x 3 ores at al karid each minut.. and each ore gives 35xp so its 8x3x35x60 = 50400 not lieing.. but if u dont believe me.. i must say.. i dont care...

 

 

 

and 2. to comment ur caculation.. if you are 30 sec to drop 28 ores then you are more than 1 sec to drop one which is very slow.. and the way you use is very very slow.. 25k each hour...i see y u dont have 85 mining (not to be mean).. and MANY people get for than 40k each hour for powermining so.. again not to insult you.. but dont comment on stuff you dont know a thing about..

iron...i made 1-85 minning with irons...trust me

 

 

 

I wouldn't call you a liar of course, it's not polite :oops: ... But I couldn't mine iron before level 15... Maybe you had certain advantages over me?

 

 

 

I don't like the concept of powermining: your only "profit" is xp. I like something in return for my effort (except xp) so I would say mine iron. If you don't mind smelting/smithing, you can sell them for approximately 100ea, which is still a nice pay-off for levelling a skill.

 

 

 

*Hearsay* If you insist on powermining, granite is best.

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lol its not impossible.. just drop the ore while the iron ores are respawning.. i can get 8 x 3 ores at al karid each minut.. and each ore gives 35xp so its 8x3x35x60 = 50400 not lieing.. but if u dont believe me.. i must say.. i dont care...

 

 

 

and 2. to comment ur caculation.. if you are 30 sec to drop 28 ores then you are more than 1 sec to drop one which is very slow.. and the way you use is very very slow.. 25k each hour...i see y u dont have 85 mining (not to be mean).. and MANY people get for than 40k each hour for powermining so.. again not to insult you.. but dont comment on stuff you dont know a thing about..

 

 

 

From my experience you should skip iron and do granite if you're power mining. I personally never got 50k per hour doing iron but then again I chose to drop after a full inventory instead of as I went. And before you dismiss my advice I've done fairly extensive timing/xp trials on both iron and granite. Using the same method in mining both, granite is 1.23 times faster than iron. So that's fairly significant I would say.

 

 

 

Btw, my mining is 85 assuming that has any bearing on the quality of my advice.

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I don't like the concept of powermining: your only "profit" is xp. I like something in return for my effort (except xp) so I would say mine iron. If you don't mind smelting/smithing, you can sell them for approximately 100ea, which is still a nice pay-off for levelling a skill.

 

 

 

 

You could always mine iron in the goblin caves from Lost tribe and sell to goblins or run to bank-chest from RFD and bank.

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whoa, thnx for the tip shade. i always dropped full invent instead of 3 at a time. ur advice got me to addy mining finally. After all these days of being stuck at 67-69 mining.....

 

 

 

I actually timed trialed a bit on ur technique. Went to world with 1400 ppl.

 

1.5 sec to drop 3 iron consistently and just as i dropped the 3rd ore the first iron respawned. From start to finish (moment b4 u click the 1st iron again), it took 6-7 sec considering i am not a best at cliking and my reaction time is avg. So (6.5 sec per 3 ore ) * 10 cycles is roughly 1 min per 30 ore. That would be 1050 xp per min of hardcore mining with no lag, randoms, distractions, etc. Do that for 30 min non stop (zenith of human endurance to repetition), and u end up at 31500 xp per half hour and 63000xp per hour.

 

 

 

The problem is that you said 50k per hour so maybe my numbers are wrong? I averaged about 7 sec to mine 3 ore and drop it just before the ore spawned again.

 

 

 

Off topic a bit here but today when i no lyfed to 70 mining, i got 9 gems in about 20 min. I got 2 sapphs off of one rock lol. Luckiest mining day ever.

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lol its not impossible.. just drop the ore while the iron ores are respawning.. i can get 8 x 3 ores at al karid each minut.. and each ore gives 35xp so its 8x3x35x60 = 50400 not lieing.. but if u dont believe me.. i must say.. i dont care...

 

 

 

 

You don't even rank in mining. Stop giving people false information. A perfect hour of powermining iron, dropping 3 while the rocks respawn, is 40k per hour. A more realistic average is 36k per hour. I have 86 mining, with most of my exp gained through powermining. You don't know what you're talking about.

No, you are wrong, 40k per hour would mean a 9.5 second respawn time for the ores. But on a full world, anyone can quickly see they respawn after around 7 seconds which gives more than 50k per hour.

 

 

 

Who doesn't know what they're talking about?

 

 

 

lol its not impossible.. just drop the ore while the iron ores are respawning.. i can get 8 x 3 ores at al karid each minut.. and each ore gives 35xp so its 8x3x35x60 = 50400 not lieing.. but if u dont believe me.. i must say.. i dont care...

 

 

 

 

You don't even rank in mining. Stop giving people false information. A perfect hour of powermining iron, dropping 3 while the rocks respawn, is 40k per hour. A more realistic average is 36k per hour. I have 86 mining, with most of my exp gained through powermining. You don't know what you're talking about.

 

 

 

 

 

Sry but you make me laugh... really really bad.. havnt you heard that people can have 2 accounts.. i got a 85 miner.. and no i wont give u the name cause it might get hacked.. and if you dont believe me well then i really really must say: "I just dont care"... but again if u just want to get 30k each hour.. well thats ur problem.. i wont defence my self cause its not my problem you have to mine even longer to get a mining lvl :(

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thx.. hehe ur calculations might be right.. u just said that i atleast gets 50k each hour...and gl powermining

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Sry but you make me laugh... really really bad.. havnt you heard that people can have 2 accounts.. i got a 85 miner.. and no i wont give u the name cause it might get hacked.. and if you dont believe me well then i really really must say: "I just dont care"... but again if u just want to get 30k each hour.. well thats ur problem.. i wont defence my self cause its not my problem you have to mine even longer to get a mining lvl :(

 

 

 

Please stop giving out false information. And hacking? Lol!! There's no such thing as account hacking in runescape. "Hacking" is idiots getting keylogged for going to questionable sites. I'll just reiterate that you clearly have no idea what you're talking about, and that 40k is the absolute maximum exp per hour you can get powermining iron. I've done it as fast as humanly possible, and that's the maximum exp gain you can get.

No, you are wrong, 40k per hour would mean a 9.5 second respawn time for the ores. But on a full world, anyone can quickly see they respawn after around 7 seconds which gives more than 50k per hour.

 

 

 

Who doesn't know what they're talking about?

 

 

 

Have you tried it? You can't drop the 3 ores you mined before the iron respawns on a full world. I don't care what the math says. I'm talking about what you can actually do. There have been many topics like this on this board, and this is the first time anyone has tried to claim you can get more than 40k per hour powermining iron. But no, you must be right :roll:

Granite, don't listen to this p.5 sec respawn rubbish. Granite got me from 50-52 in bout 20-30 mins. INSANE :shock:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Have you tried it? You can't drop the 3 ores you mined before the iron respawns on a full world. I don't care what the math says. I'm talking about what you can actually do. There have been many topics like this on this board, and this is the first time anyone has tried to claim you can get more than 40k per hour powermining iron. But no, you must be right :roll:

 

 

 

Yes I have, and its easy, with either hand. The 3 ores can be dropped in less than 1 second. There is a slight delay between dropping an item, and its picture disappearing from your backpack, you can have dropped all 3 while they are still all showing in your inventory (not that this helps in any way). There is a similar delay with the picture of the rock changing - you can start to mine the next ore while the previous one is still showing (this does help slightly).

 

 

 

It is easy to mine and drop with time to spare, it should take around 70 hours to get 85 mining.

If you're a member then granite mining is definately the way to go. You can get up to 40K exp per hour there and the best thing is nobody is usually there :) . Good luck with your goal.

 

 

 

40k xP? when i powermine iron i get around 50k each hour..lol hehe:) (sry if i sounds mean not my purpose) - (sry for the spelling)

 

 

 

Sure dude...

 

 

 

Ive powermined myself up to 85 mining and I know what I'm talking about: The maximum xp you can get by powermining (and dropping yourself) is 42k xp.

 

Even when somebody helps you (trades with you so you dont have to drop), it's nearly impossible to get 50k an hour.

Not to be rude but ive gotten myself mining 77-80 at granite, my members ran out and i finished with irons. I never ever got over 40k exp per hour at irons ( i take it from the experience of mining over 50 hours almost in a row there xD ). Not sure about granite but one day i really nolifed and got 200k mining exp at granite rocks o.o

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