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Mining Coal

Category: Skills

Subcategory: Mining

	General Description: Mining coal.
	Creation/Revision Date: November 5, 2009
	Levels Defined: Low, Mid, High, Very High
	Members Only? Yes
	XP Benefits: Mining
	Other Benefits: --
	Additional Info: --

General Method Requirements

	Requirements
Skills	Mining(30)
Quests
Equipment	Any pickaxe
Other

Summary of Level Methods and Profitability Figures

Level	Low	Mid	High	Very High
Location	Coal Trucks	Coal Trucks	Mining Guild	Mining Guild
Skills as Evaluated	Mining(31), Agility(30)	Mining(50), Agility(50)	Mining(70), Summoning(47)	Mining(90), Summoning(85)
Hourly Profit	54,747 gp per hour	83,848 gp per hour	110,534 gp per hour	128,611 gp per hour
Overall Profit Rank	# 429 / 473 (9th percentile)	# 400 / 473 (15th percentile)	# 363 / 473 (23rd percentile)	# 337 / 473 (29th percentile)
Profit Rank Within Level	# 30 / 35 (14th percentile)	# 60 / 77 (22nd percentile)	# 97 / 124 (22nd percentile)	# 117 / 145 (19th percentile)

General Method Description

Coal is used in the smelting of steel, mithril, adamantite and runite bars and is always in high demand.

You can start mining it at level 30, but it is still slow, and low level players have to deal with a variety of issues, including attacking monsters. At higher levels you can use the more convenient Mining Guild, and yield improves greatly. The use of a lava titan familiar at very high levels is also helpful. Even with all that, coal is not the best money maker in the world, but it's an option some players like.

Very high level players who also have high combat skills should strongly consider mining concentrade coal deposits instead, to earn more money and more XP as well.

Note that a dragon pickaxe will provide more yield than a rune pickaxe for those with Mining levels above 60. Due to its very high cost, however, I have decided not to include it in the Moneymaking Guide at this time.

All information based on Grand Exchange price data from: May 20, 2012. Note that the three-day delay in price updates is waived for RuneScoop members.

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