General Method Description

Granite was traditionally used for powerleveling the Mining skill, as it provided good Mining XP, but granite itself was useless. When Summoning was introduced, Jagex made the very small (500g) granite blocks a secondary ingredient, so these were quite valuable, but the other pieces remained worthless. Jagex then added the ability to chisel the larger blocks into smaller ones, so now all granite pieces have value, with the larger ones worth more.

The two quickest ways of getting to the mine are using the Camulet from the quest Enakhra's Lament, or a Pharaoh's sceptre from the Pyramid Plunder minigame. Taking the latter to the Ancient Magicks pyramid is actually faster, but having to recharge it all the time is a nuisance and gets expensive, so I recommend using the Camulet. Just store a number of buckets of dung in your bank to recharge that as needed. I have not included the time needed to get the camel dung in the method calculations here.

Note that some people prefer to drop the smaller chunks of granite to concentrate on the more valuable ones, but banking is pretty quick so I keep them all.

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.