RicH's 99 Mining Expedition - [COMPLETE]

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Legendryme 99 Mining Party
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50% from Level 92 - 99
Achieved 22nd November 2009

This guide is just to outline how I currently train Mining in the Living Rock Caverns, this is not the best guide by a long shot, although it is my personal method for Mining & it has worked for me thus far.

First of all you will need the basics to begin mining. Below shows my Inventory & my equipment.





As you can see I don't carry a lot of baggage. Obviously if you have a dragon pickaxe you should bring that instead, and a lot of players also bring a weapon & better melee armour in case they have to fight the Living Rock Strikers (140) or Living Rock Protectors (120), although I usually just run from the enemy.
I personally find that the Black Dragon Hide is defensive enough to suffice whilst I mine, although this varies depending on how much I'm concentrating. I should also mention that I am 73 Defence. If you are lower defence it would probably be better if you use Rune Armour.

I also don't carry anything in my inventory, although some players do carry food and summoning pouches (Pack Yak, Lava Titan, Spirit Terrorbird, War Tortoise, Obsidian Golem etc). Don't get me wrong, summoning does speed the process up, but being 25 summoning really puts me at a disadvantage

So how do you get there?

First of all, enter the Mining Guild behind Falador East Bank, shown on the picture below.



From inside the Mining Guild you can make your way out & past the agility wall obstacle & finally climb the rope down the Chasm to lead you into the Living Rock Caverns. How to get there is shown below.



The map below shows the Living Rock Caverns, and the locations of the concentrated ore deposits. The primary Mining Locations for fast ores are South West Gold (SW) South East Gold (SE) & occasionally North East Gold (NE). The Coal Surrounding SE & SW Gold are also viable options, and are generally readily available.



To Maximise your experience and efficiency it is suggested that you join World 84 Mining Golds & listen to the 'Calls' that are made by members. Generally the first gold ore that is called (usually SW or SE) is the gold that you have to mine.



Another thing I would like to mention, when a Gold Rock is called, it is important to go to that rock first before you start mining another Gold Mine.
Two Gold Rocks with people Mining them unnecessarily deteriorates them both at the same time & reduces the team's efficiency, as they may both go down at the same time & need players to wait longer for another ore to be available.

Quote from Runewiki


Although, generally Coal Rocks can be mined by whenever.

Also players should be aware that there are Living Rock Strikers (140) that will throw rocks at you as a range attack. Generally these can be avoided when at most Ore Deposits, although they are exclusively a problem at South West & North East Gold. If you can't seem to shake them, try running far into an open space, once they stop attacking you it should be safe to return.

That's it guys.

Happy Mining

If you feel that I have missed any major points, or wish me to expand upon this guide, please post a reply & I will, to the best of my ability, update the guide.

This Guide was made for Italy4Life