Silver ore



Silver ore is a type of ore that can be obtained through the Mining skill in various places throughout RuneScape. Silver ore can be mined with a Mining level of 20 or higher, granting 40 Mining experience.

After being mined, a silver rock takes an average of 2 minutes to respawn. It can then be smelted using the Smithing skill to form a silver bar, giving the player 13.7 smithing XP. It can then be crafted into various types of jewellery through the Crafting skill, but cannot be smithed into weapons or armour with the exception of the silver sickle and silver bolts. Silver ore is popular in non-member worlds as it can be smithed and made into tiaras for crafting experience.

Respawn rate
Silver ore, like all other mined rocks, respawns at a rate inversely proportional to the number of people in the rock's RuneScape world. If the world is empty, the ore respawns in 2 minutes; if it is full (with 2000 players), it respawns in 1 minute. Thus the respawn rate of silver ore is
 * $$2-\frac{x}{2000}$$ minutes,

where x is the number of players in the world.

A table of respawn rates is given below.

It is worthwhile to note that silver ore has the same respawn rate as gold ore.