Granite


 * Granite may also refer to Granite equipment or Granite rocks.

Granite is an item that can only be mined from granite rocks at the Western desert mining site south of the Bandit Camp in the Kharidian Desert. In this quarry, as elsewhere in the desert, desert heat will continually reduce the player's Lifepoints unless the player has waterskins in inventory or is wearing an Enchanted water tiara. Prior to January 2007, no water was required in the quarry.

Types of granite
A player must have Mining level of 45 or greater to mine granite, which yields the following experience depending on the size the granite block mined:


 * {|class="wikitable"

! !Size !XP !Examine text !Exchange Price
 * Granite 500g.png
 * 500g
 * 50
 * A tiny chunk of granite.
 * Granite 2kg.png
 * 2 kg
 * 60
 * A small chunk of granite.
 * Granite 5kg.png
 * 5 kg
 * 75
 * A medium-sized chunk of granite.
 * }
 * Granite 5kg.png
 * 5 kg
 * 75
 * A medium-sized chunk of granite.
 * }
 * }

Uses
Granite is required in:
 * The Enakhra's Lament quest, which requires a head for Lazim's statue to be made from granite.
 * The King's Ransom quest, which requires granite to change King Arthur back to life from stone.
 * Making Granite lobster pouches, which requires any sized piece.

Mining granite


Granite respawns quickly. This means a player can mine continuously at a group of only 3-4 rocks.

When granite is mined, the player receives one of the three sizes of granite blocks. Players with higher mining levels are more likely to get larger blocks. When wearing Varrock armour 2 or above with the armour effect activates, the size of the second block of granite will be the same as the first block.

Splitting granite
By using a chisel, the player can split the larger blocks into 500g ones: four 500g blocks from 2 kg, and ten from 5 kg (first by cutting the 5 kg block into two 2 kg and two 500g blocks, and then cutting the 2 kg blocks). 500g blocks used to occasionally be in great demand because there were the sole tertiary component for infusing Granite lobster Summoning pouches, but a recent update allowed any size granite to be used for the pouches. The 500g block remains most popular for making the pouches, as it allows the most efficient use of the granite and thus fewer trips to the quarry. Mining granite, keeping and banking only the 5 kg blocks, and later chiselling them down to 500g can yield many of these small blocks fairly quickly. If time spent mining is a concern, keeping and banking the 5 kg and 2 kg blocks yields many 500g blocks almost as fast.

The block must be chiseled one by one, as there is no 'split all' option. This can result in a fair amount of time spent clicking and banking, to get the 500g blocks. Also, a player cannot chisel a block if there is insufficient inventory space to hold all the resulting pieces. One way to reduce the time spent here a bit is to use inventory space efficiently. The chisel must take up one inventory slot, leaving 27 slots for the granite. The following combination thus allows for most efficient inventory use:
 * Starting with multiple 5 kg blocks,
 * Chisel three 5 kg blocks (26 500g blocks and 1 2 kg block produced) - Repeat five times (each time banking all the granite)
 * Chisel four 2 kg blocks and one 5 kg block (26 500g blocks produced)
 * And repeat with the three 5 kg blocks again

Before the mining update of 9 September 2008, larger blocks could not be chiselled into 500g blocks. Jagex adjusted the price of 2 kg and 5 kg blocks from their former prices of 4 and 10 coins to over 4,000 and 10,000 coins, to be in line with the price of 500g granite. Prices have dropped since the update.

Price history
Before the update on 9 September 2009 which allowed players to chisel Granite pieces into Granite (500g), Granite (2 kg) and Granite (5 kg) were worth very little compared to Granite (500g), since only Granite (500g) could be used in making Granite lobster pouches. Because the 5 kg and 2 kg pieces could now be cut into 10 and 4 of the 500g pieces, respectively, Jagex fixed their prices at 10 and 4 times the price of the 500g pieces, which on the day of the update, was 1058 coins. This led to the 5 kg piece of granite undergoing one of the biggest price spikes of all time, rising from 6 coins to 1,580 coins each, a price increase of 176,333%, in just one day. Similarly, the 2 kg piece rose from 10 coins to 4,232 coins, a price increase of 42,320%.

Granite

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