Iron ore





Iron ore is unrefined iron. A player with a Mining level of 15 or higher can mine iron ore from rocks found at various mines, granting 35 Mining experience for each ore mined. After being mined, an iron rock takes an average of 8 seconds to respawn.

A player with 15 or more Smithing can smelt iron ore into an iron bar by using it on a furnace, granting 12.5 Smithing experience, although there is a 50% chance that it will be too impure to smelt unless a player is wearing a Ring of Forging or is using the Super Heat Spell from a normal spell book, in which case the chance will be 100%. Note; A ring of Forging only lasts for 140 smelts.

A player with 30 or more Smithing can smelt iron ore into a steel bar by using it on a furnace along with 2 coal or just one using the Blast Furnace, granting 17.5 Smithing experience. It can also be used with level 16 Summoning, 7 Spirit shards, and 1 Gold charm to summon a Granite Crab.

Iron is the most popular ore that free-to-players power mine for experience. This is partly because iron is almost as abundant as copper. Using a rune pickaxe, a player can extract the iron ore from the rock in one strike, while mining copper, tin, or clay takes two or three strikes.

There was a popular place to mine iron in the mining area near Al Kharid, which has a place in the mine where there are three rocks in a triangle formation, making the player able to mine iron faster due to the three respawns. After an update, probably the Runescape HD update, the triangle formation disappeared.

Iron rocks close to a bank include the East Varrock mine (bank at East Varrock bank), Iron rocks near Port Khazard (bank at the Port Khazard deposit box), the Piscatoris Fishing Colony (bank inside the colony, must have completed Swan Song, also an excellent place to power-mine), right outside of the Mining Guild (bank at East Falador bank) and the iron rocks south of East Ardougne (bank at South bank). For the daring and adventurous, the Steel mine in the level 8 wilderness north of Edgeville also offers a few iron rocks.

Another way to get iron ore is as a drop. The Flesh crawler is known to drop iron ore regularly.

Free-to-play locations
Al-Kharid Mine - 9

Varrock mine SE - 4

Varrock mine SW - 3

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Smithing
A player can smelt an Iron ore into an Iron bar through the Smithing skill by using it on a furnace, granting 12.5 Smithing experience, but has as 50% success rate. This requires level 15 Smithing. Iron bars can then be used on Anvils to create Iron items. A player can also smelt a iron ore into a steel bar by using it on a furnace along with 2 coal or just one using the Blast Furnace, granting 17.5 Smithing experience. This requires level 30 Smithing.

Respawn rate
Iron ore, like all other mined rocks, respawns at a rate indirectly proportional to the number of people in the rock's RuneScape world. If the world is empty, the ore respawns in 10 seconds; if it is full (with 2000 players), it respawns in 5 seconds. Thus the respawn rate of iron ore is
 * $$10-\frac{x}{400}$$ seconds,

where x is the number of players in the world.

A table of respawn rates is given below.