Pickaxe

Pickaxes, often abbreviated as pick, are used to mine any type of ore in Gielinor. Pickaxes can either be held in your inventory or wielded; but, to wield a pickaxe, your attack level must be high enough to wield a weapon of the same metal as your pickaxe. Wielding your pickaxe provides extra space in your inventory so you can hold more items.

Maintenance
A player will need to repair their pickaxe only if it has been damaged during the exploding rock random event. In this situation, players will be required to visit Nurmof in the Dwarven Mine or Bob at the Lumbridge axe shop for a small cost.

Players may also find their Pickaxe head flying off their handle. Players simply need to pick up their pick head and use it on the handle.

Smithing
After completion of the Perils of Ice Mountain quest, players can smith their own pickaxes, using 2 bars of the desired metal. Required smithing levels are as follows:

In-game

 * Pickaxe (Class 1)
 * Pickaxe (Class 2)
 * Pickaxe (Class 3)
 * Pickaxe (Class 4)
 * Pickaxe (Class 5)

Rewards

 * Volatile pickaxe
 * Sacred clay pickaxe

Trivia

 * In the early days of Runescape Classic, there was only one type of pickaxe available, named simply Pickaxe. It looked like a Steel pickaxe and could not be equipped. When different types of pickaxes were released in May 2003, all Pickaxes held or in the bank became the Bronze pickaxes that are commonly found today.
 * Due to complaints, and new random events, a hatchet can no longer lose its head. In the past, when it could, you would have to chase it down and put the head back on the hatchet. This event was not removed from mining, although, it appears to be extremely rare.
 * There is no black pickaxe, though other families of tools have black in between steel and mithril such as the black hatchet.
 * There was once a picture of a character mining a rock with what appeared to be a dragon pickaxe on the banner at the top of the homepage. It was later removed.
 * A recent announcement made by Jagex has confirmed that dragon pickaxes will be introduced to the game in the near future.

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