Gold ore rocks

For the gold ore used in the Family Crest quest, see 'perfect gold ore'.

A rock is a protruding rock containing gold ore. A player with a Mining level of 40 or higher can mine gold ore  from rocks found in various mines,  granting 65 Mining experience for each ore mined.

F2P

 * Al-Kharid Mine -2
 * Crafting Guild - 7
 * Crandor - 4
 * Dwarven Mine - 2
 * Rimmington Mine - 2
 * Karamja Volcano Mine - 4

P2P

 * Brimhaven north-western mine - 10
 * By Agility Pyramid - 5
 * Grand Tree Mine - 4
 * Arzinian Mine - 84 sets of 2 ores
 * Mineral vein in Keldagrim - 1
 * TzHaar City - 3
 * North Keldagrim mining area - 8 (only after the quest Forgiveness of a Chaos Dwarf)
 * Concentrated gold rocks in the Living Rock Caverns- 4 (Fastest and easiest way to mine gold ore, sometimes giving two at a time)

Respawn rate
Gold ore, like all other mined rocks, respawns at a rate directly 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 gold ore is
 * minutes,

where x is the number of players in the world.

A table of respawn rates is given below.{|width="60%" align="center" class="wikitable" !Players !0 !200 !400 !600 !800 !1000 !1200 !1400 !1600 !1800 !2000 !Respawn time
 * 2:00
 * 1:54
 * 1:48
 * 1:42
 * 1:36
 * 1:30
 * 1:24
 * 1:18
 * 1:12
 * 1:06
 * 1:00
 * }