Pickaxe

Pickaxes, often abbrevated as pick, are used to mine different types of ores all around the RuneScape world. 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.

Maintenence
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 need to visit Nurmof in the Dwarven Mine and be prepared to spend a small fee to have your pickaxe repaired. Bob in the the Lumbridge axe shop will also repair broken pickaxes and woodcutting axes.

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. During the transition to Runescape 2, all Pickaxes held or in the bank became the Bronze pickaxes that are commonly found today.