Mithril ore



Mithril ore is a type of ore that can be obtained through the Mining skill in various places throughout RuneScape. It can be smelted with 4 heaps of coal through the Smithing skill at level 50 to form a mithril bar, which can then be smithed into various types of weapons and armour.

Mithril ore can be mined with a Mining level of 55 or higher, granting 80 Mining experience. After being mined, a mithril rock takes an average of 3 minutes to respawn.

Locations
Mithril ore is obtainable from the locations here.

Respawn rate
Mithril 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 4 minutes; if it is full (with 2000 players), it respawns in 2 minutes. Thus the respawn rate of mithril ore is
 * $$4-\frac{x}{1000}$$ minutes,

where x is the number of players in the world.

A table of respawn rates is given below.

A common way to overcome the slow respawn rate of mithril ore is world switching. This is done by mining the ore on a world untill you have mined all the rocks and then logging out to the lobby and switching to a different world.Repeat until the player's inventory is full. This is NOT against the Jagex rules.

The 5 mithril rocks at the lumbridge swamp is good for world switching, however being a member is an enormous advantage because one will rarely find another player at the mine.

Trivia

 * When RuneScape was first released, smelting mithril bars required level 55 Smithing. Jagex later redefined the smithing table such that smelting mithril bars only required level 50 Smithing.
 * The metal Mithril also features in both the novel and film series The Lord of The Rings, however, in this case, it is white.
 * A great place to mine mithril is in the hidden resource chamber in the dwarven mine and the 6 rocks are next to a deposit box. This is recommended on highly populated servers as shown above.
 * Mithril is also a type of metal used for light armour in the award winning game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion