Granite rocks

Granite is an item that can only be mined at the quarry south of the Bandit Camp in the Kharidian Desert. In the quarry, as in the desert, desert heat will continually reduce the player's Hitpoints  unless the player has waterskins  in inventory, or is wearing an Enchanted water tiara. Prior to January 2007, no water was required in the quarry.

Types of granite
A player must have Mining level of 45 or greater to mine granite, which yields the following experience depending on the size the granite block  mined:
 * {|class="wikitable"

! !Size !XP !Examine text !Exchange Price Text messages:
 * File:Granite 500g.png
 * 500g
 * 50
 * A tiny chunk of granite.
 * 325 coins
 * File:Granite 2kg.png
 * 2kg
 * 60
 * A small chunk of granite.
 * 871 coins
 * File:Granite 5kg.png
 * 5kg
 * 75
 * A medium-sized chunk of granite.
 * 1,693 coins
 * }
 * A medium-sized chunk of granite.
 * 1,693 coins
 * }
 * Mine rocks - "You swing your pick at the rock", then "You manage to quarry some granite."
 * Prospect rocks - "This rock is granite."
 * Examine rocks - "A rocky outcrop."

Mining granite
Granite respawns quickly, so that a player can mine continuously at a group of only 3-4 rocks.

When granite is mined, the player randomly receives one of the three sizes of granite blocks. When wearing Varrock armour and the armour effect activates, the size of the second block of granite will be the same as the first block.

There is no way that the player can influence which block size is mined. However, by using a chisel, the player can carve the larger blocks into 500g ones: four 500g blocks from 2kg, and ten from 5kg  (first by cutting the 5kg block into two 2kg and two 500g blocks, and  then cutting the 2kg blocks). 500g blocks are occasionally in great demand because it is as a tertiary component for infusing Summoning pouches, so mining granite,  keeping and banking only the 5kg blocks, and later chiselling them down  to 500g can yield many of these small blocks fairly quickly.

Before the mining update of 9 September 2008, larger blocks could not be chiselled into 500g  blocks. Jagex adjusted the price of 2kg and 5kg blocks from their former prices of 4 and 10 coins to over 4,000 and 10,000 coins, to be in  line with the price of 500g granite. Prices have dropped since the update