Broken pickaxe

The Broken pickaxe was what remained of a pickaxe after a player attempted to extract ore from a smoking rock and the rock explodes. If damaged, you could take it to Nurmof in the Dwarven mines or Bob in Lumbridge to get it repaired. The previously mentioned NPCs would repair broken pickaxes for free or a fee depending on the pickaxe type. Although it is wieldable, you could not mine with a broken or damaged pickaxe, but you could get it fixed, drop it, and/or examine it. You could also bank them for later repairs or sell them as well. Note that you could only sell whole and undamaged pickaxes to Nurmof's shop in the Dwarven mines but you could have sold damaged or broken pickaxes to any player or the General Store. You could also buy or sell the heads and pickaxe handles from other players or the General Store too.

It should be noted that if the High Level Alchemy spell used on broken pickaxes is generally not a good idea, for example a broken rune pickaxe was only 660 coins when this spell was performed on it, yet can be repaired for 1,100 coins and then alchemised for 19,200 coins.

There was an adamant broken pickaxe on Ape Atoll north of the Monkey Temple, but it is inaccessible. It had a slightly different name; it is called a "broken pickaxe." (note the superfluous period.) This was probably to differentiate it from the normal adamant broken pickaxe.

Trivia
On February 25th 2009 all broken pickaxes were changed back to regular pickaxes. This cheated owners of broken pickaxes out of money as the value was reduced from 45k to less than 20k. Jagex did this in order to keep a broken pickaxe becoming a discontinued item like the disc of returning or easter eggs etc.