Granite


 * Granite may also refer to Granite equipment or Granite rocks.

Granite is an item that can only be mined from granite rocks at the Western desert mining site south of the Bandit Camp in the Kharidian Desert. In this quarry, as elsewhere in the desert, desert heat will continually reduce the player's Lifepoints 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
 * Granite 500g.png
 * 500g
 * 50
 * A tiny chunk of granite.
 * [[File:Granite 2kg.png]]
 * 2 kg
 * 60
 * A small chunk of granite.
 * [[File:Granite 5kg.png]]
 * 5 kg
 * 75
 * A medium-sized chunk of granite.
 * }
 * [[File:Granite 5kg.png]]
 * 5 kg
 * 75
 * A medium-sized chunk of granite.
 * }
 * }

Text messages:
 * 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."

Uses
Granite is required in:
 * The Enakhra's Lament quest, which requires a head for Lazim's statue to be made from granite.
 * The King's Ransom quest, which requires granite to change King Arthur back to life from stone.
 * Making Granite lobster pouches, which requires any sized piece.

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 receives one of the three sizes of granite blocks. Players with higher mining levels are more likely to get larger 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.

Chiselling granite
By using a chisel, the player can split the larger blocks into 500g ones: four 500g blocks from 2 kg, and ten from 5 kg (first by cutting the 5 kg block into two 2 kg and two 500g blocks, and then cutting the 2 kg blocks). 500g blocks are occasionally in great demand because it is used as a tertiary component for infusing Summoning pouches, so mining granite, keeping and banking only the 5 kg blocks, and later chiselling them down to 500g can yield many of these small blocks fairly quickly. If time spent mining is a concern, keeping and banking the 5 kg and 2 kg blocks yields many small blocks almost as fast.

The block must be chiseled one by one, as there is no 'split all' option. This can result in a fair amount of time spent clicking and banking, to get the 500g blocks. Also, a player cannot chisel a block if there is insufficient inventory space to hold all the resulting pieces. One way to reduce the time spent here a bit is to use inventory space efficiently. The chisel must take up one inventory slot, leaving 27 slots for the granite. The following combinations thus allow for most efficient inventory use:
 * Chisel one 5 kg and four 2 kg blocks at a time (26 500g blocks produced).
 * Chisel two 5 kg block and one 2 kg blocks at a time (24 500g blocks produced).
 * Chisel six 2 kg blocks at a time (24 500g blocks produced).

Before the mining update of 9 September 2008, larger blocks could not be chiselled into 500g blocks. Jagex adjusted the price of 2 kg and 5 kg 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.

Profiting from granite


A modest profit can be made by chiselling granite, as one 5 kg blocks typically sells on the Grand Exchange for less than ten 500g blocks do. For example, a player who buys a block of 5 kg granite for 1,622 coins, chisels it into 10 blocks of 500g granite, and sells the blocks for 268 coins each can earn a profit of 968 coins per 5 kg block of granite. (The current Grand Exchange prices are coins for a 5 kg block and  coins for a 500g block.)