Gold bar

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Gold bar
Detailed
Release	8 May 2001 (Update)
Members	No
Members	No
Quest item	No
Quest item	No
Tradeable	Yes
Tradeable	Yes
Equipable	No
Equipable	No
Stackable	No
Stackable	No
Disassembly	Unknown
Disassembly	Unknown
Value	Unknown
Value	Unknown
High Alchemy	180 coins
High Alchemy	180 coins
Low Alchemy	120 coins
Low Alchemy	120 coins
Destroy	Drop
On death	Unknown
On death	Unknown
On death	Unknown
Exchange	1,168 coins (info)
Buy limit	10,000
Weight	1.814 kg
Examine	It's a bar of gold. Used in Crafting (5).
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A Gold bar is a bar of refined gold created through the Smithing skill at level 40 by using a gold ore with a furnace, or by casting Superheat item on a gold ore. This normally gives 22.5 Smithing experience per bar, but if the goldsmith gauntlets from the Family Crest quest are worn, the experience is boosted to 56.2 per bar. Smelting gold will not fill any type of smithing urn.

Note: With addition of morphic tools giving bonus exp, it is possible to get 102 exp per bar with gauntlets and bonus exp given by playing stealing creation.

Gold bars cannot be made into weapons and armour as other bars can. Instead, the primary use of gold bars is to create jewellery with the Crafting skill. To craft gold bars into jewellery, players must use a gold bar on a furnace with the proper mould in their inventory or toolbelt. If players wish to craft jewellery with gems inset, they must also have the gems in their inventory, but it must be cut.

Apart from jewellery, gold bars can be used to create gold helmets, which are used in the Between a Rock... quest to access Dondakan's mine, and gold bowls which are used in the Legends' Quest. Despite their name, gold leaves used in Construction cannot be made by players in any way, and can only be purchased from the Stonemason in Keldagrim. Likewise, gold bars cannot be used to make gold trimmed armour or gilded armour.

Gold bars can also be bought from the Grand Exchange. Another way to obtain them is to loot eclectic implings, which can occasionally be looted for 5 noted gold bars. The noted form can also sometimes be found inside barrels.

There is also a gold bar respawn underneath the western Varrock bank that can be obtained by casting Telekinetic Grab.

Creating

Required materials:
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Production JSON:
{ "product": "Gold bar", "image": "[[File:Gold bar.png|link=Gold bar]]", "mats": [ { "name": "Gold ore", "quantity": "1", "image": "Gold ore.png" } ], "skill": "Smithing", "level": "40" }

Gold bar

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22.5 XP		-		1,168
Requirements
Smithing level				40
Members only				No
Materials
Item		Quantity	Price	Total
	Gold ore	1	587	587

Dropping monsters

Levels 1 to 24

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here.

Source	Combat level	Quantity	Rarity
Rogue (pickpocketing only)	15	1	Uncommon
Cave slime	23	1	Rare
Minotaur	12; 27	1	Rare
Imp	2; 7	1	Very rare
Thief	16	1	Very rare

Levels 25 to 99

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here.

Source	Combat level	Quantity	Rarity
Gnoeals	84; 93	1	Common
Mummy	84; 96; 103; 125	1	Common
Dried zombie	89; 94; 110	1	Common
Minotaur	12; 27	1	Rare
Undead troll	74; 100; 125	1 (noted)	Very rare

Levels 100 and above

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here.

Source	Combat level	Quantity	Rarity
Mummy	84; 96; 103; 125	1	Common
Dried zombie	89; 94; 110	1	Common
Nechryael	115	1	Uncommon
Elite black knight	138	1–4	Rare
Elite dark warrior	122	1 (noted)	Rare
Skeleton warlord	132	1	Very rare
Tyras guard	110	1	Very rare
Undead troll	74; 100; 125	1 (noted)	Very rare

Value

A gold ore is worth 587 coins, while a gold bar is worth 1168 coins. Thus, buying a gold ore and smelting it into a gold bar, then selling it, results in a loss of −581 coins. Despite the loss involved, many players buy gold ores and smelt them, especially while using the goldsmith gauntlets, as an efficient method of training Smithing. Doing this results in a higher rate of experience than smelting rune bars.

With a necklace (F2P) or bracelet mould (members) in your toolbelt you can smelt the gold bars into gold necklaces (F2P) or bracelets (members) and sell at the GE considerably cutting the loss for smelting the ore. This will yield slower Smithing experience but provide some Crafting experience. A gold necklace is worth 987 coins and gold bracelet is worth 617 coins. The table below displayed the profit/loss from creating the gold jewellery.

A Gold bracelet can be sold to Grum's Gold Exchange in Port Sarim for 165 coins each. The Rogue after completing Summer's End will always pay the Low alchemy price of 220 coins. These are great for minimising losses from smithing gold ores into gold bars provided you can sell them to the Rogue.

Item	Grand Exchange value	Profit/loss started with Gold ore	Profit/loss started with Gold bar
Gold ring	1,207	620	39
Gold necklace	987	400	−181
Gold bracelet	617	30	−551
Gold amulet	901	314	−267

You can also buy the bars directly from the Grand Exchange and smelt them to almost double your investment for necklace making or get even more from bracelet making. This will give modest Crafting experience.

Trivia

• Though the bar is gold, it cannot be used to smith or craft gold coins.