Mining

Mining
Introduction:

Mining is a skill that allows players to extract ores, gems, rune essence and other resources from rocks in mines throughout RuneScape. To increase your Mining level, you will need to mine ore from rocks. All the different ores come from different colored rocks that are roughly based on the ore, e.g. a Mithril rock would be blue in color.

As your Mining level increases, mining will become quicker. When you have mined a rock, the ore will disappear and the rock will become a light gray color and you will then have to wait for it to respawn.

Misc
Gems

Sometimes when you are mining, you will find a gem. These can either be sold or cut and used to craft amulets and the like. The higher the level needed to mine a rock, the higher the chance of finding a gem.

Shilo Village Gem Mine

The rocks randomly yield uncut Jade, Opal, Red Topaz, Sapphire, Emerald, Ruby, Diamond, Dragonstone, and very rarely Onyx.