Adamantite ore

Adamantite ore

Release date	4 January 2001 (Update)
Members?	No
Quest item?	No
Tradeable?	Yes
Equipable?	No
Stacks?	No
High Alch	240 coins
Low Alch	160 coins
Destroy	Drop
Store price	1,300 coins
Examine	This needs refining.
Weight	2.7 kg

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"Adamantite" redirects here. For the rock that adamantite ore is mined from, see Adamantite rock.

Adamantite ore is obtained through the Mining skill in various places throughout RuneScape by mining Adamantite rocks. It can be smelted along with six coal through the Smithing skill to form an Adamant bar, which can then be smithed into various types of adamant weapons and armour.

Adamantite ore can be mined with a Mining level of 70 or higher, granting 95 Mining experience.

Dropping monsters

Levels 1 to 99

Monster	Combat level	Quantity	Rarity
Slagilith	92	1	1Always
Green dragon	79	1	2Common
Ogre statue	75	2	2Common
Warped terrorbird	81,143	1	2Common
Basilisk	61	1	3Uncommon
Cockroach soldier	83	1 (noted)	3Uncommon
Warped tortoise	96	1	3Uncommon
Grotworm	91	1	3Uncommon
Mighty banshee	90	1	4Rare
Elf warrior	90, 108	1	5Very rare
Goblin statue	50	1	5Very rare
Ork statue	63	1–5	5Very rare

Levels 100 and above

Monster	Combat level	Quantity	Rarity
Corporeal Beast	785	125 (noted)	2Common
General Graardor	624	16–20 (noted)	2Common
Ivory statue	108	1	2Common
Living rock protector	120	1 (noted)	2Common
Living rock striker	140	1	2Common
Ourg statue	200	3	2Common
Terror dog	100,110	1	2Common
Warped terrorbird	81,143	1	2Common
Ivory Gromblod (cursed)	108	1	3Uncommon
Cyclossus	156	1	3Uncommon
Mutated bloodveld	126, 146	1	3Uncommon
Mature Grotworm	167	3 (noted)	3Uncommon
Blue dragon	111	1	4Rare
Elf warrior	90, 108	1	5Very rare

Locations

Free Play Locations

• Al Kharid mine - 2 rocks
• Hobgoblin Mine - 8 rocks (WARNING: Beyond Level 30 Wilderness! (35) )
• Dwarven Mine - 3 rocks
• Edgeville dungeon mine - 2 rocks
• Mining Guild resource dungeon - 4 rocks
• South Crandor mining site - 3 rocks
• West Lumbridge Swamp mining site - 2 rocks

Members Locations

• Abandoned Mine - 18 rocks
• Desert Mining Camp underground mine - 6 rocks
• Grand Tree mine - 3 rocks
• Heroes' Guild mine - 2 rocks
• Jatizso mine - 12 rocks
• Lletya mining site - 7 rocks
• Karamja mining site - 1 rock
• Keldagrim north mine - 10 rocks
• TzHaar mine - 2 rocks
• Deep Wilderness (level 53) site - 1 rock (WARNING! PKers may patrol this site to kill and loot miners!)

The Hobgoblin Mine contains the most free-to-play adamantite rocks, but it is far from a bank, filled with aggressive Hobgoblins, and dangerous since it is in the Wilderness. Hobgoblins will not keep you from mining, but you will still undergo attack from them. Player killers make this even harder as they can attack players who are unprepared. Using a canoe will make accessing this mine much quicker. Even more so for members with a Lava Titan familiar.

The Mining guild resource dungeon, combined with the adamantite rocks in the dwarven mines, make seven rocks that are fairly close together. Utilising the bank deposit box in the dwarven mines resource dungeon makes banking of the collected ores quick. This method requires a Dungeoneering level of 45.

The next best way for free players to mine adamantite ore would be to go to one of the other mines and switch worlds after mining the rocks.

The lowest level of the Abandoned Mine has 13 adamant ore veins, but requires retracing the steps of the Haunted Mine quest to get the glowing fungus. The fungus can be safely dropped while mining to free an inventory slot. The Jatizso members mine is also a good place to mine as there are 11 rocks, however there are ice trolls to worry about, they are decently high levels and the males can hit approximately 170 if you are not wearing yak-hide armour, and the females can throw rocks over the rocks you are mining.

The Isafdar mine is only a decent Adamant mining spot once you have completed Roving Elves and started Mourning's Ends Part I since you will be able to bank at Lletya which is a short run away. The mine is small, only containing the 7 Adamant rocks and is completely unguarded except for a trap at the entrance.

The Keldagrim north mine is a good members place for adamantite ore. It has 10 adamantite rocks and is relatively close to a bank just to the southwest. Completion of the Forgiveness of a Chaos Dwarf quest is required to access this mine.

Respawn rate

Adamantite ore, like all other mined rocks, respawns at a rate directly proportional to the number of people in the rock's RuneScape world. If the world is empty, the ore respawns in 8 minutes; if it is full (with 2000 players), it respawns in 4 minutes. Thus the respawn rate of adamantite ore is

$8-{\frac {x}{500}}$ minutes,

where x is the number of players in the world.

A table of respawn rates is given below.

Players	0	200	400	600	800	1000	1200	1400	1600	1800	2000
Respawn time	8:00	7:36	7:12	6:48	6:24	6:00	5:36	5:12	4:48	4:24	4:00

Trivia

• Adamantite is most likely derived from the word Adamant, which is defined as, "any impenetrably or unyieldingly hard substance".
• Adamant and similar words are used to refer to any especially hard substance, whether composed of diamond, some other gemstone, or some type of metal. Both adamant and diamond derive from the Greek word αδαμας (adamas), meaning "untameable". Adamantite and adamantium are also common variants.
• Adamantite has, throughout ancient history, referred to anything that was made of a very hard material. Virgil describes Tartarus as having a screeching gate protected by columns of solid adamantine.
• Adamantite may be based on Adamantium, a metal from the Marvel comics, the metal covered the Marvel Hero Wolverine's originally bone-claws and skeleton.