Lava Maze runite mining site
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| Also known as? | Rune rocks, 46 Wilderness mine |
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| Location | Northwest of the Lava maze |
| Members only? | No |
| Rocks | 2 Rune rocks |
| Monsters | None |
| Requirements | None |
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Also called the Wilderness Runite mine, or more often simply as rune rocks, this was the only mining site in free worlds with available runite ore before the release of the Mining Guild resource dungeon. Therefore the rune ore is rarely left spawned, as rune-miners often time the spawns and wait for the ore to spawn in anticipation. The mine is located north of both the Bandit camp mining site and the lava maze and is surrounded by multi-combat areas of the Wilderness, although the mine area itself is not multi-combat. There are two rocks here which contain runite ore. Although the area around the rune rocks is crawling with aggressive Deadly red spiders, players will rarely be attacked by the spiders when standing next to the runite. World switching is useful here, to fill up with ore, as it takes 12.5–25 minutes for the runite to respawn. If players have any food left, they may need it on the way back. It is also a good idea to run using CONTROL-Click on the minimap when players need to escape fromplayer killers, and not waste energy with permanent run selected.
Player killing is a nice option here, as foes cannot teleport until they are either running to the Oblesks, Mage Arena, or teleporting at level 20-30 wilderness. Along with that, you can easily pile unsuspecting players who are looking for runite ore to mine and kill them.
A common practice among miners at this mine was the use of "scouts", which are low-level accounts. The miners first took these accounts to see if the mine contains any runite or player killers.