Mining cape

Mining cape

Release date	18 October 2006 (Update)
Members?	Yes
Quest item?	No
Tradeable?	No
Equipable?	Yes
Stacks?	No
High Alch	59,400 coins
Low Alch	39,600 coins
Value	99,000 coins
Destroy	Drop
Store price	99,000 coins (Dwarf (Mining Guild))
Examine	The cape worn by the most skilled miners.
Weight	0.4 kg

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A Mining cape can be purchased for 99,000 coins alongside the Mining hood from a dwarf at the Mining Guild entrance by players who have achieved level 99 Mining. It is the Cape of Accomplishment, also commonly called a skill cape, for the Mining skill. Mining capes are brown-greyish in colour, have the mining skill icon, and have a light blue trim if the player has more than one level 99 skill.

The Mining cape is considered one of the more difficult skillcapes to achieve and is the 5th rarest skillcape after the Slayer cape. However, with the introduction of Mineral deposits, Level 99 has been made significantly easier to obtain.

Bonuses

Hover over image for type												A player wearing a trimmed mining cape	A player performing the Mining cape emote
Attack bonus
0	0	0	0	0
Defence bonus
+9	+9	+9	+9	+9
Other bonuses				Slot
0	0	0%	0 (+4 trimmed)

Gallery

• A player getting 99 Mining.

  A player getting 99 Mining.

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  An untrimmed mining cape.

Trivia

• When first released it was possible for a player to buy a Mining cape even if they did not have 99 Mining. Although it is said that the players with the Mining capes below 99 have them removed, this is not true as a couple of accounts still have them. However, you cannot equip them, and trying to will give you the message "You need level 99 Mining to equip this item."
• The number of players who have achieved 99 mining has increased significiantly since the release of Concentrated gold rocks and Concentrated coal rocks in the Living Rock Caverns as this has allowed for Mining to be done without paying much attention to the game, as opposed to before Concentrated gold and coal rocks where Granite had to be mined (this required constant attention).
• On 25 May 2010 the Mining Cape emote was changed; the animation is smoother and the pickaxe used has been changed from steel to rune.
• The golden shadow of the pickaxe resembles the inferno adze at the top of the down swing.