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Overall, [[smithing]] is not incredibly good for money making in the short term, but good if a player sticks with it long enough. In addition, for players buying bars (because [[Smithing]] [[XP|experience]] is earned faster at the anvil rather than at the furnace), bars of all types are also tertiary ingredients for [[Summoning]], which has increased the demand for most types of bars, causing prices to inflate. When smelting, a [[Coal bag]] is recommended as it holds an extra of 27 [[Coal]]. However for this method a [[Dungeoneering]] level of 35 is needed as well as a [[Mining]] level of 35. However at least level 40-42 [[Dungeoneering]] is needed to obtain the 4000 tokens that will be needed to buy it from the [[Rewards trader]].

There is also a demand for [[steel bar]]s due to their use in [[Construction]] and smelting [[cannonball]]s Due to the relatively low prices for smithable weapons and armour, smithing items isn't recommended to make money, with few exceptions.

{|class="wikitable sortable"
!Name
!Effectiveness
!Smithing level requirement
!Details
!Risk factors
!Other requirements
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|Smelting and smithing bronze
|{{Difficulty|1}}
|Level 1
|You can either mine or buy copper and tin ores to make bronze bars. This gives a profit of 1.5k per inventory plus 85 experience per round.
|None
|Low weight
|-
|Smelting silver
|{{Difficulty|2}}
|Level 20
|[[Silver ore]]s can often be bought at a lower price than [[silver bar]]s on the [[grand exchange|Grand Exchange]], which results in reasonable profit and decent experience gains. Profit can be maximised if the ore is purchased closer to the minimum GE price and then later sold as bars at market or maximum GE price. Currently, purchasing ores at minimum GE price and selling bars at maximum GE price will yield {{Coins|Amount={{#expr:{{#expr:{{GEprice|silver bar|n}}*1.05round0}}-{{#expr:{{GEprice|silver ore|n}}*0.95round0}}}} }} coins difference per silver. Note this is a fairly efficient method to train the [[smithing|Smithing skill]] due to the fact that one can make 28 [[silver bar]]s per trip. A full load of silver will yield {{#expr:13.7*28}} XP compared to {{#expr:17.5*18}} XP for smelting [[steel bar]]s with a [[coal bag]].
|None
|Low weight
|-
|Smelting steel
|{{Difficulty|5}}
|Level 30
|Another way involving Steel Bars is to simply buy large quantities of Iron Ore and Coal (twice as much coal as iron), take them to Al Kharid, and smelt them at the nearby furnace. Using this method, it is possible to smelt around 500 bars per hour, making a profit of {{#expr:{{GEPrice|Steel bar|n}}*500 - {{GEPrice|Iron ore|n|}}*500- {{GEPrice|Coal|n}}*1000}} coins per hour.

By using [[Superheat item]], players can gain up to 100K magic experience per hour, followed by around 35K Smithing experience per hour, resulting in some profit at times.

If a player also has level 35 [[dungeoneering]] and has purchased the [[coal bag]], he may smelt up to 18 steel bars per trip. Doing so will increase the profit up to 120k per hour but is only recommended if the player plans on [[smithing]] for a long period of time or plans on [[smithing]] alot in the future(with coal) as the tokens required to buy the [[coal bag]] can take awhile to acquire.
|Level 14 Scorpions
|43 [[Magic]] if using the [[Superheat item]] method
|-
|Smelting mithril
|{{Difficulty|2}}<br />50k/Hour
|Level 50
|[[Mithril bar]]s sell for {{GEPrice|Mithril bar}} coins each. If the materials (one mithril ore and four coal per bar) are purchased, you can earn up to {{#expr:{{GEPrice|Mithril bar|n}} - {{GEPrice|Mithril ore|n}} - {{GEPrice|Coal|n}}*4}} coins per bar using the Falador or Al Kharid furnaces. At five bars per trip, you can make about {{#expr:300*({{GEPrice|Mithril bar|n}} - {{GEPrice|Mithril ore|n}} - {{GEPrice|Coal|n}}*4)}} coins and 9,000 experience per hour. Superheating the ore can be done with this method too resulting in a {{#expr:({{GEPrice|Mithril bar|n}} - {{GEPrice|Mithril ore|n}} - {{GEPrice|Coal|n}}*4) - {{GEPrice|Nature rune|n}}}} coin profit.
|None
|43 Magic if using the [[Superheat item]] method
|-
|Smelting adamantite
|{{Difficulty|0}}<br />-1k/Hour
|Level 70
|[[Adamant bar]]s sell for {{GEPrice|Adamant bar}} coins each, and require one [[adamantite ore]] and six coal per bar. Purchasing the materials then selling the bars gives a profit of {{#expr:{{GEPrice|Adamant bar|n}} - {{GEPrice|Adamantite ore|n}} - {{GEPrice|Coal}}*6}} coins per bar. At four bars per trip, you can make about {{#expr:240*({{GEPrice|Adamant bar|n}} - {{GEPrice|Adamantite ore|n}} - {{GEPrice|Coal}}*6)}} coins and 9,000 experience per hour. Superheating the ore can be done with this method too resulting in a {{#expr:({{GEPrice|Adamant bar|n}} - {{GEPrice|Adamantite ore|n}} - {{GEPrice|Coal|n}}*6) - {{GEPrice|Nature rune|n}}}} coin profit.(This is currently a bad way of making money, or losing it)
|None
| 43 Magic if using the [[Superheat item]] method
|-
|Smelting rune
|{{Difficulty|3}}
|Level 85
|Smelting [[Rune bar]]s from eight (8) [[coal ore]]s and one (1) [[runite ore]] yields approximately {{#expr: {{:Exchange:Rune bar|View=price}} - {{:Exchange:Runite ore|View=price}} - (8 * {{:Exchange:Coal|View=price}} ) }} coins profit per Rune bar smelted. However, due to the difficult nature of obtaining the ores yourself, and the high pre-requisite price required, combined with being unable to smelt many Rune bars at once due to inventory restrictions, this method should only be used for players who already have a significant amount of cash before starting. Superheating the ore can be useful because of the low amount of bars per trip.
|None
|43 Magic if using the [[Superheat item]] method
|}

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