Gem

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Cut gems

Gems can be obtained from mining, trading with other players, and as occasional monster drops. Using the Crafting skill, uncut gems can be cut, combined with precious metals to make jewellery and then enchanted using the Magic skill. Gems can also be cut into gem bolt tips. Wearing a charged Amulet of Glory increases a player's chances of unearthing a gem while mining. However, one does not receive any additional Mining experience if one manages to mine a gem in such a fashion. Note: It has been confirmed that, even as a free player without any amulet, you can obtain multiple gems of different kinds at one time from mining (at least two), but this is extremely rare. In such cases, members wearing a ring of wealth may potentially obtain four or more gems from mining one rock, though this is an even rarer occurence. Furthermore, though uncommon, it is possible for a free player, whilst mining a rock and competing with another for its ore, to lose the ore to the other player, but manage to find a gem all the same.

Any regular mine rocks (clay, copper, iron, coal, etc.) have 1/282 chance to retrieve a gem (sapphire to diamond) when mining (without an amulet of glory).

Gems also are a frequent drop from a wide range of monsters and are occasionally given out as gifts from various random events. Random events and monster drops generally give sapphire, emerald, ruby or a diamond. Dragonstones are dropped only by some of the higher level monsters, although any monster that drops gems and many random events, can drop or give Halves of a key to unlock a chest in Taverley, the contents of which include uncut dragonstone.

The statues in Bandos's throne room frequently drop cut gems from sapphire through diamond, making the room popular for some gem hunters who can kill the statues easily. Completion of The Chosen Commander is required for access to the throne room.

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A character mining a Gem rock in Shilo Village.

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A character cutting a Red topaz.

Gems can also be mined from the gem rocks in the north-west corner of Shilo Village, Lunar Isle Mine, occasionally in Tai Bwo Wannai Cleanup activity, and also in gem rocks in the Al Kharid mining site resource dungeon. Gem rocks contain, in order of descending probability, opal, jade, red topaz, sapphire, emerald, ruby and diamond.

Some gems can be purchased, stolen or sold to a gem shop identified with a red gem icon on the map.

You can also obtain 8 sapphires from mining sapphire rocks in the cave found in the quest The Tale of Muspah quest. However, the rocks can only be mined once, so the sapphires do not respawn inside the rocks.

The original free version gems were officially released in the crafting update in May 2001. In March 2001, Jagex made gems appear while mining, although it was unintentional.

Uncut gems are worth more on the player market than cut gems are, as players are able to get more Crafting experience from cutting gems.

Because of the high price of uncut gems, it is recommended that players keep the gems they find if they are mining lower levelled ores such as coal, but drop them if they are mining runite ore.