Skill · Any level 9 · (helpful)
(85% per practice)
(Profession)
Usageprospectexcavate [deposit]
The 'mining' skill lets you locate and mine rocks, precious stones and ores. Mining is a two step process.
The first step is to prospect a certain terrain in order to locate mineral and ore deposits. The second step is to excavate located deposits and extract the desired mineral or ore from the ground.
Mined items are typically limited to a particular terrain or place, although some things can be found just about anywhere. Many mined items are spell components and can be used for brewing. Certain stones can be used for knapping or lapidary. Semiprecious or precious stones can be cut into gemstones for making jewelry. Ores can be smelted to make ingots for metalworking. Rarely, metals can be found and excavated in native form.
You will need a shovel, mattock, or pick in order to mine.
Mining is hard work and frequent rest may be necessary.
Being well-versed in the thief 'searching' skill increases the speed and ease of finding deposits while prospecting by a small amount.
Known Mines
Sloe
- (Copper) The Greenwood Mine - Northeast of Vemarken
Kordan
Archais
- (Mithril) Dragon Tooth Mines
- (Nickel) (Instanced) Smuggler's Cove Talk to Valgard for directions to hidden entrance
- (Charoite) (Instanced) A charoite mine Terawood are. Requires completion of cartographer quest to enter
- (Raw Earth Tears) (Instanced) Winzigklein the city of the cliff gnomes Terawood area
- (Iron) A rocky pit
- Just east of the Swamp north of Gad's landing, can be found with where landmark, contains limonite
- (Iron) (Instanced) The dwarven stronghold of Runn-Faru
- Lava tunnel on lower levels should be prospected for possible diamonds
- (Lead) (Instanced) The House of Durthang
- The Outer Planes reached from Redferne's Floating Palace are great places to find deposits for the relevant element (SAVE_ZAP in plane of Earth, SAVE_FIRE in plane of fire, etc.) including special deposits like Frostshard
Mainland
- (Iron) Lesser Wallachia Vom mines
- (Lead, Copper) The Ralnoth Guilds Mining Cooperative
- (Lead, Tin) Brightstone Keep
- (Mithril, Coal) Khal-Moria mines
- (Iron) Mines of Minos- by West Naginag
- (Copper, Ziff) Aztec quarry
- (Opals) The Abwal Mine -under Ubar
- (Adamantium) Stone Giant Stronghold
- (Gold) Minetown
Suboria
- (Adamantium) Ryuu Rookery and Mines
Minerals
| Mineral
|
Location
|
Primary
|
Secondary
|
Spell Comp
|
Affinity
|
| Agate |
|
MANA_REGEN |
Random |
Yes |
Lightning
|
| Aetherstone |
|
SHIELD_BLOCK |
PARRY |
Yes |
force fields
|
| Alabaster |
|
CHR |
MANA_REGEN |
Yes |
Curse
|
| Albite |
|
MOV_REGEN |
PARRY |
Yes |
Curse
|
| Amber |
|
ABSORB_ZAP |
AGE |
Yes |
Lightning
|
| Amethyst |
|
SAVE_ZAP |
SAVE_POISON |
Yes |
Healing
|
| Ametrine |
|
SAVE_ZAP |
SPELL_RES |
Yes |
Lightning
|
| Ammolite |
|
MANA_REGEN |
AGE |
Yes |
illusion
|
| Ancient Fossils |
|
AGE |
INT |
Yes |
Shadow
|
| Anhydrite |
|
|
|
Yes |
crystal spear
|
| Anorthite |
|
HIT_POINTS |
|
|
|
| Apataite (Piece Of) |
|
SHIELD BLOCK |
CON |
Yes |
none
|
| Aquamarine |
|
SAVE_POISON |
SAVE_SPELL |
Yes |
prism
|
| Argillite |
|
HP_REGEN |
|
|
|
| Aventurine |
|
SPELL_RES |
SAVE_ZAP |
|
|
| Axinite |
|
SNEAK |
MOV_REGEN |
Yes |
illusion
|
| Basalt |
|
CON |
ARMOR |
|
|
| Black Diamond |
|
ARMOR |
HIT_POINTS |
No |
|
| Black Obsidian |
|
SAVE_FIRE |
HIT_POINTS |
Yes |
Fire
|
| Black Opal |
|
HPREGEN |
LUCK |
|
|
| Block of Ice |
Northern Continent Mountains |
ABSORB_ICE |
|
|
|
| Bloedite |
|
|
|
Yes |
none
|
| Blood Quartz |
Chaos |
SAVE_ZAP |
DAMROLL |
Yes |
Fire
|
| Bloodstone |
|
CON |
MOV_REGEN |
|
|
| Blue Diamond |
NW Lava Room, Ryuu Rookery |
HITROLL |
ATTACK_SPEED |
|
|
| Blue Jade |
|
LUCK |
CAST_ABILITY |
|
|
| Blue Quartz |
Plane of Light |
SAVE_ZAP |
MANA_REGEN |
Yes |
Healing
|
| Blue Topaz |
|
SAVE_BREATH |
SAVE_COLD |
|
|
| Boracite |
|
MANA_REGEN |
DAMROLL |
Yes |
n/a
|
| Borax |
|
|
|
Yes |
preservation
|
| Brimstone |
|
ABSORB_FIRE |
HIT_POINTS |
|
|
| Brown Sandstone |
|
MOVE |
|
|
|
| Brown Standstone |
|
MOVE |
|
Yes |
none
|
| Calcite |
|
INT |
CHR |
Yes |
none
|
| Calthemite |
|
|
|
Yes |
crystal light
|
| Carnelian |
|
WIS |
INT |
Yes |
Blood
|
| Celestine |
|
SAVE_COLD |
MANA_REGEN |
|
|
| Chalk |
|
|
|
Yes |
sanctuary
|
| Charoite |
|
SAVE_SPELL |
|
|
|
| Chert |
|
SAVE_ZAP |
SHIELD_BLOCK |
Yes |
shards
|
| Chocolate Diamond |
Central Lava Room, Ryuu Rookery |
HITROLL |
DAMROLL |
|
|
| Chondodrite |
|
MANA_REGEN |
CAST_ABILITY |
Yes |
none
|
| Chrysoberol |
|
CAST_ABILITY |
|
|
|
| Chrysoberyl |
|
CAST_ABILITY |
CAST_ABILITY |
Yes |
none
|
| Chrysoprase |
|
MOV_REGEN |
MOVE |
Yes |
None
|
| Cinnabar |
|
SAVE_POISON |
HIT_POINTS |
|
|
| Citrine Quartz |
|
SAVE_ZAP |
MANA |
|
|
| Citrine |
|
SAVE_ZAP |
|
Yes |
None
|
| Clear Quartz |
|
SAVE_ZAP |
INT |
Yes |
Lightning
|
| Clinohumite |
|
SAVE_FIRE? |
DODGE? |
Yes |
force fields
|
| Coal |
|
|
|
Yes |
fire
|
| Cuprite |
|
SAVE_ZAP |
HIT_POINTS |
|
|
| Datolite |
|
MOV_REGEN |
ATTACK_SPEED |
Yes |
None
|
| Demon-Eye Stone |
|
ABSORB_FIRE |
SAVE_BREATH |
Yes |
torment
|
| Diatomite |
|
|
|
Yes |
none
|
| Diopside |
|
SPELL_RES |
MANA |
Yes |
Lightning
|
| Diorite |
|
ARMOR |
CON |
|
|
| Dolostone |
|
CON |
PARRY |
Yes |
None
|
| Dragonfang Quartz |
|
SAVE_ZAP |
HITROLL |
Yes |
Healing
|
| Earth Tears |
|
MANA_REGEN |
INT |
|
|
| Ebonite |
|
|
|
Yes |
ground
|
| Emerald |
Griffins, On Emerald dragon in Ryuu |
SAVE_POISON |
SAVE_SPELL |
|
sac
|
| Epidote |
|
DODGE |
DEX |
Yes |
None
|
| Epsomite |
|
|
|
Yes |
healing
|
| Euclase |
|
SAVE_COLD |
ABSORB_ICE |
Yes |
None
|
| Flint |
|
SAVE_ZAP |
|
|
|
| Fluorite |
|
MANA |
|
Yes |
Illusion
|
| Flurorite |
|
MANA |
|
Yes |
crystal spear
|
| Frostshard |
|
ABSORB_ICE |
SAVE_BREATH |
Yes |
ice spells
|
| Fulgurite |
|
|
|
Yes |
ball lightning
|
| Garnet |
|
SAVE_COLD |
SAVE_FIRE |
Yes |
Ice
|
| Gneiss |
|
STR |
PARRY |
|
|
| Golden Beryl |
Brightstone Keep - East Path |
SAVE_POISON |
|
|
|
| Grandidierite |
|
ATTACK_SPEED |
DEX |
Yes |
none
|
| Granite |
|
HIT_POINTS |
|
|
|
| Green Jade |
|
LUCK |
CON |
|
|
| Green Obsidian |
|
SAVE_FIRE |
LUCK |
Yes |
none
|
| Greenstone |
|
PARRY |
ARMOR |
|
|
| Hackmanite |
Mountains |
WIS |
CHR |
|
|
| Halite |
|
|
|
Yes |
protection from demons
|
| Hawk Eye |
|
DEX |
INT |
Yes |
shadow
|
| Hawk-eye |
|
DEX |
INT |
Yes |
None
|
| Heartstone |
|
HP_REGEN |
CON |
|
|
| Hematite |
|
SAVE_SPELL |
HIT_POINTS |
|
|
| Hornblende |
|
HIT_POINTS |
SHIELD_BLOCK |
|
|
| Howlite |
|
SAVE_POISON |
MOV_REGEN |
|
|
| Hubnerite |
|
SAVE_FIRE |
DAMROLL |
Yes |
Divine Aid
|
| Hyalite |
|
ABS_MAGIC |
LUCK |
Yes |
healing
|
| Iolite |
|
ABSORB_MAGIC |
HIT_POINTS |
|
|
| Jasper |
|
HP_REGEN |
STR |
|
|
| Jet |
|
DODGE |
SNEAK |
Yes |
healing
|
| Kunzite |
|
CHR |
MANA_REGEN |
Yes |
Curse
|
| Kyanite |
|
SAVE_COLD |
DAMROLL |
Yes |
Color Spray
|
| Labradorite |
|
SPELL_RES |
CHR |
Yes |
None
|
| Lapis Lazuli |
|
ABSORB_ICE |
MANA |
Yes |
Shards
|
| Larimar |
|
INT |
STR |
|
|
| Lazulite |
|
ABSORB_ICE |
HIT_POINTS |
|
|
| Leucite |
|
HIT_POINTS |
CON |
|
|
| Limestone |
|
MOVE |
SAVE_POISON |
Yes |
None
|
| Mahogany Obsidian |
|
SAVE_FIRE |
CHR |
Yes |
Fire
|
| Marlstone |
|
|
|
Yes |
alteration
|
| Menilite |
|
MOV_REGEN |
LUCK |
|
|
| Mica |
|
|
|
Yes |
force field spells
|
| Microline |
|
CHR |
MOVE |
|
|
| Milky Quartz |
|
SAVE_ZAP |
MOVE |
Yes |
Lightning
|
| Moonstone |
|
MANA_REGEN |
MANA |
Yes |
Harm
|
| Olivine |
|
HIT_POINTS |
SAVE_FIRE |
|
|
| Ominelite |
|
DODGE |
MOV_REGEN |
Yes |
lightning
|
| Onyx |
|
Hide |
DEX |
Yes |
Mass Confusion
|
| Opal |
|
MANA_REGEN |
LUCK |
|
|
| Orange Topaz |
Brown Drake room - Wasteland |
SAVE_BREATH |
SAVE_SPELL |
Yes |
Illusion
|
| Orpiment |
|
|
|
Yes |
none
|
| Padparadsha |
|
MANA_REGEN |
|
|
|
| Padparasche |
Plane of Light |
MANA_REGEN |
SAVE_FIRE |
|
|
| Painite |
|
INT |
|
|
|
| Peat |
|
|
|
Yes |
alteration
|
| Peridot |
|
SAVE_FIRE |
SAVE_ZAP |
Yes |
Fire
|
| Petrified Wood |
|
AGE |
WIS |
Yes |
None
|
| Petrrified Wood |
|
AGE |
WIS |
Yes |
none
|
| Pezottaite |
Voss'Darzi Lair |
MANA regen |
|
|
|
| Pink Jade |
|
LUCK |
WIS |
Yes |
none
|
| Polyhalite |
|
|
|
Yes |
torment
|
| Potash |
|
|
|
Yes |
entangling roots
|
| Potch Opal |
|
MANA |
LUCK |
|
|
| Prehnite |
|
STR |
DEX |
Yes |
None
|
| Proustite |
|
MOV_REGEN |
|
Yes |
Poison
|
| Puddingstone |
|
HP_REGEN |
MANA_REGEN |
Yes |
alteration
|
| Pumice |
|
|
|
Yes |
fatigue
|
| Quartzite |
|
HIT_POINTS |
SAVE_ZAP |
|
|
| Raw Ammolite |
|
MANA_REGEN |
AGE |
Yes |
None
|
| Raw earth Tears |
|
MANA_REGEN |
|
Yes |
Poison
|
| Raw Jet |
|
DODGE |
SNEAK |
Yes |
Healing
|
| Raw Red Jade |
Jade Monastary |
ABSORB_FIRE |
|
|
|
| Raw White Jade |
Jade Monastary |
ABSORB_ZAP |
|
|
|
| Realgar |
|
|
|
Yes |
fire
|
| Red Jade |
|
ABSORB_FIRE |
LUCK |
|
|
| Red Sandstone |
|
CHR |
MOV_REGEN |
|
|
| Red Topaz |
(Archais) Smuggler's Cove |
SAVE_BREATH |
SAVE_ZAP |
? |
? |
|
| Rhyolite |
|
SAVE_FIRE |
|
|
|
| Riftstone |
|
SAVE_BREATH |
MANA_REGEN |
|
|
| Rose Quartz |
|
SAVE_ZAP |
CHR |
Yes |
None
|
| Rough Diamond |
|
|
|
|
|
| Ruby |
Mines under Stone Giants |
SAVE_FIRE |
SAVE_SPELL |
|
|
| Rutile |
|
HIT_POINTS |
HITROLL |
Yes |
Blood
|
| Sal Ammoniac |
|
|
|
|
|
| Saltpeter |
|
|
|
Yes |
fire
|
| Sard |
|
INT |
CHR |
|
|
| Sardonyx |
|
CHR |
WIS |
|
|
| Scapolite |
|
MOVE |
|
Yes |
none
|
| Scapolite |
|
MOVE |
|
Yes |
|
| Selenite |
|
|
|
Yes |
healing
|
| Serpentine |
|
MANA |
HIT_POINTS |
|
|
| Shadow Crystal |
Shadow terrain |
|
|
Yes |
|
| Sheen Obsidian |
(Archais) Cranston Hills Mine |
SAVE_FIRE |
MANA_REGEN |
|
|
| Sillimanite |
Pygmy Island Beach |
MANA |
WIS |
Yes |
Divine Aid
|
| Smoky Quartz |
|
SAVE_ZAP |
DODGE |
Yes |
None
|
| Snowflake Obsidian |
|
ABSORB_FIRE |
MANA |
Yes |
None
|
| Soda Niter |
|
|
|
Yes |
fire spells
|
| Sodalite |
|
HIT_POINTS |
CHR |
|
|
| Sphene |
|
HIT_POINTS |
MANA |
Yes |
None
|
| Spinel |
|
SAVE_SPELL |
|
Yes |
Evil
|
| Starstone |
|
MANA_REGEN |
MOVE |
Yes |
Alteration
|
| Staurolite |
Emerald City |
WIS |
DAMROLL |
Yes |
None
|
| Stibnite |
|
|
|
Yes |
none
|
| Sugilite |
|
DAMROLL |
SAVE_SPELL |
|
|
| Sunstone |
Plane of Light |
ABSORB_FIRE |
SAVE_FIRE |
Yes |
Divine Aid
|
| Sylvite |
|
|
|
Yes |
crystal spear
|
| Taaffeite |
|
DODGE |
|
Yes |
none
|
| Talc (Soapstone) |
|
MANA |
MOVE |
|
|
| Talc |
|
MANA |
|
|
|
| Thulite |
|
SHIELD_BLOCK |
Armor |
Yes |
|
| Tiger-Eye |
|
STR |
CON |
Yes |
Lightning
|
| Tourmaline |
|
MANA |
INT |
Yes |
Healing
|
| Triplite |
|
MOV_REGEN |
STR |
YES |
None
|
| Trona |
|
|
|
Yes |
forcefields
|
| Turquoise |
|
SAVE_POISON |
HP_REGEN |
Yes |
None
|
| Verdite |
|
CON |
WIS |
|
|
| Vermarine |
|
SAVE_ZAP |
WIS |
Yes |
None
|
| Vespine Gas |
|
|
|
Yes |
detect poison
|
| Warpstone |
|
RANDOM |
|
Yes |
torment
|
| Wavellite |
|
CHR |
MANA |
Yes |
None
|
| White Diamond |
Lava rooms |
SAVE_SPELL |
SPELL_RES |
|
|
| White Jade |
|
|
LUCK |
|
|
| White Opal |
|
MANA_REGEN |
LUCK |
|
|
| Yellow Clay |
|
|
|
|
|
| Yellow Diamond |
Lava rooms |
ATTACK_SPEED |
DAMROLL |
|
|
| Zircon |
|
SPELL_RES |
HIT_POINTS |
Yes |
None
|
Ores
Purity
Identifying an ore will show a purity next to the COMPOSITION
Item: 'bar black metal pig iron'
Weight: 45 Size: 1'5"
Type: ORE Composition: IRON most pure
Object is:
Different purities will yield different percentages of metal when smelted:
- most pure: ~100%
- more pure: ~61%
- moderately pure: ~53%
- less pure: ~40%
- least pure: ~25%
List
| Mineral
|
Ore
|
Location
|
Purity
|
| Abhurite
|
Tin
|
|
more pure
|
| Adamite
|
Zinc
|
|
moderately pure
|
| Anglesite
|
Lead
|
| Arjalite
|
Arjale
|
Fire Giant Mines, Imp Caverns - Kordan
|
| Azurite
|
Copper
|
In the G&K copper mine
|
| Bismite
|
Bismuth
|
| Bismuthinite
|
Bismuth
|
| Black Veined
|
Pitch Black Metal
|
Northern Continent Mines
|
| Bornite
|
Copper
|
| Braunite
|
Manganese
|
| Calamine
|
Zinc
|
|
least pure
|
| Cassiterite
|
Tin
|
| Cerussite
|
Lead
|
|
least pure
|
| Chalcocite
|
Copper
|
| Chalcopyrite
|
Copper
|
| Chert
|
Zinc
|
| Cinnabar
|
Quicksilver
|
| Coal
|
Carbon
|
| Cotunnite
|
Lead
|
Lava Rooms
|
moderately pure
|
| Crocoite
|
Lead
|
|
least pure
|
| Cuprite
|
Copper
|
| Engarite
|
Copper
|
| Galena
|
Lead
|
|
more pure
|
| Garnierite
|
Nickel
|
| Gimlite
|
Mithril
|
Undead Dwarf Kingdom
|
| Goethite
|
Iron
|
|
less pure
|
| Greenockite
|
Cadmium
|
| Greigite
|
Iron
|
| Hematite
|
Iron
|
|
more pure
|
| Iodargyrite
|
Silver
|
|
more pure
|
| Iron Pyrite
|
Iron
|
|
least pure
|
| Limonite
|
Iron
|
|
less pure
|
| Loganite
|
Adamantium
|
Ryuu Rookery - On Mine Quartermaster
|
| Nephite
|
Ziff
|
Swamp of Sorrow
|
| Malachite
|
Copper
|
| Maucherite
|
Nickel
|
|
moderately pure
|
| Manganite
|
Manganese
|
| Millerite
|
Nickel
|
| Mithril
|
Mithril
|
|
least pure
|
| Orichalcum
|
Orichalcum
|
Bench in Armorers Room - Atlantis
|
| Psilomelane
|
Manganese
|
| Pyrargyrite
|
Silver
|
|
less pure
|
| Pyrolusite
|
Manganese
|
| Red Veined
|
Blood Red Metal
|
Northern Continent Mines
|
| Rhodochrosite
|
Manganese
|
| Rhodonite
|
Manganese
|
| Selenide
|
Selenium
|
| Siderite
|
Iron
|
| Sphalerite
|
Zinc
|
|
moderately pure
|
| Stannite
|
Tin
|
| Sylvanite
|
Gold
|
| Teallite
|
Tin
|
| Tenorite
|
Copper
|
| Tetrahedrite
|
Copper
|
| Titanium
|
Adamantium
|
Under Stone Giants
|
least pure
|
| Ziff
|
Ziff
|
Swamps of Sorrow Mines, Tolotrid Room
|
| Zinc Spar
|
Zinc
|
| Zincite
|
Zinc
|
|
less pure
|
