Iron ore rocks

Iron ore rocks is a protruding rock containing iron. A player with a Mining level of 15 or higher can mine iron ore from rocks found in various mines, granting 35 Mining experience for each ore mined. After being mined, an iron rock takes between 5 and 10 seconds to respawn, which depends on the amount of players on the server.

Free-to-play locations

 * Bandit camp mining site - 16 rocks
 * Dwarven mine - 9 rocks
 * Al Kharid mining site - 8 rocks
 * Rimmington mining site - 6 rocks
 * South-east Varrock mining site - 4 rocks
 * South-west Varrock mining site - 3 rocks
 * Edgeville dungeon mine - 3 rocks
 * North Edgeville mining site - 2 rocks
 * Falador mining site - 3 rocks

Members locations

 * Legends' Guild mining site - 11 rocks
 * Fight Arena mining site - 9 rocks
 * Dorgeshuun mine - 9 rocks
 * Abandoned Mine - 8 rocks
 * Grand Tree mine - 8 rocks
 * Jatizso mine - 7 rocks
 * South-east Ardougne mining site - 6 rocks
 * Ardougne sewers mine - 5 rocks
 * Evil Chicken's Lair - 4 rocks
 * Keldagrim south-west mine - 4 rocks
 * Desert Mining Camp - 3 rocks
 * Piscatoris mining site - 3 rocks
 * Karamja mining site - 1 rock
 * Pirates' Hideout mining site - 1 rock

Respawn rate
Iron ore, like all other mined rocks, respawns at a rate inversely proportional to the number of people in the rock's RuneScape world. If the world is empty, the ore respawns in 10 seconds; if it is full (with 2000 players), it respawns in 5 seconds. Thus the respawn rate of iron ore is
 * $$10-\frac{x}{400}$$ seconds,

where x is the number of players in the world.

A table of respawn rates is given below.

Trivia

 * There was a popular place to mine iron in the mining area near Al Kharid, which has a place in the mine where there are three rocks in a triangle formation, making the player able to mine iron faster due to the three respawns. After the dungeoneering resource dungeon update, the triangle formation changed.
 * There are some spots where the graphics for the iron ore rocks have not been updated, including the mining spot to the East of East Ardougne.

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