Copper ore

Copper oreCopper ore

"Copper" redirects here. For the rock that copper ore is mined from, see Copper rock.

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Copper ore
Release																				4 January 2001 (Update)
Members																				No
Quest item																				No
Properties
Tradeable																				Yes
Equipable																				No
Stackable																				No
Disassembly																				Yes
Noteable																				Yes
Destroy																				Drop
Examine																				Used in Smithing (1).
Values
Value																				17 coins
High alch																				10 coins
Low alch																				6 coins
On death																				Always kept outside dangerous area
Weight																				2.267 kg
Grand Exchange
Exchange																				885 coins (info)
Buy limit																				25,000
Volume																				116,064
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Advanced data
Item ID																				436
Links																				MRID • recipe

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Copper ore is an ore that can be obtained through mining copper rocks, requiring level 1 Mining, in various places around RuneScape. Copper ore, along with tin ore, is one of the first ores a player can mine using the Mining skill.

Copper is required to craft bronze bars. As players increase their Mining level and use higher tier pickaxes, they are able to mine copper at quicker rates.

Copper, like other mining resources, can be stored in an ore box. 100 copper can be stored in a bronze ore box or higher. This capacity be increased by 20 at level 7 Mining and a further 20 with the completion of the Everything Is Oresome achievement.

Mining

Copper ore
Mining level		1		Critical hit chance
Source		Copper rock		15%	20%
Core				2	8
Stone spirit		Copper		Rockertunity multiplier
Geode		Sedimentary		x5	x6
Rock stats				6	-
Durability		40		Double ore chance
Hardness		0		5%	10%
Multiplier		0.66		4	5
Base ore		1		Geode chance
Varrock armour double chance				10%	15%
		4%		-	-

Mine locations

Mine	Members	Amount	Requirements
Ashdale Mine		2	N/A
Burthorpe mine		5	N/A
Desert Mining Camp		4	The Tourist Trap
Dwarven bronze mine		3	N/A
Lumbridge south-east mine		3	N/A
Rimmington mine		3	N/A
Tutorial Island mine		5	Tutorial Island (partial completion)
Varrock south-east mine		2	N/A
Varrock south-west mine		3	N/A
Warforge south tunnel mine		1	Out of the Crucible

Burthorpe mine is the best spot to mine copper as it is very close to a metal bank (furnace, anvil or forge) at the entrance, followed by the Ashdale mine.

Varrock South-West mine is also close to a bank (members only) at May's Quest Caravan once the bank chest is unlocked from the Hub track for a cumulative cost of 125 quest points.

Products

This is an auto-generated list (update now), and shows the first 100 items alphabetically. For all items, click here.

Product		Members	Skills	Experience	Materials	GE price
	1 × Bronze bar		1	1	1 × Copper ore 1 × Tin ore	2,099
	1 × Bronze bar (Superheat Item)		1 43	1 53	1 × Copper ore 1 × Tin ore 1 × Nature rune 4 × Fire rune	2,099
	1 × Divine bronze rock		1	1.2	20 × Pale energy 10 × Copper ore 10 × Tin ore	N/A
	1 × Iron ore (transmutation from Copper ore)		15	3.7	2 × Flickering energy 5 × Copper ore	831

Item sources

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here.

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Copper rock	1	1	Always
Divine bronze rock		1	Common
New Varrock guard captain	104	1	Common
Timid jadinko	14	1 (noted)	Uncommon
Zombie (New Varrock)	1	1	4/128
Zombie (New Varrock)	1	1	Unknown

Shop locations

Seller	Location	Number in stock	Price sold at	Price bought at	Members
Drogo's Mining Emporium	Dwarven Mines	0	17	5
Ore Store	Jatizso	10	17	5
Sani's Orefully Affordable Store	New Varrock	10	17	6
TzHaar-Hur-Lek's Ore and Gem Store	TzHaar City	5	25	N/A

Disassembly

Copper ore
Disassembly category	Ores
Disassembly XP	0.1
Item quantity required	1
Material count	1
Base junk chance	?  98.9% Your actual junk chance depends on your junk chance reduction researched. See the table below for all values, and Junk for more information. Reduction Junk chance None 1 98.9% 1 34 98.0 2 49 96.0 3 64 94.0 4 69 92.0 5 78 90.0 6 83 87.1 7 91 85.1 8 95 82.1 9 105 79.2
Common materials
Simple parts	1/1

Update history

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• update 4 January 2001 (Update):
  • Added to game.