Smelting Ores

by: Latona

The most common way to smelt ores into bars is by using a furnace. Al-Kharid is quite a useful furnace to use as it is relatively close to the bank although there are many other furnaces located throughout Runescape.

An alternative way to smelt ores is to use level 43 magic spell. This will give a 100% chance of converting iron ore but also has the benefit of being able to stand and smelt directly in any bank. It is especially useful for smelting Adamantite and Runite ores where your inventory space will only allow 3 of each ore and the coal required per trip.

The table below shows what is required to make each bar on runescape and the experience gained from smelting the resources.

Bar:	Level:	Primary Ore:	Secondary Ore:	Experience:
Bronze	1	Copper	Tin	6
Iron *	15	Iron	-	12.5
Elemental*	20	Elemental	4 Coal	7.5
Silver	20	Silver	-	13.7
Steel	30	2 Coal	Iron	17.5
Gold *	40	Gold	-	22.5
Mithril	50	Mithril	4 Coal	30
Adamantite	70	Adamantite	6 Coal	37.5
Runite	85	Runite	8 Coal	50

* Notes:
- Iron ore has a 50% success rate of being smelted. A ring of forging can be used if smelting iron ore to give 100% rate for 140 ores per ring.
- Elemental ore can smelted during and after completion of Elemental Workshop Quest.
- Gold can be smelted with Goldsmith Gauntlets for 56.2 exp per ore. The Goldsmith Gauntlets are obtained from the Family Crest Quest.

About the Author

Latona is a veteran runescape player and webmaster of this runescape help site as well as submitting several guides and articles including this Smelting Ores Guide.