Iron ore is unrefined iron. A player with a Mining level of 15 or higher can mine iron ore from iron ore rocks found in various mines, granting 35 Mining experience for each ore mined. Iron ore's respawn times differ according to the number of players within a world; on average one respawn takes 10 seconds.
Lower level players often use it to train with, because of the moderate experience, low respawn time, and relatively low required level to mine and smith. If done fast, mining and dropping iron ores can result in 30k exp/hr, one of the fastest methods to train mining.
Dorgesh-Kaan mine is the best place to mine iron incase a person wishes to bank the ores. This requires doing the first subquest of Recipe for Disaster for the bank chest in Lumbridge cellar and The Lost Tribe to gain access to the mine. A light source is needed so you can only mine 27 per trip.
Smelting
Players with 15 or higher Smithing can smelt iron ore into an iron bar by using it on a furnace, granting 12.5 Smithing experience, although there is only a 50% chance that you will be able to get a bar out of it unless smelted while a player is wearing a ring of forging, or is using the Superheat Item spell from a normal spell book, in which case the chance will be 100%. Note: A ring of forging only lasts for 140 smelts. The chance that a player will successfully smelt a piece of iron ore will increase by 1% with each Smithing level, up until the player reaches 45 Smithing, giving the player an 80% chance to smelt the ore.
Trading
Iron ores are usually sold for 50-100 coins. As they are fast to collect it's easy to buy big amounts of them.
Dropping Monsters
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