Pickaxe

Primary type	Stab
Secondary type	Crush
Speed

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Pickaxes (often abbreviated as picks) are used to mine any type of ore in Gielinor. Pickaxes can either be held in the inventory or wielded; but, to wield a pickaxe, the wielder's Attack level must be high enough to wield the metal. Wielding the pickaxe provides extra space in the inventory. This is useful when mining for a profit, as one extra ore can be held.

Maintenance

There is a possibility that players will need to repair their pickaxe only if it has been damaged during the exploding rock random event. In this situation, players will have to visit Nurmof in the Dwarven Mine or Bob at the Lumbridge axe shop to repair it for a small cost. Players also used to find their Pickaxe head flying off their handle, which they then needed to pick up and rejoin to the handle.

Pickaxes

Image	Pickaxe	Mining level	Shop price
	Bronze pickaxe	1	1 coin at Nurmof and Bob
	Iron pickaxe	1	140 coins at Nurmof
	Steel pickaxe	6	500 coins at Nurmof
	Mithril pickaxe	21	1,300 coins at Nurmof
	Adamant pickaxe	31	3,200 coins at Nurmof
	Rune pickaxe	41	32,000 coins at Nurmof
	Dragon pickaxe	61	Not sold

Trivia

• In the early days of RuneScape Classic, there was only one type of pickaxe available, named simply Pickaxe. It looked like a Steel pickaxe and could not be equipped. When different types of pickaxes were released in May 2003, all pickaxes in the bank became the Bronze pickaxes that are commonly found today.