Unidentified minerals

Unidentified minerals
Released							22 June 2017 (Update)
Members							Yes
Quest item							No
Properties
Tradeable							No
Equipable							No
Stackable							Yes
Noteable							No
Options							Drop
Examine							I wonder if someone can identify these.
Values
Value							50 coins
High alch							30 coins
Low alch							20 coins
Weight							0 kg
Advanced data
Item ID							21341

Unidentified minerals are rare minerals obtained by mining rocks in the members' area of the Mining Guild. They can be traded in for mining gloves, superior mining gloves, soft clay packs, and bags full of gems at Belona's Mining Guild Mineral Exchange. Players can also pay 40 minerals to combine both gloves into a pair of expert mining gloves.

The infernal pickaxe's ore-consuming effect will NOT negate the ability to receive unidentified minerals upon activation.

At current Grand Exchange prices, the item that is worth the most coins per mineral spent is a per unidentified mineral.

Obtaining

The chances of obtaining one are dependent on the rock they are obtained from:

Rock	Chance
Iron rocks	1/100
Coal rocks	1/60
Mithril rocks	1/40
Adamantite rocks	1/30
Runite rocks	1/20
Amethyst crystals	1/20

Additional resources granted by mining enhancers do not provide extra unidentified minerals when their effects are triggered. Mining gloves, however, do assist in finding minerals, albeit indirectly: as minerals can be obtained whenever ore is successfully mined, the additional harvest opportunities granted by the gloves also serve to provide additional chances to find minerals from a given rock before it depletes, reducing both the click-intensity of mining as well as the amount of time spent moving between rocks.

Power-mining iron rocks is the fastest but most click-intensive method of gathering unidentified minerals. The ore can either be banked or dropped, although mining the 3 rocks closest to the bank and depositing the ore is the least tedious option. Wearing any tier of mining gloves will improve the collection process, and additionally increase rates if not used at a 3-rock spot.

A slower but a less click-intensive method is mining coal rocks. If the coal is being banked, a coal bag can be used to hold an additional 27 coal (36 if a Smithing cape is equipped). Wearing any tier of mining gloves will increase rates due to spending less time moving between rocks.

Unidentified minerals obtained while your inventory is full will drop to the floor.

You can also stop receiving unidentified minerals by using the right-click option on Belona, or speaking to her and choosing the "I don't want to receive minerals." option. You can start receiving them by talking to her again and choosing the "I would like to receive minerals." option.

Exchanging

Main article: Mining Guild Mineral Exchange

At current values based on the price of soft clay, each unidentified minerals is worth 1,090.00. Likewise, based on the average value of bags full of gems, each unidentified minerals is worth .

In addition to the actual shop stock, you can also speak with Belona to exchange a pair of mining gloves, a pair of superior mining gloves, and 40 unidentified minerals for a pair of expert mining gloves.

Item		Cost	GE Value	GP /
	Bag full of gems	20	0
	Soft clay pack	10	10,900	1,090.00
	Mining gloves	40	N/A	N/A
	Superior mining gloves	100	N/A	N/A

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