The first part of smithing is smelting, in which you melt your ores into metal bars. Most ores must be smelted along with another ore, except for iron, which has a 50% chance of being successful. To smelt an ore, you must go to a furnace. Click on the ore in your inventory, then click on the furnace, and you have a bar.
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As you can see their are 3 main mines in Runescape, Scorpion Pit, Dwarven Mine, and Edgeville Dungeon. Of these, two are widely used because of their ease in transport, Edgeville is in a dungeon, of course. However, if you know you will be mining one of a certain type of rock that can be found elsewhere, I recommend to mine at the smaller, less crowded mines.
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