Adamant pickaxe

Adamant pickaxe is a tier 1 free-to-play main-hand weapon for melee, with a high alchemy value of 400 coins. The simplest way for an Ironman to get Adamant pickaxe is to buy it: Bob's Brilliant Axes in Lumbridge sells it for 6,680 coins, and 2 other shops stock it too.

“An adamant pickaxe.”

Free-to-playTradeable (not for Ironmen)High alch 400 gp

Updated 9 October 2026. Sources from the RuneScape Wiki's drop, shop and recipe data (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0), checked 2026-10-09. Item sprite © Jagex.

Ironman verdict

You can also make it yourself: it takes 40 Smithing and gives 340 Smithing XP, using 2 × Adamant bar. Where the materials come from: Adamant bar (made with 40 Smithing). Making ten takes 20 × Adamant bar and gives 3,400 Smithing XP. Reaching level 40 Smithing takes 37,224 XP in total; the Smithing calculator counts the actions and materials to any target, and the Smithing guide has the Ironman training route. 2 recipes use Adamant pickaxe, including Adamant pickaxe + 1 and Gilded adamant pickaxe. It is worn in the main-hand weapon slot at tier 1 as melee gear; compare it with every other piece on the Main-hand weapons list. Adamant pickaxe is available on free-to-play worlds too. It is tradeable on normal accounts, but an Ironman cannot use the Grand Exchange or trade for it, so the sources on this page are the whole list. High Alchemy turns one into 400 coins, which is 6,280 less than the shop price, so buying it to alch does not pay.