2,500gp
2,238gp
262gp
+212gp
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Price history
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Volume · units traded
- 30D low
- 2,238
- 30D high
- 2,500
- Volatility
- 11.1%
Flip calculator
Includes the 2% Grand Exchange tax
+212gp
+212 per item · +9.47% ROI
- Capital required
- 2,238 gp
- Gross revenue
- 2,500 gp
- GE tax (2%, 50/item)
- − 50 gp
- Break-even sell
- 2,283 gp
Item data
- High alchemy
- 87 gp96.5% below market
- Low alchemy
- 58 gp
- Shop value
- 145 gp
- Weight
- 0.01 kg
- Skill / type
- Melee
- Combat
- Melee · Pickaxe · 5 ticks
- Stack / note
- Not stackable · noteable
- Released
- Jun 12, 2014
About Black pickaxe
The Black pickaxe is a free-to-play weapon in Old School RuneScape.
"Used for mining"
Over the last 30 days it traded between 1,696 and 2,305 gp on the Grand Exchange, averaging 2,055 gp. About 1,174 units changed hands per day. The price is down 17.0% across that window. The Grand Exchange buy limit is 4 every 4 hours. Selling one at the average price costs 41 gp in Grand Exchange tax.
Casting High Level Alchemy returns 87 gp, which is 95.8% below the 30-day average price, so alching a bought one loses money.
How to get Black pickaxe
Only Reward casket (easy) (11/396) and Reward casket (beginner) (11/8,856) drop Black pickaxe.
Dropped by
| Monster | Rarity | Quantity |
|---|---|---|
| Reward casket (easy) | 11/396 | 1 |
| Reward casket (beginner) | 11/8,856 | 1 |
Black pickaxe price history
Daily averages rolled up per month, newest first.
| Month | Average | Low | High | Volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 202612d | 1,959 | 1,696 | 2,204 | 16,264 |
| September 2026 | 2,129 | 1,851 | 2,362 | 29,878 |
| August 2026 | 1,984 | 1,291 | 2,461 | 31,774 |
| July 2026 | 1,802 | 859 | 2,485 | 32,491 |
| June 202621d | 1,548 | 980 | 2,240 | 15,974 |
| May 20262d | 2,226 | 1,558 | 2,893 | 1,307 |
| April 20261d | 2,604 | 2,604 | 2,604 | 447 |
| March 2026 | 3,769 | 2,244 | 5,981 | 26,432 |
| February 2026 | 4,130 | 3,085 | 5,489 | 17,453 |
| January 2026 | 4,826 | 2,680 | 17,563 | 17,768 |
Across 10 months of recorded prices Black pickaxe ranged from 859 gp in July 2026 to 17,563 gp in January 2026, measured over 218 trading days.
The 30-day average of 2,055 gp sits in the lower third of that range.
All prices in gp. Volume counts units traded across both sides of the Grand Exchange.
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