21gp
20gp
1gp
+1gp
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Price history
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Volume · units traded
- 30D low
- 20
- 30D high
- 21
- Volatility
- 4.9%
Flip calculator
Includes the 2% Grand Exchange tax
+1gp
+1 per item · +5.00% ROI
- Capital required
- 20 gp
- Gross revenue
- 21 gp
- GE tax (2%, 0/item)
- − 0 gp
- Break-even sell
- 20 gp
Item data
- High alchemy
- 1 gp95.2% below market
- Low alchemy
- 1 gp
- Shop value
- 3 gp
- Weight
- 2.267 kg
- Skill / type
- Mining
- Requires
- Mining 1
- Stack / note
- Not stackable · noteable
- Released
- Jan 4, 2001
About Copper ore
The Copper ore is a free-to-play skilling resource in Old School RuneScape.
"This needs refining"
Over the last 30 days it traded between 12 and 23 gp on the Grand Exchange, averaging 18 gp. About 1,101,078 units changed hands per day. The price is up 75.0% across that window. The Grand Exchange buy limit is 13,000 every 4 hours.
Casting High Level Alchemy returns 1 gp, which is 94.4% below the 30-day average price, so alching a bought one loses money.
How to get Copper ore
58 monsters drop Copper ore, most commonly Adventurer Jon (Always), Copper rocks (Always) and Simple lockbox (10/50). 11 shops sell it, including TzHaar-Hur-Lek's Ore and Gem Store and Drogo's Mining Emporium.
Dropped by
| Monster | Rarity | Quantity |
|---|---|---|
| Adventurer Jon | Always | 20 |
| Copper rocks | Always | 1 |
| Simple lockbox | 10/50 | 2–3 (noted) |
| Body Golem | 6/52 | 3–4 |
| Flawed Golem | 6/52 | 1–2 |
| Mind Golem | 6/52 | 2–3 |
| Soil | 1/12 | 1 |
| Minotaur | 6/101 | 1 (noted) |
| Storage crate | 10/195 | 1 |
| Rock Golem (monster) | 3/78 | 1 |
| Black Guard | 3/128 | 1 |
| Desert Lizard | 3/128 | 1 |
| Dwarf | 3/128 | 1 |
| Giant rockslug | 3/128 | 1 |
| Lizard | 3/128 | 1 |
| Rockslug | 3/128 | 1 |
| Small Lizard | 3/128 | 1 |
| Sulphur Lizard | 3/128 | 10–15 (noted) |
| Sulphur Nagua | 3/128 | 10–15 (noted) |
| Frost Crab | 4/180 | 3 |
38 further monsters drop it less commonly.
Sold in shops
| Shop | Price | Stock |
|---|---|---|
| TzHaar-Hur-Lek's Ore and Gem Store | 3 Tokkul | 5 |
| Drogo's Mining Emporium | 3 gp | 0 |
| Ore store | 3 gp | 20 |
| TzHaar-Hur-Rin's Ore and Gem Store | 3 Tokkul | 25 |
| Hendor's Awesome Ores | 3 gp | 0 |
| Mistrock Mining Supplies | 3 gp | 0 |
| Port Roberts Ore Stall | 3 gp | 20 |
| Deepfin Point Ore Exchange | 3 gp | 40 |
| TzHaar-Hur-Lek's Ore and Gem Store | 4 Tokkul | 5 |
| Ore seller | 4 gp | 100 |
| TzHaar-Hur-Rin's Ore and Gem Store | 4 Tokkul | 25 |
Recipes
Where this item appears in crafting and processing.
Used to make
- 1× Bronze bar from 1× Copper ore, 1× Tin ore
- 1× Bronze bar from 1× Copper ore, 1× Tin ore
- 1× Bronze bar from 1× Copper ore, 1× Tin ore, 1× Nature rune, 4× Fire rune
Copper ore price history
Daily averages rolled up per month, newest first.
| Month | Average | Low | High | Volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 202612d | 21 | 19 | 23 | 17,171,841 |
| September 2026 | 15 | 11 | 18 | 16,934,309 |
| August 2026 | 11 | 10 | 12 | 10,891,757 |
| July 2026 | 12 | 5 | 14 | 9,636,905 |
| June 202621d | 14 | 13 | 15 | 4,076,406 |
| May 20262d | 15 | 15 | 15 | 145,217 |
| April 20261d | 14 | 14 | 14 | 204,481 |
| March 2026 | 13 | 12 | 15 | 3,550,933 |
| February 2026 | 12 | 9 | 14 | 114,971 |
| January 2026 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 17,856 |
Across 10 months of recorded prices Copper ore ranged from 5 gp in July 2026 to 23 gp in October 2026, measured over 218 trading days.
The 30-day average of 18 gp sits in the upper third of that range.
All prices in gp. Volume counts units traded across both sides of the Grand Exchange.
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