Money Making on Runescape Using P2P Mining

Just like literally all skills, making money on Runescape using P2P mining is much more effect than trying to make gold using F2P mining.  In the free to play versions you are limited much more heavily on where you can actually mine ores.  The only real options for mining on a free to play world are in the dwarven mines, but here there are relatively few ores and it's very overcrowded.  You can also mine in to the wilderness, but there's a serious possibility of being attacked by revenants or pkers.  This all means that on a geographical level you're already at a disadvantage, because there are fewer places and all of them are quite far from the banks.  But not only this, because the free to play Runescape world is significantly smaller, there are far more people crammed into those areas which means these areas which are geographically worse are also packed full of players.

Another serious thing you have to consider is that on an equipment basis you're also at a disadvantage because of the advent of the dragon pickaxe.  These are similar to going from the rune hatchet to the dragon hatchet, and there's an immediate advantage in upgrading.  You mine rocks faster and the tool itself is less likely to break which means your job is easier.

Summoning which is only available in members also provides a big advantage in mining probably more than other skills.  To start with unlike the woodcutting skill, many rocks which are mined are much further away from banks which means that a summoning familiar such as a bull ant, terror bird or war tortoise are incredibly useful because they allow you to hold extra items which means each load you bank will have more in it.  If you have a pack yak then you're in an even better position because you can bank items directly from your inventory.  This probably isn't worth it for lower level ores such as iron ore or even mithril, but once you start talking about adamant to rune then you'll be doing yourself a big favour.

Dungeoneering also provides a coal bag as long as you have 35 dungeoneering and you have the tokens to buy the bag.  It holds up to 27 pieces of coal and is useful for both mining coal, and for using the coal for smelting because the coal us used right from the coal bag itself.

The sacred clay pickaxe is also a massive aid in helping you with mining because it gives you double exp while it is still charged.  It starts at 100% and goes down to 0% when it degrades away into nothing, however the exp doesn't go down proportionally with the percentage, it just goes back to normal when the item is lost.  You can expect to use this clay pickaxe for around 20-25 minutes before it's lost and so it can be very useful in training mining.  You can get this item as a reward from stealing creation and it takes around 15-20 minutes to obtain.

Another big help for poorer members comes in the form of the Inferno Adze which is gained from the quest, All Fired Up, and with 41 mining and 92 firemaking allows the member to weild it.  It has the same mining capabilities of the dragon pickaxe, but it also acts as a dragon hatchet too.