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I'm trying to max my smithing at the moment, it's the hardest skill to outright train because its companion skill of Mining overtakes it so fast. I'm on level 88 mining and level 82 smithing.

The plan is to smelt gold bars with an item called the Goldsmith Gauntlets, which more than doubles the experience rate per piece of gold. A full inventory of 28 gold ore grants about 1,500 smithing experience, and to hit 99 I need roughly 180,000 pieces of gold ore.

I tend to use the Motherlode Mine with the Prospector Kit, which is helping my mining level come along, and it also provides a steady stream of both coal and ore. I'm building up a collection of gold ore, and I'm putting up any profits I get from armor sets to buy more gold on the Grand Exchange. But to get 180,000 gold ore, I'll need to fork out over 50 million gold pieces - I have 14 million in savings, and it's not worth cutting into it at this stage.

The good news is that by crafting armor sets, I'm training my smithing level further, which means that when the time does come to enter the smelting phase of this whole scheme, I'll probably need less than 180,000 pieces of gold ore. But it will almost certainly still be over 100,000, which alone is worth between 26 - 30 million depending on how the price fluctuates on the Grand Exchange.