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Steel pickaxe

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Steel pickaxe
F2P F Buy limit: 40 per 4 hours
Live flip margin +13 GP
13.0% ROI per flip · up to 520 GP per buy-limit cycle
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If you bought your full buy limit on Steel pickaxe right now, you'd clear roughly 520 GP after the 2% GE tax. That's the ceiling. The actual margin shifts every few minutes, especially after Wednesday updates and weekend supply spikes.

Used for mining. Tradeable on F2P accounts too. Buy limit 40 per 4 hours. A 2% Grand Exchange tax applies to sales, capped at 5,000,000 GP per item.

How Steel pickaxe trades on the Grand Exchange

A small buy limit means the margin per unit has to be worth committing a slot to. It is F2P tradeable, so both F2P and members accounts can see and trade it. Its margin has been volatile in the last hour, so treat this snapshot with extra caution and check the live numbers first.

Live flip margin

Buy at
100
Sell at
115
Margin (after tax)
+13
ROI
+13.0%
Daily volume
360
Profit per limit
520
High alch
300
Flip grade
F
Margin stability
Volatile

Don't miss the next move on Steel pickaxe

The margin can swing 30% within an hour after an OSRS update or a weekend supply shift. Set a price alert in GE IQ and you'll get pinged the second it crosses your target, no manual checking needed.

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Prices snapshot from the official RuneScape Wiki API. Refreshed at build time: Wed, 02 Sep 2026 10:37:59 GMT. Open the tool for live prices that refresh every two minutes.

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