Mining

Mining is a skill you unlock in Hoenn. Break ores in mining sites for money, items, fossils and rare crafting materials; your mining level unlocks better sites, skill points and milestone rewards up to level 1000.

Unlock mining

Mining starts with the Mining Foreman in Lavaridge House #2 in Lavaridge Town.

**Lavaridge House #2**The Mining Foreman waits here.

**Fiery Path**His team lost their Mining Gear in Fiery Path.Wild Pokémon here

Talk to the Mining Foreman. His team lost their Mining Gear in Fiery Path.
Find the Mining Gear. Pick it up in Fiery Path and hand it to him.
Find the missing miners. He then asks you to find two missing miners: one in the Mt. Chimney Mining Site and one in the Route 111 (Desert) Mining Site. Talk to both.
Buy the kit. Go back to the Foreman with 10,000 F and buy the Miner’s Genesis Kit.
Open the kit. Open it from your Bag. It contains the Mining Toolpad, a Bronze Pickaxe and a Mining Hat (Amethyst).
Equip the pickaxe. Open the Mining Radar with the mining button in the top-right panel, go to the Tools tab and equip the Bronze Pickaxe.

The Mining Radar only opens while the Mining Toolpad is in your bag.

How mining works

Enter a site. Talk to the site’s Mining Guard to go in.
Strike an ore. Walk up to an ore and press Space (or tap it) again and again until it breaks.
Collect the reward. Every ore you break gives 1–2 mining XP, and usually a reward: money, an item or a fossil.

Some ores take more hits than others. A higher mining level (up to 100) and a better pickaxe mean fewer hits.
Sometimes the reward is destroyed as the ore breaks: “Nothing could be recovered from this ore.” You still get 1 XP. Your pickaxe, your level (up to 100) and the Reward Preservation skills make this less likely. It is a little more likely on your second and third attempt at a site in a day.
Finding a Legendary-tier reward is announced in chat.
Auto-Pickaxe (Tools tab, from mining level 5) mines the ore you interact with by itself, but more slowly than mining by hand.
Mining levels go up to 1000. Reaching level 100 takes 9,180 mining XP in all, level 150 takes 19,380 and level 1,000 takes 491,820. The Mining Training skills add XP on top.

The Mining Radar

The Mining Radar has four tabs:

Tab	What it is for
Mining Sites	Every site, its state, your attempts today and the cooldown
Prospector Focus	Choose a focus mode once you have unlocked one (see Prospector Focus)
Milestones	Your level rewards
Tools	Equip your pickaxe and pickaxe skin, and switch Auto-Pickaxe on or off

Mining sites

Each site is its own ore field with its own daily attempts. Sites stay locked until your mining level is high enough.

Site	Entrance	Site type	Mining level
Mt. Chimney Mining Site	Jagged Pass	Foundational Mining Site	Any
Route 111 (Desert) Mining Site	Route 111 (Desert) Mining Site Pass	Foundational Mining Site	Any
Meteor Falls Mining Site	Meteor Falls 1F 2R	Prospector Pit Mining Site	20
Route 112 Mining Site	Route 112 Mining Pass	Prospector Pit Mining Site	20
Route 125 Mining Site	Route 125	Adept Abyss Mining Site	40
Wally's Room Mining Site	Hoenn Victory Road (Wally's Room)	Adept Abyss Mining Site	40
Route 133 Mining Site	Route 133	Mastery Mine	60
Orebound Isle Mining Site	Route 121	Rainbow Ravine	80

What each site looks like inside:

**Mt. Chimney Mining Site**Any mining level.

Seasonal events sometimes add their own mining site. Crews also have a site on Invictus Cliffs; see Crews and Crew Wars.

Daily attempts

Every site gives you 2 attempts a day.
A third attempt unlocks 6 hours after your first attempt on that site.
Attempts reset at the daily reset, midnight UTC.
When every ore in a site is mined, the site is depleted. You can then return to the entrance, or Refresh the site, which costs one attempt.

Ores and rewards

Ores come in six kinds. Higher-tier sites have more of the better ores, and better ores can give rarer rewards.

Ore	Can give
Amethyst	Items: Common · Money: Common
Topaz	Items: Common, Rare · Money: Common, Uncommon · Fossils: Rare
Sapphire	Items: Common, Rare, Very rare · Money: Uncommon, Rare · Fossils: Rare, Very rare
Emerald	Items: Rare, Very rare · Money: Rare, Very rare · Fossils: Rare, Very rare, Ultra rare
Rainbow	Items: Very rare, Ultra rare, Legendary · Money: Ultra rare, Legendary · Fossils: Very rare, Ultra rare, Legendary
Dark	Items: Legendary · Fossils: Legendary

What each reward rarity contains:

Reward	Rarity	Possible rewards
Items	Common	Revive, Poke Ball, Repel, Potion, Full Heal, Soda Pop, Antidote, Awakening, Burn Heal, Blaze Coin
Items	Rare	Galarica Cuff, Big Bamboo Shoot, Unallocated EV Reset, Moomoo Milk, Max Repel, Ultra Ball, Pearl, Stardust, Nugget, Iron, HP Up, Calcium, Gen9 TM028 (Bulldoze), Gen9 TM005 (Mud-Slap), Ether, Hyper Potion, Blaze Coinx5, Splash Plate, Icicle Plate
Items	Very rare	Auspicious Armor, Malicious Armor, Rare Bone, Quick Ball, Full EV Reset, PP Up, Max Ether, Max Potion, IV Potion, Elixir, Rare Candy, Gen9 TM133 (Earth Power), Gen9 TM215 (Scorching Sands), Flame Plate, Earth Plate, Blaze Coinx7
Items	Ultra rare	Toxic Orb, Flame Orb, Max Elixir, Star Piece, Balm Mushroom, Big Pearl, Lure, Master Ball, Full Restore, PP Max, Everstone, Gen9 TM186 (High Horsepower), Gen9 TM084 (Stomping Tantrum), IV Randomizer, Blaze Coinx10
Items	Legendary	Comet Shard, Pearl String, Big Nugget, Metronome, Ability Shield, Loaded Dice, Covert Cloak, Mirror Herb, Punching Glove, Clear Amulet, Booster Energy, Protective Pads, Dracozolt Mount Chest, Arctovish Surf Mount Chest, Cosmog Chest, Moon Core (Dark ore only)
Money	Common	100 F
Money	Uncommon	250 F
Money	Rare	500 F
Money	Very rare	750 F
Money	Ultra rare	1,500 F
Money	Legendary	10,000 F
Fossils	Rare	Claw Fossil, Root Fossil, Cover Fossil
Fossils	Very rare	Armor Fossil, Plume Fossil, Fossilized Fish, Sail Fossil
Fossils	Ultra rare	Skull Fossil, Helix Fossil, Dome Fossil, Fossilized Bird, Fossilized Dino, Fossilized Drake
Fossils	Legendary	Old Amber, Jaw Fossil, Arctozolt Chest, Dracozolt Chest, Prismatic Core

Origin Ore

Every so often an ore starts to resonate and an Origin Ore minigame opens. It is rare, but the longer you go without one, the more likely the next one becomes. You play one of two timing games:

Resonance Strike: tap the ore or press Space when the marker crosses the weak point.
Pressure Break: hold the pressure control, then release inside the clean break band.

Origin Ore minigame with a moving marker, a weak point on the ore and a strikes remaining counter — Resonance Strike: strike when the marker crosses the weak point.

The better you do, the better your reward tier, and a top result can even reach the Legendary tier. If you leave the minigame early, it is used up and gives nothing.

Tier	Possible rewards
Low	Claw Fossil, Heart Scalex2, IV Randomizer, Lure, Pearlx3, Root Fossil, Unallocated EV Reset
Mid	Armor Fossil, Big Nugget, Big Pearl, Cover Fossil, Full EV Reset, IV Randomizerx2, One Time Air Balloonx3, One Time Focus Sashx3, PP Up, Sail Fossil, Star Piece, Unallocated EV Resetx3, 5,000 F
High	Ability Capsule, Comet Shard, Dome Fossil, Fossilized Fish, Full EV Resetx3, Helix Fossil, IV Randomizerx3, 10,000 F, PP Max, Dracozolt Chest, Arctozolt Chest
Legendary	Ability Patch, Cosmog Chest, Jaw Fossil, IV Randomizerx3, Pearl String, Sun Core, Old Amber

The Sun Core from the Legendary tier and the Moon Core from Dark ore are crafting materials for the N-Solarizer and N-Lunarizer. See Crafting.

Fossils

Trade the fossils you dig up with Fossil Maniac Garson in the Fossil Maniac’s House on Route 114, next to Fallarbor Town. He gives you a chest; open it from your Bag (with a Pokémon in your party) to meet the Pokémon.

Bring	You get
Claw Fossil	Anorith Chest
Root Fossil	Lileep Chest
Cover Fossil	Tirtouga Chest
Armor Fossil	Shieldon Chest
Plume Fossil	Archen Chest
Sail Fossil	Amaura Chest
Skull Fossil	Cranidos Chest
Helix Fossil	Omanyte Chest
Dome Fossil	Kabuto Chest
Old Amber	Aerodactyl Chest
Jaw Fossil	Tyrunt Chest
Fossilized Bird + Fossilized Drake	Dracozolt Chest
Fossilized Bird + Fossilized Dino	Arctozolt Chest
Fossilized Fish + Fossilized Drake	Dracovish Chest
Fossilized Fish + Fossilized Dino	Arctovish Chest

The Pokémon from fossil chests can drop the fossil parts you need for better pickaxes (see Pickaxes):

Pickaxe	Fossil Pokémon (the part they drop)
Gold Pickaxe	Anorith (Fossilized Carapace), Lileep (Petalized Coral), Tirtouga (Shell Plate Fragment)
Platinum Pickaxe	Shieldon (Fossilized Crest), Archen (Ancient Wing Fragment), Amaura (Glacial Crest Shard), plus a Fossilized Fish from mining
Diamond Pickaxe	Kabuto (Oceanic Fossil Residue), Omanyte (Spiral Shell Fragment), Tyrunt (Reptilian Fang), Cranidos (Rampaging Jawbone)

Pickaxes

Your pickaxe affects how fast you break ores and how often rewards survive. You start with the Bronze Pickaxe from the Miner’s Genesis Kit. Better pickaxes are crafted with a blueprint from the Blueprint Guru in the Pickaxe Guru House, inside the Route 111 (Desert) Mining Site Pass.

**Pickaxe Guru House**The Blueprint Guru sells pickaxe blueprints and, later, Infernal Sanctum Tickets.

Blueprint	Price (F)	Mining level
Gold Pickaxe Blueprint	100,000	20
Platinum Pickaxe Blueprint	200,000	40
Diamond Pickaxe Blueprint	300,000	60

Each pickaxe also needs Heart Scales, valuables and fossil parts. The blueprint is used up when you craft. The full recipes are on the Crafting page.

Pickaxe skins change only how your pickaxe looks. If you have one, equip it in the Tools tab.

Mining skills

Open Skills in the top-right panel and press Mining at the top to spend mining skill points. The Mining side stays locked, with a reminder of the Mining Foreman, until you have the Mining Toolpad.

You earn 1 point every 5 mining levels up to level 100, plus a bonus point at levels 60, 70, 80, 90 and 100. That is 25 points in total, and no more after level 100.
Each branch’s perks unlock as you put points into it, and every point also needs a mining level.
A full branch takes 12 points (Prospector Focus: 8), so 25 points fill two branches at most. Choose what matters to you.
You get one free reset once you reach mining level 50. Every other reset costs 500 Gems.

Branch	What it does
Mining Technique	Stronger hits: a 3-damage first hit, carry-over damage, critical hits and, with a Diamond Pickaxe, extra damage on every hit
Reward Preservation	Rewards are less likely to be destroyed, especially from Rainbow and Dark ore; with a Diamond Pickaxe, Dark ore rewards are never destroyed
Prospector Focus	Unlocks the focus modes
Travel Pads	Return to a site’s entrance, then warp straight to sites from the Mining Radar
Mining Training	More mining XP: extra XP for every ore, for ores with rewards, for Rainbow and Dark ore, for completed sites and for your first site of the day

Every perk, with the points and mining level it needs, and advice on which branches to pick first, is on the Mining skills page.

Spending points

The top of the window shows your mining level and your points: how many you have to spend, and how many you have earned in all.

Pick a branch. The five branches are listed on the left. Each has a row of pips, one for each perk, and shows how many of its perks you have, such as 2/5.
Pick a perk. The branch’s perks appear as cards with what each one does. A card shows the points spent in the branch out of the points the perk needs, such as 3 / 5. A check marks a perk you have, a star the next one and a lock the rest.
Press Allocate. It puts 1 point into the branch, towards the next perk. The line next to the button says what it costs and how many points you have. If your mining level is too low for that perk, the game tells you.

Skills window on Mining: points to spend at the top, the five branches with their pips on the left, the Mining Technique perks as cards and the Allocate button below them — Pick a branch and a perk, then press Allocate to spend a point.

Reset sits under the branches and shows its price in Gems, or reads Reset (Free) while your free reset is waiting. Before mining level 50, a line under it says when the free reset comes. After you confirm, a reset gives back every point you have spent and turns off your focus mode.

On a phone held sideways, the branches and Reset stay in a column on the left, and your points move up next to the window’s title. Held upright, the branches become a row you scroll sideways, the perks are listed one under the other, and Reset sits at the bottom.

Travel Pads

Travel Pads I lets you return to the entrance of the site you are in. Travel Pads II–V each add a Warp button for two more sites on the Mining Radar’s Mining Sites tab. Which sites each one unlocks, and how to use them, is under Travel Pads on the Mining skills page.

Prospector Focus

A focus mode shifts your mining odds one way and weakens them another. You unlock Tunnel Vision, Greedy Extractor and Claim Jumper with points in Prospector Focus, then choose one on the Mining Radar’s Prospector Focus tab. Only one can be active.

Once you have started mining for the day, your focus is locked until the daily reset at 00:00 UTC. What each mode does is under Prospector Focus on the Mining skills page.

Mining titles and milestones

Your mining level gives you a title in the Mining Radar.

Mining level	Title
1–19	Pebble Pidgey
20–39	Boulder Bulbasaur
40–59	Ore Oddish
60–79	Gem Geodude
80–99	Crystal Onix
100–110	Meteorite Mewtwo
111–120	Celestial Metagross
121–139	Cosmic Diancie
140–160	Primal Groudon
161–1000	Legendary Rayquaza

Milestone rewards arrive the moment you reach the level:

Level	Reward	Details
10	Kabuto Chest	Awarded automatically (x1)
15	Mining Hat (Topaz)	Awarded automatically (x1)
25	Omanyte Chest	Awarded automatically (x1)
30	Mining Hat (Sapphire)	Awarded automatically (x1)
45	Mining Hat (Emerald)	Awarded automatically (x1)
50	Tyrunt Chest	Awarded automatically (x1)
60	Mining Hat (Rainbow)	Awarded automatically (x1)
75	Mining Hat (Dark)	Awarded automatically (x1)
80	Aerodactyl Chest	Awarded automatically (x1)
100	Cosmog Chest	Awarded automatically (x1)
135	Mining Guard Costume Bundle	Awarded automatically (x1)
150	Groudon Access	Unlocked automatically
200	Kabutops Surf Mount Chest	Awarded automatically (x1)
250	Aggron Mount Chest	Awarded automatically (x1)
300	Mining Cart Mount (Silver)	Awarded automatically (x1)
500	Mining Cart Mount (Gold)	Awarded automatically (x1)
750	Mining Guard Prestige Costume Bundle	Awarded automatically (x1)
1000	Mining Cart Mount (Rainbow)	Awarded automatically (x1)

At mining level 500 you can also claim the Magma Vein card style for your Pokémon cards. It is listed with the milestones in the Mining Radar; tap it to open the card style picker and claim it there. See card styles.

Groudon and the Infernal Sanctum

The Infernal Sanctum is a fiery Hoenn map where Groudon appears as a Legendary encounter. See the full Infernal Sanctum spawn list.

Reach mining level 150. This unlocks Groudon Access.
Earn all 8 Hoenn badges. The Blueprint Guru then sells Infernal Sanctum Tickets: 1 hour (7,500 F), 8 hours (50,000 F) or 24 hours (150,000 F).
Use the ticket. Use it from your Bag while you are in Hoenn.

The Infernal Sanctum, a fiery cave in Hoenn — The Infernal Sanctum, where Groudon appears.

Mining skillsEvery mining skill perk, what it needs and which branches to pick first.

CraftingThe Gold, Platinum and Diamond Pickaxe recipes and what the cores are for.

Pokémon chestsHow to open the fossil chests from Fossil Maniac Garson.

Crews and Crew WarsCrew Wars and the crew mining site on Invictus Cliffs.

FishingThe other gathering skill, with its own levels and milestones.