Glintstone Miner | Elden Ring Wiki

Glintstone Miner is a Humanoid Enemy in Elden Ring. Crystallized miners, armed with a special staff for mining crystals found in tunnels. Glintstone Miners are equipped with a staff that utilizes Digger Sorceries to emit a drill of sorts, allowing them to cut and harvest crystals at these tunnels.

See Glintstone Miner Lore

The ever-working miners of the tunnels, tasked with harvesting crystals from deep beneath. Their staff allows them to summon a drill to shatter rock and enemies alike.

Elden Ring Glintstone Miner Locations

Where to Find Glintstone Miner:

Elden Ring Glintstone Miner Drops

Item	Drop Rate	Additional Info
Runes	100%	155 - 569
Digger's Staff	2.00% - 4.00%	N/A
Somber Smithing Stone [2]	1.00% - 2.00%	N/A
Somber Smithing Stone [3]	1.00% - 4.00%	N/A
Somber Smithing Stone [4]	1.00% - 2.00%	N/A
Somber Smithing Stone [5]	1.00%	N/A
Glintstone Scrap	6.00% - 8.00%	N/A
Large Glintstone Scrap	3.00% - 4.00%	N/A

Glintstone Miner Notes & Tips

Glintstone Miner and other enemies similar to them are weak to fire damage. As a Miner enemy, it is also weak to strike damage due to their tough skin.
Be ware of the follow-up attack of Shatter Earth, as it can easily catch players off guard.
In combat, they utilize Glintstone Scraps and Large Glintstone Scraps.
Some are able to cast the Glintstone Pebble sorcery.
A Glintstone Miner ambushes you in Sellia Crystal Tunnel using the Rock Blaster sorcery.

Glintstone Miner Lore

Lore Items Related to Glintstone Miner

Explosive Stone

A small stone with a smoldering core.

Explodes when thrown at enemies, inflicting fire damage.

Miners employ these stones as tools for rock blasting, but have long forgotten how to craft them'.

Poisoned Stone

A small stone with a poisoned core.

Throw at enemies to cause buildup of poison.

Miners employ these stones as tools for pest extermination, but have long forgotten how to craft them'.

Digger's Staff

Staff of a sorcerer-miner who extracts glintstone from crystal tunnels. The staff itself is a tool used to mine, and the ferrule is also embedded with a glintstone.

Boosts the power of Stonedigger sorceries'.

Shatter Earth

One of the glintstone sorceries of the Academy of Raya Lucaria.

Imbues the ferrule of the caster's staff with magic, then thrusts it into the ground to create a magical shockwave.
Allows one follow-up attack.

A Stonedigger sorcery used by the glintstone miners of the crystal tunnel. At the academy, use of this sorcery was a stigma that marked out failed scholars.