User blog comment:Alchimous/Mithril is.../@comment-25345260-20130227232017/@comment-24180511-20130227233010

Theorestically, with the right refining and working, you can make higher quality any metal. I'm simply referring to a standard quality in both. It's logical to say that if you knew the righ process, perhaps with some magic in it(fantasy, after all), you could get mithril capable of out performing runite.