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- 't Rooth Quarry (Bemelen), Netherlands · fossil · Permission required
- Acfer meteorite field · mineral · Prohibited / view only
- Adervielle / Borralha Mine, Montalegre · crystal · Gray area
- Adun-Chilon / Borshchovochny (topaz), Transbaikalia · gem · Gray area
- Aginskoe / Sherlovaya Gora, Transbaikalia · gem · Gray area
- Al Hajar / Jabal (Saudi) gold, Mahd adh Dhahab · gold · Prohibited / view only
- Alaverdi / Akhtala Cu, Armenia · mineral · Permission required
- Alaverdi copper district · mineral · Gray area
- Aldan / Inaglinsky chrome-diopside, Yakutia · gem · Permission required
- Aldeia Nova / Guarda district pegmatites · crystal · Gray area
- Ampliacion a Victoria Mine, Navajun · crystal · Permission required
- Andrarum alum shale, Skane, Sweden · fossil · Gray area
- Aredor / Banankoro diamond (Guinea) · gem · Gray area
- Arendal / Froland iron mines · crystal · Gray area
- Argemela Mine, Fundao · crystal · Gray area
- Assarel copper mine, Panagyurishte · mineral · Restricted
- Atherfield / Brook Bay (Isle of Wight) · fossil · Open / legal
- Aznalcollar Mine · mineral · Prohibited / view only
- Baita Bihor skarn, Romania · crystal · Gray area
- Ballygalley / Antrim agate and zeolites, N. Ireland · agate · Gray area
- Banska Stiavnica ore district · mineral · Permission required
- Barkevik, Langesundsfjord · crystal · Permission required
- Bastnas mines, Riddarhyttan · mineral · Gray area
- Bau goldfield, Sarawak, Malaysia · gold · Permission required
- Bellmunt del Priorat mines, Tarragona · mineral · Permission required
- Beregovo / Transcarpathia alunite-gold · mineral · Gray area
- Berikul / Kuznetsk Alatau gold, Russia · gold · Permission required
- Bleiberg (Bad Bleiberg) Pb-Zn district, Carinthia · mineral · Gray area
- Blåvand / Jutland Amber Coast, Denmark · gem · Open / legal
- Boda / Siljan district Silurian reefs (Sweden) · fossil · Gray area
- Bolca (Pesciara) fish beds, Veneto · fossil · Prohibited / view only
- Bolca fish beds, Italy · fossil · Prohibited / view only
- Boliden Mine district · gold · Prohibited / view only
- Bor copper district, Serbia · mineral · Prohibited / view only
- Bornholm agate and fossils, Denmark · agate · Open / legal
- Bornholm, Denmark · mineral · Gray area
- Boulonnais / Ferques Devonian-Jurassic quarries (France) · fossil · Gray area
- Brittany - Ploumanac'h / Trebeurden granite pegmatite, Cotes-d'Armor · crystal · Gray area
- Brosso/Cave del Predil (Raibl) Pb-Zn mine, Friuli · mineral · Gray area
- Brskovo mines, Mojkovac · mineral · Restricted
- Cadzand / Zeeland beaches (Netherlands) · fossil · Open / legal
- Cap Blanc-Nez (Escalles) · fossil · Open / legal
- Cap de Creus pegmatites, Spain · crystal · Gray area
- Cape Blanc-Nez / Boulonnais, France · fossil · Open / legal
- Catoca / Lunda diamond (Angola) · gem · Prohibited / view only
- Cava Bomba / northern Apennines (Italy) · fossil · Gray area
- Cava Montecatini / Libiola copper mine, Liguria · mineral · Gray area
- Caves / Angeac dinosaur site, Charente · fossil · Prohibited / view only
- Cerin lithographic limestone, France · fossil · Prohibited / view only
- Ceske Budejovice moldavite field (Bohemia) · gem · Prohibited / view only
- Ceske Stredohori pyrope (Bohemian garnet) · gem · Gray area
- Cezlak quarry, Pohorje · mineral · Permission required
- Chaillac fluorite-barite mine, Indre · mineral · Gray area
- Chamousira gold mine, Brusson · gold · Prohibited / view only
- Charmouth / Lyme Regis (Jurassic Coast) · fossil · Open / legal
- Chelopech gold-copper mine · gold · Restricted
- Chinguetti / Aouinet meteorite region (Mauritania) · mineral · Gray area
- Colti amber area, Buzau · amber · Restricted
- Compton Bay / Isle of Wight dinosaur coast (UK) · fossil · Open / legal
- Coster / Nismes and Belgian Devonian quarries (Ardennes) · fossil · Gray area
- Cozla fish shales, Piatra Neamt · fossil · Restricted
- Dashkesan (Dashkasan) skarn, Azerbaijan · mineral · Permission required
- Dobsina serpentinite / chromite · crystal · Gray area
- Dodo / Puiva Mine, Subpolar Urals (quartz) · crystal · Permission required
- Dolni Bory pegmatites, Moravia · crystal · Gray area
- Dudley / Castle Hill spoil (West Midlands) · fossil · Gray area
- ENCI quarry / St Pietersberg (Maastricht) · fossil · Gray area
- Eastern Rhodope agate fields, Kardzhali · agate · Gray area
- Elatsite copper pit, Etropole · mineral · Restricted
- Ermakovskoye beryllium deposit · mineral · Gray area
- Erzberg iron mine, Eisenerz, Styria · mineral · Prohibited / view only
- Eugui magnesite quarries · mineral · Restricted
- Evje-Iveland pegmatites · crystal · Permission required
- Falun Mine (Falu Gruva) · mineral · Permission required
- Faxe / Stevns Klint, Denmark · fossil · Open / legal
- Fengtian nephrite, Hualien, Taiwan · gem · Permission required
- Floitental / Ginzling alpine clefts, Zillertal · crystal · Permission required
- Fogo (Cape Verde) volcanic minerals · mineral · Gray area
- Folkestone / Copt Point (Gault Clay) · fossil · Open / legal
- Freisen / St. Wendel agate, Saarland-RLP border · agate · Gray area
- Fur / Mo-clay (Fur Formation), Denmark · fossil · Permission required
- Furka pass area clefts, Uri/Valais · crystal · Permission required
- Gambatesa manganese mine, Liguria · mineral · Permission required
- Garpenberg mine, Sweden · mineral · Prohibited / view only
- Gatumba pegmatites (Rwanda) · mineral · Gray area
- Gdansk / Baltic beach amber · amber · Open / legal
- Gerace / Scontrone, Italy Miocene · fossil · Prohibited / view only
- Glarus / Engi fish slate, Glarus · fossil · Gray area
- Goescheneralp / Damma glacier clefts, Uri · crystal · Permission required
- Gotland Silurian reef fossils, Sweden · fossil · Open / legal
- Gotland Silurian reefs (Sweden) · fossil · Gray area
- Gravberget / Malmberget · mineral · Prohibited / view only
- Grimsel pass area alpine clefts (Gerstenegg/Zinggenstock), Bern · crystal · Permission required
- Grossglockner / Pasterze area alpine clefts, Hohe Tauern · crystal · Prohibited / view only
- Grua / Hadeland limestone fossils, Norway · fossil · Gray area
- Gyongyosoroszi Pb-Zn mine · mineral · Gray area
- Herrengrund (Spania Dolina), Slovakia · crystal · Gray area
- Hiendelaencina silver district · mineral · Gray area
- Horni Slavkov / Krasno tin pegmatites · crystal · Gray area
- Hounde / Poura gold belt (Burkina Faso) · gold · Gray area
- Hvalfjordur / SW Iceland agate and jasper · agate · Gray area
- Idrija mercury mine, Slovenia · mineral · Permission required
- Ilan / Su'ao (Taiwan) marble and quartz · mineral · Gray area
- Ilmen Mountains (Ilmensky) alkaline pegmatites · mineral · Prohibited / view only
- Ilva Mica - Lesu quartz area · crystal · Permission required
- Ipolytarnoc fossil site, Hungary · fossil · Prohibited / view only
- Jachymov (Joachimsthal) silver-uranium mines · mineral · Prohibited / view only
- Jakobsberg Mine, Nordmark · mineral · Gray area
- Juodkrantė Amber Coast, Lithuania · gem · Open / legal
- Kaatiala pegmatite, Kuortane · crystal · Gray area
- Kajaran Cu-Mo porphyry, Armenia · mineral · Permission required
- Kamariza mines, Lavrion · crystal · Gray area
- Kamchatka volcanic sublimates (Tolbachik) · mineral · Prohibited / view only
- Kemi chromite mine · mineral · Prohibited / view only
- Khakassia / Sayan (nephrite jade) · gem · Permission required
- Khibiny Massif · mineral · Gray area
- Khibiny massif (Kirovsk apatite), Kola · mineral · Permission required
- Kigezi / Ntungamo (Uganda) gold and gems · gold · Gray area
- Kimmeria / Xanthi marble minerals · crystal · Gray area
- Kimmeridge Bay (Jurassic Coast) · fossil · Open / legal
- Kimmeridge Bay, Jurassic Coast, England · fossil · Open / legal
- Kinnekulle / Vastergotland Cambro-Silurian, Sweden · fossil · Gray area
- Kinnekulle / Vastergotland Ordovician (Sweden) · fossil · Gray area
- Kiruna iron mine · mineral · Prohibited / view only
- Kolyma placer goldfields · gold · Restricted
- Kolyvan jasper quarries · mineral · Gray area
- Kondyor platinum massif · mineral · Prohibited / view only
- Kono district diamond (Sierra Leone) · gem · Gray area
- Kopaonik Pb-Zn district, Raska · mineral · Restricted
- Kotelnich Permian tetrapods (Vyatka River) · fossil · Prohibited / view only
- Kovdor massif, Kola Peninsula · mineral · Permission required
- Kozakov agate locality · agate · Gray area
- Kragero / Bamble apatite-rutile district · crystal · Gray area
- Kremikovtsi / Iskar gorge, Bulgaria · mineral · Gray area
- Kremnica gold district · gold · Permission required
- Kryvyi Rih iron district · mineral · Prohibited / view only
- Kunda Ordovician Cliff, Estonia · fossil · Gray area
- La Florida mines and El Soplao cave · mineral · Prohibited / view only
- Laki ore field, Droujba mine · mineral · Restricted
- Landsverk pegmatite, Evje · crystal · Permission required
- Langban Mine, Filipstad · mineral · Prohibited / view only
- Langesundsfjord syenite pegmatites · crystal · Permission required
- Larvik larvikite quarries (Tvedalen) · crystal · Permission required
- Las Hoyas (Cuenca) · fossil · Prohibited / view only
- Las Hoyas, Cuenca, Spain · fossil · Prohibited / view only
- Lavrion (Laurium) mining district · crystal · Gray area
- Lece mine, Medvedja · mineral · Restricted
- Ledbury / May Hill Silurian (UK, minor) · fossil · Gray area
- Logrosan / Extremadura tin-phosphate, Spain · crystal · Gray area
- Lovozero massif, Kola · mineral · Permission required
- Luaxe kimberlite · gem · Prohibited / view only
- Luumaki gem beryl area · gem · Gray area
- Lyme Regis / Charmouth, Jurassic Coast, England · fossil · Open / legal
- Lyme... Seatown / Golden Cap (Dorset) · fossil · Open / legal
- Madan ore district (Rhodope) · crystal · Prohibited / view only
- Maderanertal / Fellital clefts, Uri · crystal · Permission required
- Madzharovo Pb-Zn district · mineral · Gray area
- Majdanpek copper mine · mineral · Restricted
- Malkhan pegmatite (tourmaline), Transbaikalia · gem · Permission required
- Malko Tarnovo copper area · mineral · Restricted
- Malo-Bystrinskoe lazurite, Baikal · gem · Gray area
- Malyshevo (Ural emerald mines) · gem · Prohibited / view only
- Mangualde / Cabracao pegmatites · crystal · Gray area
- Mezica lead-zinc mine, Slovenia · crystal · Permission required
- Millstatt / Kreuzeck garnet & staurolite, Carinthia · crystal · Gray area
- Mir kimberlite pipe, Yakutia (diamond) · gem · Prohibited / view only
- Moldova Noua copper district · mineral · Gray area
- Molina de Aragon aragonite locality · crystal · Gray area
- Monte Bolca (Pesciara) · fossil · Prohibited / view only
- Monte Ramazzo / Genova manganese, Liguria · mineral · Gray area
- Monte Somma - Vesuvius, Campania · mineral · Prohibited / view only
- Mortimer Forest / Ludlow Silurian (Shropshire) · fossil · Gray area
- Murzinka pegmatites · crystal · Gray area
- Nagolny Kryazh / Donbas quartz · crystal · Prohibited / view only
- Nagolny Kryazh, Ukraine · mineral · Gray area
- Nalychevo / Kamchatka gold-silver · gold · Permission required
- Naxos emery / Cycladic minerals · crystal · Gray area
- Neudorf mine, Harzgerode, Harz · mineral · Gray area
- Neves-Corvo Mine, Alentejo · mineral · Prohibited / view only
- Nordmark Mn-Fe mines, Filipstad · mineral · Gray area
- Nordmarka / Oslo syenite region · crystal · Gray area
- Norilsk sulfide district · mineral · Prohibited / view only
- Novo Brdo medieval mines · mineral · Restricted
- Nubian Desert (Sudan) gold and beryl · gold · Gray area
- Obuasi / Ashanti goldfields (Ghana) · gold · Prohibited / view only
- Ocna de Fier / Dognecea skarn · crystal · Gray area
- Oman ophiolite (Semail) chromite/rodingite · mineral · Gray area
- Osor Mine, La Selva, Girona · crystal · Prohibited / view only
- Ostra - Lesu Ursului barite area · mineral · Gray area
- Outokumpu Cu deposit · mineral · Gray area
- Pahang / Kelantan gem gravels, Malaysia · gem · Permission required
- Pakri Cliffs, Estonia · fossil · Gray area
- Palanga / Lithuanian Baltic coast amber · amber · Open / legal
- Palanga Amber Coast, Lithuania · gem · Open / legal
- Panasqueira - Barroca Grande adit dumps · crystal · Permission required
- Peris... Llandrindod / Builth Ordovician (Wales) · fossil · Gray area
- Perticara / sulfur mine (Romagna) · mineral · Prohibited / view only
- Piton de la Fournaise (Reunion) olivine · mineral · Prohibited / view only
- Podljubelj arsenic mine, Trzic · mineral · Gray area
- Poullaouen / Huelgoat Pb-Ag mines, Finistere (Brittany) · mineral · Gray area
- Pribram silver-uranium district · mineral · Prohibited / view only
- Racos basalt complex, Persani · mineral · Restricted
- Radoboj fossil site, Hrvatsko Zagorje · fossil · Restricted
- Raub goldfield · gold · Gray area
- Recsk / Matra Mountains ore district · mineral · Gray area
- Reocin zinc mine · mineral · Restricted
- Rhodope / Krushev Dol mine · crystal · Prohibited / view only
- Rio Tinto Mines, Minas de Riotinto · mineral · Gray area
- Rodna Veche lead-zinc mine · mineral · Gray area
- Rogerley Mine, Frosterley, Weardale · crystal · Permission required
- Ronov / Ceska Lipa jasper and agate · agate · Gray area
- Rosen ore field, Medni Rid · mineral · Gray area
- Rudabanya / Nizna Slana Fe-Mn · mineral · Gray area
- Rudabanya, Hungary Fe-Mn · mineral · Gray area
- Rude / Samobor copper-iron, Croatia · mineral · Gray area
- Rudersdorf / Museumspark quarry (Berlin area) · fossil · Gray area
- Rudnik mine, Serbia · crystal · Prohibited / view only
- Rupnica columnar geosite, Papuk · mineral · Prohibited / view only
- Saaremaa / Baltic Klint Ordovician-Silurian (Estonia) · fossil · Gray area
- Sable / Zalas and Holy Cross Mountains (Kielce) · fossil · Gray area
- Saint-Marcel manganese and copper mines · mineral · Gray area
- Saint-Yrieix / Le Bourneix gold district, Haute-Vienne · gold · Prohibited / view only
- Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines silver district, Alsace · mineral · Permission required
- Sala silver mine, Sweden · mineral · Permission required
- Samail ophiolite roadcuts · mineral · Gray area
- Sambian Peninsula amber (Yantarny) · amber · Prohibited / view only
- San Finx tungsten mine, Lousame · mineral · Restricted
- Sao Domingos Mine, Alentejo · mineral · Gray area
- Sasca Montana copper skarn · mineral · Gray area
- Siilinjarvi apatite mine · mineral · Prohibited / view only
- Simandou / Nimba region iron and minerals (Guinea) · mineral · Prohibited / view only
- Sint Geertruid (Rijckholt) Flint, Netherlands · mineral · Prohibited / view only
- Sirenevy Kamen (charoite) · mineral · Prohibited / view only
- Sirenevy Kamen (charoite), Murun Massif · mineral · Permission required
- Sitarjevec mine, Litija · mineral · Prohibited / view only
- Slyudyanka (Sludyanka), Lake Baikal · mineral · Gray area
- Sofia district / Rhodope quartz, Bulgaria · crystal · Gray area
- Somaliland / eastern Somalia amber and gems · amber · Gray area
- Starodubskoye amber beach · amber · Open / legal
- Stolice antimony mine, Krupanj · mineral · Gray area
- Stratoni / Olympias, Chalkidiki · mineral · Prohibited / view only
- Suplja Stena cinnabar mine, Avala · mineral · Restricted
- Suplja Stijena Pb-Zn mine, Pljevlja · mineral · Restricted
- Sylhet / Jaflong (Bangladesh) river gravels · mineral · Permission required
- Talampaya canyon fossil beds · fossil · Prohibited / view only
- Tazheran massif · mineral · Restricted
- Tharsis Mine, Iberian Pyrite Belt · mineral · Gray area
- Tokaj Mountains opal / chalcedony · opal · Gray area
- Trebic moldavite strewn field (Moravia) · gem · Prohibited / view only
- Trebilcock / Trelaze slate, Maine-et-Loire · fossil · Gray area
- Trepca / Stari Trg (see Kosovo) · crystal · Prohibited / view only
- Trepca Mine, Stan Terg · crystal · Permission required
- Trepca district - Stan Terg mine dumps · crystal · Prohibited / view only
- Trgovska gora / Ljubija Fe, Croatia · mineral · Gray area
- Turt / Oas amethyst and agate · agate · Gray area
- Undory / Ulyanovsk marine reptile coast · fossil · Gray area
- Varutrask pegmatite, Skelleftea · crystal · Gray area
- Veliki Majdan Pb-Zn mine, Ljubovija · mineral · Restricted
- Volga River pyrite ammonites (Ulyanovsk / Gorodishchi) · fossil · Gray area
- Volodarsk-Volynskii (Volyn) pegmatites · gem · Prohibited / view only
- Volodarsk-Volynskyi (Khoroshiv) Topaz, Ukraine · gem · Prohibited / view only
- Vosges - Framont / Grandfontaine minerals, Bas-Rhin · mineral · Gray area
- Wadi Bani Khalid / Oman travertine · mineral · Gray area
- Warden Point / Isle of Sheppey (Sheppey) · fossil · Open / legal
- Weardale fluorite mines, County Durham · crystal · Permission required
- Weiselberg quarry, St. Wendel · mineral · Permission required
- Whitby / Saltwick Bay (Yorkshire coast) · fossil · Open / legal
- Wieliczka salt mine · mineral · Permission required
- Winterswijk Quarry, Netherlands · fossil · Permission required
- Wren's Nest National Nature Reserve (Dudley) · fossil · Prohibited / view only
- Wren's Nest, Dudley, England (Silurian) · fossil · Gray area
- Wrens Nest spoil / Wenlock Edge (Shropshire) · fossil · Gray area
- Writhlington / Radstock Coal Measures (Somerset) · fossil · Gray area
- Ylamaa spectrolite quarries · gem · Permission required
- Ytterby Mine, Resaro · crystal · Permission required
- Zajaca antimony mines · mineral · Gray area
- Zillertal (Rotenkopf/Hundskehle) garnet & clefts, Tyrol · crystal · Permission required
- Zinggenstock (Grimsel) rose fluorite locality, Bern · crystal · Permission required
- Zouerate / F'Derik iron (Mauritania) · mineral · Prohibited / view only
- Zrinski mine, Medvednica · mineral · Prohibited / view only
- Zvezdel Pb-Zn field, Momchilgrad · mineral · Gray area