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Czech Republic
Česká republika
The Czech republic is a country in the heart of Europe and a member of EU. It consists of thirteen regions (kraje) and one capital city (hlavní město; Prague) with regional status since 1 January 2000. The older seventy-three districts (okresy, singular okres) are still recognized and remain the seats of various branches of state administration.
Except for a few places like National parks and National protected sites, collecting is not restricted. But by law you need a permit from the Mining Bureau (Báňský úřad) to access ANY mines, shafts or adits, including those medieval and long abandoned! The law about accessing quarries is a bit uncertain and generally it's best to ask the owner. Some quarries don't allow access officially but wouldn't mind if you go there on weekends (if the quarry is not guarded by a security agency). Best you could do about collecting in Czech Republic is to try to contact local collectors, in most cases country folks don't speak English and only a little German. And locating many sites is very difficult if you don't know where to go.
There's no limit on accessing meadows, fields (if there are no crops of course) and forests - they must be public accessible by the law and the owner is not allowed to kick you out if you do no harm. Only limit about collecting is that you are not supposed to damage plants or trees. On some certain sites there are diggings in forests, which is of course illegal. If you go there with hammer and collect, it's not a problem, but it's not the wisest idea to dig there and be caught by the forestry service.
Many old Czech specimens, especially from foreign collections have still German locality names. These names are no more valid or used and some are very difficult to recognize under original Czech names. Also please do not add these localities into the Mindat database - it causes duplicity of many sites. Rather add them as a synonym (in parentheses) to the proper named locality.
Mineral List
Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities1463 entries listed. 1078 valid minerals. 105 type localities (valid minerals). 3 type localities (others).
Localities in this Region
The above list contains all mineral locality references listed on mindat.org. This does not claim to be a complete list. If you know of more minerals from this site, please register so you can add to our database. This locality information is for reference purposes only. You should never attempt to
visit any sites listed in mindat.org without first ensuring that you have the permission of the land and/or mineral rights holders
for access and that you are aware of all safety precautions necessary.
References
Pauliš P. (2000): Petr Pauliš: Nejzajímavější mineralogická naleziště Čech. Kuttna, Kutná Hora, 112 pp. [Průvodce po 60 mineralogických lokalitách]
Szakáll, S., Ed. (2002): Minerals of the Carpathians. Christian Weise Verlag, Munich, Germany, 480 pp.
Pauliš P. (2003): Nejzajímavější mineralogická naleziště Čech II. Kuttna, Kutná Hora, 136 pp. [Průvodce po 72 mineralogických lokalitách]
Petr Pauliš, Stanislav Kopecký, Pavel Černý (2007): Uranové minerály České republiky a jejich naleziště = Uranmineralien der Tschechische Republik und ihre Fundstellen. Kutná Hora: Kuttna, xx pp.
Hyršl, J. & Korbel, P. (2008): Tschechien & Slowakei. Edition Schloss Freudenstein, Bode Verlag, Haltern, 576 pp. (in German)
Szakáll, S., Ed. (2002): Minerals of the Carpathians. Christian Weise Verlag, Munich, Germany, 480 pp.
Pauliš P. (2003): Nejzajímavější mineralogická naleziště Čech II. Kuttna, Kutná Hora, 136 pp. [Průvodce po 72 mineralogických lokalitách]
Petr Pauliš, Stanislav Kopecký, Pavel Černý (2007): Uranové minerály České republiky a jejich naleziště = Uranmineralien der Tschechische Republik und ihre Fundstellen. Kutná Hora: Kuttna, xx pp.
Hyršl, J. & Korbel, P. (2008): Tschechien & Slowakei. Edition Schloss Freudenstein, Bode Verlag, Haltern, 576 pp. (in German)
External Links
http://www.mineralos.cz/lokality.htm [localities]
http://www.geology.cz/extranet-eng [Czech Geological Survey]
http://www.geofond.cz/cz/domu [Česká geologická služba - Geofond]
http://www.minerals-of-the-carpathians.eu/ [Eastern part of Czech Republic]
http://www.hornictvi.info/histhor/histhor.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subdivisions_of_the_Czech_Republic#Administrative_divisions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Districts_of_the_Czech_Republic
Note: Old German names of Czech localities may be found here (if not given in the database).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_exonyms_for_places_in_the_Czech_Republic
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_deutscher_Bezeichnungen_tschechischer_Orte
http://www.geology.cz/extranet-eng [Czech Geological Survey]
http://www.geofond.cz/cz/domu [Česká geologická služba - Geofond]
http://www.minerals-of-the-carpathians.eu/ [Eastern part of Czech Republic]
http://www.hornictvi.info/histhor/histhor.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subdivisions_of_the_Czech_Republic#Administrative_divisions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Districts_of_the_Czech_Republic
Note: Old German names of Czech localities may be found here (if not given in the database).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_exonyms_for_places_in_the_Czech_Republic
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_deutscher_Bezeichnungen_tschechischer_Orte
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