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Ritchie County Geology and Rockhounding Research
county bedrock, fossils, coal/mineral occurrences, quarries/mines, stream gravels and land-management context · Ritchie
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Roane County Geology and Rockhounding Research
county bedrock, fossils, coal/mineral occurrences, quarries/mines, stream gravels and land-management context · Roane
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New River Gravel Research
quartz, sandstone and river-rounded cobbles · Southern WV
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Monongahela National Forest — Casual Rockhounding Context
common rocks, minerals and common fossils where locally authorized · Statewide
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55-County Completion Matrix
county coverage · Statewide
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Abandoned Mine Safety Override
abandoned mine hazards · Statewide
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Active Mine/Quarry Firewall
active mines and quarries · Statewide
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Address Serialization Regression
data quality · Statewide
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Canonical SQLite Contract
database integrity · Statewide
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Cave/Paleontology Protection Firewall
cave formations and fossils · Statewide
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Collect-Now Firewall
search intent · Statewide
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Commercial Operator Currentness Gate
private attractions · Statewide
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Commercial Sluice ≠ Native Field Collecting
managed gem-mining rough · Statewide
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Dynamic Closure Gate
closures and weather · Statewide
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Entity/Source Dedupe Contract
data quality · Statewide
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Evidence Passport Requirement
trust axes · Statewide
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Fossil Material-Class Firewall
fossils · Statewide
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Geology Occurrence ≠ Permission
geologic occurrences · Statewide
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Historic Locality Coordinate Suppression
historic mineral/fossil localities · Statewide
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Maintenance-Only After Completion
lifecycle · Statewide
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Monongahela Exact-Parcel Gate
national forest rockhounding · Statewide
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NPS No-Recreational-Collecting Override
NPS natural resources · Statewide
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Portable Builder Contract
reproducibility · Statewide
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Private Property Permission First
private land access · Statewide
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Roadcut/ROW Firewall
roadcuts · Statewide
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Scientific Permit Does Not Grant Land Access
scientific collecting · Statewide
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Source Freshness Gate
source management · Statewide
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State Forest No-Removal Precedence
state-forest geology · Statewide
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State Park No-Removal Precedence
state-park geology · Statewide
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Surface Access ≠ Mineral Rights
split estates and mineral rights · Statewide
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USFS Wilderness/Special-Area Override
wilderness resources · Statewide
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Water Access ≠ Material Removal
streams and rivers · Statewide
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West Virginia State Completion Guardrail
completion governance · Statewide
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Zero Specimen-Pin Invariant
map safety · Statewide
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West Virginia Active Mines & Quarries — Operator-Only Control
coal, limestone, sandstone and industrial minerals · Statewide
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West Virginia Caves — Paleontological/Formation Protection
cave formations, fossils and paleontological sites · Statewide
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West Virginia Roadcuts — No Implied Collecting Authority
roadside geologic exposures · Statewide
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West Virginia State Forests — Rock/Mineral No-Removal Control
state-forest geological resources · Statewide
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West Virginia State Parks — Rock/Mineral No-Removal Control
state-park rocks, minerals and geological features · Statewide
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Historic West Virginia Iron Ore Research
hematite, siderite and historic iron-furnace geology · Statewide