Mines which can be visited underground
WHS containing mines (excluding replicas) which can be visited underground. Indicate name/location within WHS and mineral mined. Also means of entry/exit where known.
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Banska Stiavnica | Copper. Bartlomej Pit (walk in/out), Glanzenberg Mining tunnel (steps) | |
| Blaenavon Industrial Landscape | Coal. Big Pit (Original "Cage") | |
| Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape | Tin, "Poldark Mine" (Originally "Wheal Roots Mine" 18th C workings opened to the public as a "tourist attraction") | |
| Falun Great Copper Mountain | Great Pit - copper - can be visited on a guided tour, via stairs down (67m) and there's an elevator up | |
| Fertö/Neusiedlersee | Fertőrákosi Kőfejtő, a limestone mine | |
| Guanajuato | Silver. Valenciana Mine (stairs) . | |
| Hallstatt-Dachstein | Hallstatt Salt Mine: "Two long miners' slides take you deep underground to the mystic salt lake. A mine train returns you safely and comfortably back into the daylight." | |
| Heritage of Mercury | Mercury ,Almaden (elevator in, railway out); Idrija part in Slovenia - mercury mine accessible with guide on foot. | |
| Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine | Silver, Ryugenju Mabu mine shaft (walk along old tunnel) | |
| Krzemionki prehistoric flint mines | Flint / via a spiral staircase | |
| Las Medulas | Gold, Gallery of Ortellan (walk in along Roman tunnel) | |
| Mammoth Cave | "Thousands of years of occupation by bats who deposited guano in the soil of Mammoth Cave and other area caves made the cave dirt rich with a compound called calcium nitrate. Calcium nitrate is a mineral that can be mixed with other high potassium materials to create potassium nitrate, or saltpetre, as it is more commonly known. Saltpetre is an principal ingredient in black gunpowder." | |
| Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge | Hřebečná tin mine (via stairs), and possibly others | |
| Mining Sites of Wallonia | Coal. Blegny Mine (cage) | |
| Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes | Flint. (Vertical ladder) | |
| Ombilin Coal Mining Heritage of Sawahlunto | Part of core zone in Sawahlunto town is Museum Situs Lubang Tambang Mbah Suro. It is possible to walk for around 500 meters underground. There are plans to extend that. | |
| Ouro Preto | Gold. Mina do Chico Rey - accessible on foot, walk in/out. | |
| Potosi | Silver. Cerro Rico (walk in/out) | |
| Rammelsberg and Goslar | Zink/Lead, Rammelsberg | |
| Roșia Montană | At Rosia Montana Gold Mining Museum | |
| Røros | Olav's Mine | |
| Sado Island Gold Mines | Sohdayu Tunnel Mine: A 30-minute tour recreates the mining experience of the Edo period (1603-1867) with dolls and other tools in the remnants of hand-dug tunnels. | |
| Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine | Lead/Silver. (modern elevator); Black Trout Adit (Sztolnia Czarnego Pstrąga) - different part of the site - can be reached by stairs and an underground river by boat | |
| The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales | Llechwedd Slayte caverns | |
| Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines | Salt. Wieliczka (Tourist route - normally stairs in, Miners route - elevator) and Bochnia Mine (Cage) |
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