Europe’s surviving mine headframe and winding tower sites

Ruinous headframe and flooded open-cast pit of the former Metsämonttu zinc mine, a satellite workings of the Aijala copper mine in Kisko, Salo.

Surviving headframe and processing buildings of the former Aijala copper mine, standing in the quiet village of Aijala in Salo, southwest Finland.

Finland's largest underground mine and the EU's sole chromite producer, operating at Elijärvi in Keminmaa with a prominent hoisting tower on surface.

Surviving early-twentieth-century mine headframe at the closed Förby limestone quarry in Särkisalo, part of a nationally significant cultural environment.

Disused 45-metre lead mine headframe at Korsnäs, Ostrobothnia, now the centrepiece of a heritage visitor area.

Closed open-cast talc mine in Sotkamo, Kainuu, whose flooded pit will eventually form a new lake.

Preserved headframe and flooded open-cast workings at Finland's oldest copper mine, a nationally significant heritage site in Salo.

Europe's largest gold mine, an active underground operation near Kiistala in northern Finnish Lapland, operated by Agnico Eagle.

Prominent mine headframe at the active Tytyri limestone mine in Lohja, adjoining a public underground heritage attraction.

Closed open-cast pit and demolished headframe tower of the Vehka area within the former Kotalahti nickel-copper mine, Leppävirta.