Europe’s surviving mine headframe and winding tower sites

Former concentration colliery at Oignies-Libercourt housing a museum, a mine-image training gallery, and a preserved steam winding engine, all listed as UNESCO World Heritage.

Former pyrite mine at Saint-Pierre-la-Palud with preserved puits Perret headframe, now an open mining museum and mineralogy collection.

Former Nièvre coalfield at La Machine, with the preserved puits des Glénons headframe open as a Musée de France mining museum.

Former Anjou slate-quarrying site at La Pouëze with a surviving wooden headframe over puits no. 3, inscribed as monument historique in 1999, set within a heritage landscape of spoil heaps and open-cast workings.

A preserved metal headframe from the former Sainte-Marie coal workings, now standing beside the mairie of Blaye-les-Mines as a local industrial heritage monument.

Active underground research laboratory operated by ANDRA at 490 metres depth to study geological disposal of radioactive waste, supporting the Cigéo project.

Former Alsace potash mine at Pulversheim, the only preserved carreau of the Bassin potassique, open for guided visits by the association Groupe Rodolphe with two restored headframes and extraction machines.

Former Lorraine hard coal complex at Petite-Rosselle, now the Parc Explor Wendel, France's largest preserved coal mining site and an open museum with three headframes and two wash houses.

France's largest coal mining museum, the Centre historique minier, occupies the preserved carreau of the former fosse Delloye at Lewarde, a UNESCO World Heritage site open to visitors year-round.

Inscribed nineteenth-century coal mine pithead at Prades, Ardèche, with a rare masonry headframe of 1900 surviving intact on a largely unaltered carreau.