Europe’s surviving mine headframe and winding tower sites

A protected masonry headframe and former iron-ore shaft at Saint-Priest, on the outskirts of Privas, representing one of the clearest surviving monuments of the Privas iron-mining district.

Former anthracite mine at La Motte-d'Aveillans preserved as the Musée La Mine Image, with restored galleries open to visitors.

Unique surviving reinforced concrete headframe of 1943 at Épagne, Saint-Maurice-des-Noues, standing 25 metres over the flooded puits Saint-Michel of the former concession d'Épagne in the Vendée coalfield.

Former Lorraine coalfield siège at Petite-Rosselle where the first Lorraine coal was raised in 1856, with the puits Saint-Charles no. 1 headframe preserved by the commune.

Surviving metal headframe of the puits Saint-Aignan N°2 at Renazé, one of three remaining chevalements in the Mayenne slate basin, standing on the former primary extraction site of the Renazé ardoisières.

Coalfield site in the Cévennes houiller bearing a rare surviving masonry headframe dating from 1867.

Former iron ore mine site at Palmas-d'Aveyron; specific site records are limited in currently accessible sources.

Former Haute-Saône coalfield with a preserved concrete headframe at puits Sainte-Marie, inscribed as a monument historique, and the musée de la mine Marcel-Maulini.

The listed carreau of Puits Simon no 1 and no 2 at Forbach, a deteriorating but substantially intact Lorraine colliery complex bearing the oldest surviving headframe in the Bassin Houiller Lorrain.

Former lignite shaft at Gardanne, now a 14-hectare innovation and enterprise campus anchored by the conserved 50-metre extraction tower of the puits Yvon Morandat, the deepest mine in the Provence coalfield.