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130 – Mines de Gardanne — Puits Z
Repurposed site
Former lignite mine near Gardanne with preserved headframes of puits Z and puits Yvon Morandat, now a business and enterprise site.
197 – Mine du Rossignol
Museum site
Former underground fluorite mine at Chaillac in the Indre, closed in 1997 and remediated; the commune hosts a mineralogy museum drawing on the site's collections.
66 – Fosse Sabatier
Isolated headframe
Former Compagnie d'Anzin hard coal colliery at Raismes, now a forested natural space and UNESCO World Heritage site, retaining the listed headframe of puits n°2 amid wooded terrils.
143 – Siège Simon — Puits Simon IV
Repurposed site - headframe and associated buildings
The surviving headframe of Puits Simon no 4, a ventilation shaft of the Siège Simon, now property of the commune of Schœneck and repurposed as a local television transmitter.
59 – Fosse Arenberg
Repurposed site
Fully intact former coal colliery at Wallers, now an active audiovisual production hub and UNESCO World Heritage site, preserving three headframes spanning a century of mining.
63 – Mine de La Bouble — Puits n° 2
Isolated headframe
Surviving 22-metre metal headframe of the Société des Mines de la Bouble at Youx, freely accessible in a rural setting as a visible remnant of the Saint-Éloy coal basin.
188 – Mine de Blanzy — Puits Saint-Claude
Museum site - reconstructed headframe
Active mining museum on the authentic Puits Saint-Claude site, with the only operational headframe in France, open to visitors.
184 – Mine Saint-Nicolas de Varangéville
Operational site
France's last active underground salt mine, extracting rock salt at 160 metres depth near Nancy, open to guided public visits since 2018.
192 – Mine de Villaret — Puits du Villaret
Partial mine site - headframe and associated buildings
Preserved post-war anthracite headframe at Susville, labelled Patrimoine en Isère, with surviving pithead buildings and miners' housing on the former Villaret colliery site.