Europe’s surviving mine headframe and winding tower sites

Former Aveyron coalfield at Decazeville with a preserved headframe at La Découverte, the rehabilitated open-cast site now open to the public as a heritage landscape.

Former coal colliery at Liévin whose surviving trellised-lattice headframe of 1923 stands within an industrial zone as a listed monument and UNESCO World Heritage site.

Preserved metal headframe and chambre chaude at Auzat-la-Combelle, the only two surviving structures from the La Combelle colliery site.

Former Nord-Pas-de-Calais colliery at Évin-Malmaison with a preserved post-nationalisation steel headframe and the cité-jardin Cornuault, both inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.

Former Ardennes slate quarry with surviving 25-metre metal headframe of 1961, currently undergoing restoration funded by the Mission Bern and the Fondation du Patrimoine.

Former coal colliery at Liévin whose restored trellised-lattice headframe of 1922 stands as a listed monument and UNESCO World Heritage site.

Former potash mine at Wittenheim with a listed 65-metre steel headframe, now occupied by K+S Kali France for potassium chloride processing.

Former principal coal shaft of the Saint-Étienne coalfield, now an open Parc-Musée de la Mine classified as a monument historique, preserving the 35-metre metal chevalement and pithead buildings.

Former Anzin colliery at Valenciennes whose 1920 reinforced-concrete headframe survives isolated in a public park as a listed monument and UNESCO World Heritage site.

Former Lorraine rock-salt mine at Einville-au-Jard with surviving metal headframe, puits, and underground galleries maintained in preservation by the Compagnie des Salins du Midi et des Salines de l'Est.