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189 – Mines de Communay — Puits Espérance
Repurposed site - headframe and associated buildings
Restored coal mine headframe and public park on the former Puits Espérance site at Communay, with surviving pithead buildings and mining heritage displays.
156 – Fosse n° 5 des mines de Meurchin
Repurposed site - headframe and associated buildings
Former coal colliery at Billy-Berclau whose trellised-lattice headframe and extraction building, now a private residence, are listed as a monument historique and UNESCO World Heritage site.
179 – Fosse du Sarteau
Isolated headframe
Rare surviving nineteenth-century brick winding tower of the Compagnie des mines d'Anzin, classified as a monument historique and inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
67 – Fosse Ledoux
Isolated headframe
Former Compagnie d'Anzin hard coal colliery at Condé-sur-l'Escaut, now a natural space and UNESCO World Heritage site, retaining a single listed 1951 metal headframe beside the étangs de Chabaud-Latour.
152 – Fosse n° 13 bis des mines de Lens
Partial mine site - headframe and associated buildings
Former ventilation shaft of the Compagnie des mines de Lens whose intact reinforced-concrete headframe is a listed monument and UNESCO World Heritage site.
153 – Fosse n° 2 des mines de Flines
Repurposed site - headframe and associated buildings
Ruinous former coal colliery at Anhiers whose reinforced-concrete headframe and extraction buildings, protected as a monument historique and UNESCO World Heritage site, are undergoing private rehabilitation.
160 – Fosse n° 9–9 bis de Dourges
Museum site - headframe and associated buildings
UNESCO-listed former colliery at Oignies, now a classified monument and cultural centre with intact headframes and working machinery.
161 – Fosse n° 6 des mines de Lens
Partial mine site - headframe and associated buildings
Surviving listed headframe at Haisnes, the last concrete headframe of the Mines de Lens type, inscribed as a monument historique and UNESCO World Heritage site.
187 – Puits Hottinguer
Mine core
Unique classified coal mine headframe and tower complex at Épinac, now under long-term heritage restoration by the commune.
158 – Fosse n° 11–19 de Lens
Repurposed site - headframes and associated buildings
Former concentration colliery at Loos-en-Gohelle with a preserved metallic headframe, a concrete extraction tower, and Europe's tallest pair of twin spoil heaps, forming a major UNESCO World Heritage and cultural site.