Europe’s surviving mine headframe and winding tower sites

Former Cévennes coalfield site at La Grand-Combe with the preserved puits Ricard headframe, inscribed monument historique and home to the Maison du Mineur.

Abandoned seven-storey concrete coal-washing plant at Blaye-les-Mines, a rare surviving lavoir in France, damaged by fire and standing derelict since 1997.

Former Lorraine coalfield colliery site at Freyming-Merlebach with two standing headframes, the concrete puits Cuvelette Sud listed as a monument historique.

Preserved former colliery at Saint-Avold with a standing listed gantry headframe, the only example of its type in the Lorraine coalfield, maintained on an intact site.

Former coal-mining basin in Saône-et-Loire whose surviving masonry headframe at the puits des Fourneaux stands as an interpreted heritage site.

Former Lorraine coalfield site at Folschviller with the unique hammer-form steel extraction tower of puits no. 1, inscribed monument historique and reacquired by the commune in 2022.

Former anthracite mine in Puy-de-Dôme, now home to the Minérail heritage museum on the preserved puits Saint-Louis pithead.

Former Lorraine iron-ore mine at Crusnes whose surviving masonry headframe of puits no 2 is the last stone headframe standing in the Lorraine iron-ore field.

Former lignite mining site in the Haut-Minervois, associated with the hamlet of Babio and marked by a surviving industrial chimney at La Caunette.

Former Lorraine iron-ore mine whose unfloodable hillside galleries remain accessible, managed by the Association d'Histoire Industrielle with working period machinery.