Europe’s surviving mine headframe and winding tower sites

Former Nord-Pas-de-Calais coalfield site with a preserved 1921 headframe and 1920 winding engine, listed as monument historique and UNESCO World Heritage.

Former asphalte mine shaft at Saint-Jean-de-Maruéjols-et-Avéjan; the puits Berry site has been acquired by the commune pending a heritage valorisation project.

Former iron ore extraction site at Nyoiseau bearing a 57-metre reinforced concrete extraction tower alongside surviving annexe buildings, the last shaft active in the Haut-Anjou iron basin until 1985.

Former iron ore extraction shaft at Nyoiseau bearing its original 42-metre metal headframe, winding engine house, and ore treatment buildings intact, forming part of the most complete iron mining complex in western France.

Former gold and polymetallic mine at Villanière retaining the puits Castan headframe, a 50-metre metal structure standing as a prominent landmark in the Orbiel valley.

Former iron ore mine at Soumont-Saint-Quentin with surviving water tower and buildings on the main carreau; the Carreau du Livet at Saint-Germain-le-Vasson is preserved as the Musée Mémoire de Fer.

Former ochre mine at Gargas, now an open guided-heritage attraction with some forty kilometres of surviving underground galleries.

Former bauxite mine site at Ollières in the Brignoles basin of the Var, with residual underground workings and surface remains from a sector that formed part of France's dominant bauxite production territory for a century.

Inscribed coal mine site now operating as the musée-mine départemental de Cagnac-les-Mines, with a surviving trellised steel headframe and steam-era winding engine.

Restored metal headframe of the puits de Champ-Robert at Saint-Barthélemy-d'Anjou, a surviving chevalement from the Fresnais ardoisière sector of the Trélazé basin situated at the boundary of the commune.