Europe’s surviving mine headframe and winding tower sites

Unique spån-clad timber headframe of 1902 by architect Carl Westman over Adelswärdska schaktet at Bersbo, recently restored and open for heritage visits.

Sweden's oldest surviving concrete headframe, standing abandoned since 1964 in the iron ore landscape of Norberg.

Restored nineteenth-century timber headframe over Storgruvan at Bersbo, a copper mining heritage site near Åtvidaberg open for guided visits.

Silver mine shaft at Sala Silvergruva bearing Sweden's oldest surviving headframe, now open to visitors after recent restoration.

Preserved mid-19th-century Creutz shaft headframe at Falun Mine, the only surviving historic shaft head at the UNESCO World Heritage copper mine complex.

Seventeenth-century silver mine shaft at Sala Silvergruva with its 1858 headframe, forming part of a listed heritage complex open year-round for guided underground visits.

Surviving iron mine headframe structure in the Grängesberg mining area, part of the former Bergslagen iron ore field closed in 1989.

Surviving pump shaft and 1842 headframe building at Sala Silvergruva, an active heritage mine and visitor attraction.

World's largest underground iron ore mine, actively operated by LKAB at Kiirunavaara in Swedish Lapland, with an underground visitor centre at 540 metres depth.

Preserved iron-ore mine headframe at Kärrgruvan, Norberg, standing over a 180-metre shaft within a heritage mining landscape.