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.

Ruinous headframe and flooded open-cast pit of the former Metsämonttu zinc mine, a satellite workings of the Aijala copper mine in Kisko, Salo.

Surviving headframe and processing buildings of the former Aijala copper mine, standing in the quiet village of Aijala in Salo, southwest Finland.

Preserved headframe and winding engine at the Ármin-akna site, now home to Hungary's first open-air industrial museum in the Csingervölgy valley near Ajka.

Former hard coal mine shaft in the Neunkirchen coalfield, part of the Grube König-Dechen complex, closed 1968, with the site cleared in the 1970s and the former Allenfeldschacht area now part of a commercial and residential zone in Neunkirchen.

Former hard coal mine shaft in Saarbrücken-Burbach, sunk 1954 to serve the Alsbachfeld of Grube Luisenthal, scene of the catastrophic 1962 explosion killing 299 miners, and demolished after the closure of the Luisenthal complex.

Former concentration colliery at Oignies-Libercourt housing a museum, a mine-image training gallery, and a preserved steam winding engine, all listed as UNESCO World Heritage.

Former pyrite mine at Saint-Pierre-la-Palud with preserved puits Perret headframe, now an open mining museum and mineralogy collection.

Former Nièvre coalfield at La Machine, with the preserved puits des Glénons headframe open as a Musée de France mining museum.

Deepest shaft of the Kremnica gold and silver mining field, located at Kremnické Bane and connected to all three of the district's historic drainage adits.