Europe’s surviving mine headframe and winding tower sites

Active underground research laboratory operated by ANDRA at 490 metres depth to study geological disposal of radioactive waste, supporting the Cigéo project.

Ruined communist-era forced labour camp and copper mine at Spaç, a designated national monument in advanced decay, accessible as a dark tourism site.

Former Kempen coal mine at Winterslag, Genk, now the C-mine creative and cultural campus with surviving protected headframes and mining museum.

Grade II listed former engine house of an 1850s coal mine, later converted to a pumping station serving the Leicestershire coalfield until 1986, now on private land in Swannington.

Former Saarland hard coal mine with the world's first reinforced-concrete hammerkopf winding tower, a listed engineering monument.

Former coal colliery in Overton, West Yorkshire, now home to the National Coal Mining Museum for England, with Grade II* listed Victorian pithead structures and active underground tours.

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

Former Alsace potash mine at Pulversheim, the only preserved carreau of the Bassin potassique, open for guided visits by the association Groupe Rodolphe with two restored headframes and extraction machines.

Former Lorraine hard coal complex at Petite-Rosselle, now the Parc Explor Wendel, France's largest preserved coal mining site and an open museum with three headframes and two wash houses.

Surviving steel headframe of the Pozo San Fernando, a remarkable counterweight-extraction colliery set in upland woodland near Orillés in Aller, Asturias.