Europe’s surviving mine headframe and winding tower sites

Restored pine-timber mine headframe from the Mina Marquesita, displayed in the Plaza del Liceo in La Unión, Murcia, as a heritage monument to the region's lead and silver mining past.

Classified reinforced concrete headframe of 1935 standing at the former Couto Mineiro of São Pedro da Cova, now part of an active mining heritage museum complex.

Former anthracite colliery preserved as a museum, housing the largest working winding engine in Wales and two original lattice steel headframes, currently closed pending remedial works.

France's largest coal mining museum, the Centre historique minier, occupies the preserved carreau of the former fosse Delloye at Lewarde, a UNESCO World Heritage site open to visitors year-round.

Inscribed nineteenth-century coal mine pithead at Prades, Ardèche, with a rare masonry headframe of 1900 surviving intact on a largely unaltered carreau.

Former coal colliery near Stoke-on-Trent, Britain's largest surviving deep mine site, designated a Scheduled Monument with Grade II* listed structures; currently in very poor condition with active conservation efforts.

Active underground copper-gold mine in the Panagyurishte district, operated by Dundee Precious Metals as one of the largest and most productive gold-copper mines in Europe.

Former Aveyron coalfield at Decazeville with a preserved headframe at La Découverte, the rehabilitated open-cast site now open to the public as a heritage landscape.

Former coal colliery at Liévin whose surviving trellised-lattice headframe of 1923 stands within an industrial zone as a listed monument and UNESCO World Heritage site.

Preserved metal headframe and chambre chaude at Auzat-la-Combelle, the only two surviving structures from the La Combelle colliery site.