Europe’s surviving mine headframe and winding tower sites

Former Nord-Pas-de-Calais colliery at Évin-Malmaison with a preserved post-nationalisation steel headframe and the cité-jardin Cornuault, both inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.

Former Ardennes slate quarry with surviving 25-metre metal headframe of 1961, currently undergoing restoration funded by the Mission Bern and the Fondation du Patrimoine.

Former coal colliery at Liévin whose restored trellised-lattice headframe of 1922 stands as a listed monument and UNESCO World Heritage site.

Former potash mine at Wittenheim with a listed 65-metre steel headframe, now occupied by K+S Kali France for potassium chloride processing.

Grade II listed Koepe winder headstocks and Modernist powerhouse, the tallest surviving colliery headgear in England, standing on a cleared former colliery site in Nottinghamshire.

Former Ruhr hard coal colliery whose listed headframes at Schacht 3 and Schacht 4 and associated machine house survive as heritage monuments in a public park and business area in Herten-Langenbochum.

Former anthracite colliery in the Aachen coalfield, with a listed 1934 headframe at Schacht 3 now serving as a visitor mine and industrial monument.

A shaft site of the Himmelfahrt Fundgrube, the former Freiberger silver mine now operating as a UNESCO-listed teaching and visitor mine under the TU Bergakademie Freiberg.

Former principal coal shaft of the Saint-Étienne coalfield, now an open Parc-Musée de la Mine classified as a monument historique, preserving the 35-metre metal chevalement and pithead buildings.

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