Europe’s surviving mine headframe and winding tower sites

National Tramway Museum and open-air heritage village occupying a former Victorian limestone quarry on the edge of the Derbyshire hills.

Former Water of Ayr hone stone mine at Dalmore on the River Ayr, a whetstone quarry and underground mine closed around 2003.

Former hard coal ventilation shaft in Saarbrücken-Klarenthal, with its 1908 Fachwerkgerüst headframe — the oldest surviving in the Saarland — the 1904 Rateau ventilators, and the brick machine house all preserved as listed monuments.

Dolaucothi Gold Mines: the only known Roman gold mine in Britain, now a National Trust heritage attraction open for underground guided tours in Carmarthenshire.

Former coal mine at Kerkrade and the oldest industrial colliery in the Netherlands, with Schacht Nulland surviving as a publicly accessible heritage monument and museum.

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.

Former Anzin colliery at Valenciennes whose 1920 reinforced-concrete headframe survives isolated in a public park as a listed monument and UNESCO World Heritage site.

Active open-pit gold mine at Ada Tepe, south of Krumovgrad, on the site of Europe's oldest known gold workings.

Former hard coal mine in Püttlingen-Köllerbach, closed 1963, whose listed ensemble of headframe over Schacht II, Fördermaschinenhaus, Zechenhaus of 1910, and Kompressorenhalle survives as a denkmalgeschütztes Gewerbegebiet and public green space.

Former pyrite, baryte, and zinc ore mining site in Lennestadt, Sauerland, in the area of the historically significant Meggen–Halberbracht mining district.