Europe’s surviving mine headframe and winding tower sites

Sala Silvergruva's oldest surviving shaft, now serving as the visitor lift entrance to the historic mine complex.

Former lead-zinc ore shaft at Bad Grund, now a listed mining museum centred on a unique 47-metre hydro-compressor tower and preserved colliery buildings.

Active rock-salt mine and visitor experience at Bad Friedrichshall-Kochendorf, operating since 1899, with the historic König Wilhelm II headframe surviving above the shaft and a memorial exhibition to KZ Kochendorf below.

Protected uranium-mining shaft tower at Kővágószőlős in the Mecsek uranium mining district, representing Hungary’s former uranium ore industry.

Active coking coal mine in the Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa group, operating across two deposits with five shafts reaching beyond 1,000 metres depth.

Active coking coal mine in the Jastrzębie-Zdrój coalfield, formed by successive mergers of the historic Borynia and Zofiówka collieries within Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa.

Former concentration colliery at Loos-en-Gohelle with a preserved metallic headframe, a concrete extraction tower, and Europe's tallest pair of twin spoil heaps, forming a major UNESCO World Heritage and cultural site.

Former Cévennes coalfield site at La Grand-Combe with the preserved puits Ricard headframe, inscribed monument historique and home to the Maison du Mineur.

Closed open-cast talc mine in Sotkamo, Kainuu, whose flooded pit will eventually form a new lake.

Abandoned seven-storey concrete coal-washing plant at Blaye-les-Mines, a rare surviving lavoir in France, damaged by fire and standing derelict since 1997.