Europe’s surviving mine headframe and winding tower sites

Former Lorraine coalfield colliery site at Freyming-Merlebach with two standing headframes, the concrete puits Cuvelette Sud listed as a monument historique.

Preserved former colliery at Saint-Avold with a standing listed gantry headframe, the only example of its type in the Lorraine coalfield, maintained on an intact site.

Former coal-mining basin in Saône-et-Loire whose surviving masonry headframe at the puits des Fourneaux stands as an interpreted heritage site.

Former Lorraine coalfield site at Folschviller with the unique hammer-form steel extraction tower of puits no. 1, inscribed monument historique and reacquired by the commune in 2022.

Historic gold and silver mine shaft at Štiavnické Bane, site of the world's first water-column pumping machine, within the Banská Štiavnica UNESCO World Heritage area.

National Trust site on the Tin Coast housing the world's only Cornish beam engine still in steam on its original site, with guided tours of the 1919 man engine disaster shaft.

Former Thyssen hard coal mine closed 2005, with a surviving listed headframe and workshop complex now operating as a creative quarter and park.

Former calcite and fluorspar mine near Youlgreave in Derbyshire, with surviving twentieth-century headgear and winding engine house; underground extraction ceased in 1981 while surface processing continues.

Active underground zinc and lead mine near Stråssa in Lindesbergs Municipality, operating since the mid-1990s.

Former Lewis Merthyr Colliery now operating as Rhondda Heritage Park, preserving the oldest surviving headframes in Wales and offering underground guided tours.