Europe’s surviving mine headframe and winding tower sites

Écomusée des mines de fer de Lorraine at Aumetz, preserving the listed 40-metre headframe and surface buildings of the iron ore mine Bassompierre, open to visitors as part of a two-site museum.

Former Lorraine iron-ore mine preserved as an open-access underground museum with 1.5 kilometres of authentic galleries, holding the label Musée de France.

Open coal mining museum in former Compagnie de Châtillon Commentry et Neuves Maisons workings at Noyant-d'Allier, retaining the rare early reinforced-concrete headframe designed by Eugène Freyssinet.

Closed siderite iron-ore mine at Nadabula, Rožňava, one of Slovakia's major iron-ore workings, active from the Middle Ages until 1993.

Closed brown coal and bauxite mine site at Nagyegyháza, opened under Hungary's Eocén programme and shut in 1989 after persistent karst water problems.

National Mining Museum Scotland at Lady Victoria Colliery, one of Europe's best-preserved Victorian collieries, a five-star visitor attraction.

Former hard coal mine shaft at Schwalbach, sunk as the Ostschacht in 1867 and renamed Ney-Schacht after the Saarland-born Marshal Michel Ney, with a circa 1924 Fachwerk headframe and listed 1927 electric winding engine surviving as denkmalgeschützte monum

Former coal mine shaft in Lebach-Falscheid, the last coal-winding shaft of the Saarland, whose 48-metre 1986/87 headframe — the heaviest ever erected in German mining — was demolished after filling of the shaft in 2020.

Closed twentieth-century silver and polymetallic mine shaft above Banská Štiavnica, with a surviving headframe tower visible at Šobov.

Former gold and silver mining shaft at Banská Štiavnica, now the centrepiece of the Banské múzeum v prírode open-air mining museum, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.